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Murder on the Marine Express
A mystery visual novel taking place aboard the underwater train Marine Express. Follow student Ranko Togawa on her quest to find the culprit on the murder of an accompanying teacher... with lots of surprises along the way!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“nice short mystery”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
5 Years of Mysteries with Ranko Togawa!
Believe it or not, it's been five years since we released Murder on the Marine Express . Not that we've been awfully prolific during that time, we know; however, we've managed to bring the game to eve
Christmas equals mystery in this new Ranko Togawa case!
Hi everyone! Today we launched the page for a new Ranko Togawa adventure: The Seven Bad Apples . This Christmas-themed side story connects the games Murder on the Marine Express and The Girl Who Wasn'
The page for The Girl Who Wasn't There is live
Hi everyone, It's been quite a while. Finally, we can officially present our new project: The Girl Who Wasn't There . We've been looking forward to show it! This new adventure of Ranko and Astrid will
Introducing the next installment of The Mysteries of Ranko Togawa!
Hi everyone! It's been a while since our last post, but today we come with a big announcement: the new installment of The Mysteries of Ranko Togawa is already in production! This sequel, with the titl
The definitive version with new languages is finally here!
Hi everyone, It's been quite a while since the last update, but we can finally present Murder on the Marine Express in its final version. This update contains all the changes introduced for the recent
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Detective · Female Protagonist · Pixel Graphics · Mystery · Comedy · Story Rich · Anime · Investigation · Drama · Text-Based · Linear (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, French, Japanese |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/10 Processor: Pentium III 800MHz Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: 128MB DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 200 MB available space