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SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
A secluded mountain resort, 10 friends, 1 murderer. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you solve various mysteries throughout the night. Will you be able to reach the truth and uncover the culprit’s identity? Or will your deductions lead you to blame someone completely innocent...?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“An incredibly charming detective game, which has some surprising twists and turns along the way in addition to some rather impressive character work. I seriously was impressed with some of the red herrings and bad ending choices, as they are all set up and seem like realistic…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
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10th Anniversary & SHINRAI Saku Released!
On this day, exactly ten years ago, we released SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair, our very first visual novel. And today, in celebration of that, we’re excited to finally share with you our latest proj
Detective Fest & SHINRAI Saku Update
Since we're at the beginning of a brand-new year and Steam decided to kick it off with its Detective Fest , to which both SHINRAI and GENBA no Kizuna were invited, it felt like a good time to type up
New Project: SHINRAI Saku - Blooming Beyond Despair
If you've been following us on social media or kept an eye on our development blog , you probably already know that we've been eagerly at work on our next visual novel project for a while now. But giv
GENBA no Kizuna Released!
As of yesterday, our new murder mystery GENBA no Kizuna is out! The OST is also available here ! It has been a long and arduous development journey and it honestly still hasn't fully sunk in that, at
GENBA Release Date & Upcoming SHINRAI Bugfix
https://i.imgur.com/q0uHShx.jpeg That's right, it's official: our next murder mystery visual novel GENBA no Kizuna will, at long last, release on August 26 (the very day of SHINRAI 's anniversary) at
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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, Indie |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Detective · Investigation · Mystery · Interactive Fiction · Indie · Adventure · Female Protagonist · LGBTQ+ · Horror · Crime · Blood (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Official site | https://gosatsu.com/bbd/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: XP Processor: 1Ghz Memory: 512 MB RAM Storage: 340 MB available space