- April 24, 2025
- Shadow Glove
- 5h median play time
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!
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About Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! is a single player platformer game with mystery and anime themes. It was developed by Shadow Glove and was released on April 24, 2025. It received neutral reviews from players.
Story After your father’s passing, you inherit the apartment he left behind. Then one day, a mysterious man appears with a warning for you—the new landlord: "There are Yokai living among the residents in your apartment building." From that moment on, your journey to uncover the cleverly disguised Yokai begins. Overview "Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!" A social dedu…
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- The game offers a heartwarming story with endearing characters and emotional moments that engage players.
- Innovative deduction gameplay that allows using any dialogue as evidence and intertwines puzzle solving with character understanding.
- Art and character design are appealing, including well-done portraits and chibis, complemented by solid English translation.
- Gameplay mechanics can be confusing and clunky, with unclear requirements for accusations and counterintuitive evidence star ratings.
- Some plot elements and logic are inconsistent or unbelievable, such as why characters don’t straightforwardly confront suspects despite game lore.
- The pacing becomes tedious after the first chapter, with forced, unnatural dialogue and a linear writing style that reduces immersion.
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18 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay introduces an innovative deduction mechanic centered on identifying lies from suspects who cannot lie themselves, offering a fresh twist each chapter. While the premise and initial chapters are engaging, later sections become tedious and frustrating due to obtuse mechanics and an overreliance on exonerating suspects rather than actively identifying yokai. Overall, the gameplay serves more as a narrative vehicle, with some players finding it weaker compared to the story and character elements.
“It takes a spin on deduction gameplay by allowing players to use any dialogue as evidence (referred to as "memo" in the game).”
“The final chapter made good use of the gameplay mechanics, and finally connected them to the resident relationship-building in an interesting way.”
“The gameplay felt pretty fresh, with a new mechanic or twist being introduced each chapter.”
“Yokai Landlord has a great premise but squanders it with frustrating gameplay and unremarkable writing.”
“Unfortunately, I found the gameplay mechanics that you must use to flush out the yokai both frustratingly obtuse and painfully boring.”
“It promises an exciting hunt to nail down yokai, but really most of the gameplay is waiting for the humans to say the one statement that definitely proves they are human, given that yokai cannot lie.”
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Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! is a platformer game with mystery and anime themes. Common tags for Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! include indie, psychological, emotional, cartoon, retro and others.
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! is available on PC, Steam Deck and Windows.
On average players spend around 5 hours playing Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! was released on April 24, 2025.
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! was developed by Shadow Glove.
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! for its emotional but disliked it for its gameplay.
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! is a single player game.
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