- September 14, 2018
- sakevisual
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About Yousei
Yousei is a single player casual simulation game with mystery and anime themes. It was developed by sakevisual and was released on September 14, 2018. It received very positive reviews from players.
For the past few years, Kangai has been a wanderer, but his return to his hometown has triggered a series of deaths linked to his past. He joins a group of psychic teenagers who solve mysteries under the watchful eye of the government. In Yousei, he and his group are sent undercover to a local university where they must dig up the remains of a top secret experiment. Upon arrival, they discover the…
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Reviews
- Yousei features improved and more refined artwork with a visual glow-up for characters compared to previous installments.
- The game has well-written, engaging characters and a layered, well-paced mystery story that builds on the previous entries.
- New gameplay elements such as a map for fast travel, mobile phone, and notes add variety and improve the player experience.
- The game ends on a cliffhanger with many plot threads left unresolved, which can feel unsatisfying and leave players wanting more answers.
- Some parts of the story are perceived as slow or containing dialogue that feels unimportant to the main narrative.
- The user interface could be improved, as navigating the map sometimes requires excessive clicking, which can become tedious.
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14 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe story in this third installment of the Yousei series is longer, more polished, and expands the cast and mythology significantly, offering unique routes that deepen the narrative. While it builds well on the previous games and maintains high-quality writing, many players feel the cliffhanger ending leaves key plot threads and the protagonist's abilities unresolved, resulting in a sense of an unfinished story.
“Builds on the story of the two previous games wonderfully.”
“The third game in the series, Yousei’s story is longer and the cast is bigger than the previous entries, with the same quality writing as the other two.”
“The writing feels very well thought out, and the different routes all add something truly unique to the story.”
“And even though it was brought up as a positive, the ending can still be docked for the very clear cliffhanger ending, leaving many plot threads open, and taking what was a better story than the previous titles, and giving it a real negative mark for feeling unfinished at the end.”
“Final: this title did everything better than the last game in the story, with its only real drawback tripping at the finish line with an unsatisfying ending and no real answers given to the main character's abilities.”
“Also, even though I find it fun to solve the killer mystery, I wouldn't mind a title with no murder and more of approaching the main story itself.”
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Yousei is a casual simulation game with mystery and anime themes. Common tags for Yousei include indie.
Yousei is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.
Yousei was released on September 14, 2018.
Yousei was developed by sakevisual.
Yousei has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked Yousei for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.
Yousei is a single player game.
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