Den-Den: Tokyo Horror

When it comes to horror games, there's a lot of choices out there. For the survival grotesque horror, you have games like Dead Space, or Resident Evil. But for the mundane style of life, you have this: Meet Den-Den: Tokyo Horror. DD:TH is Frozen Lake's second game, following on from the low-res 90's-esque found-footage-style of Water Delivery. It's been on my to-play list for nigh on over a year or so, so there have been more than a few reasons to look into it. DD:TH follows on from Water Delivery: you're a low-income worker delivering a service to the overlooked members of society, however things diverge from there. Instead of simply dropping jugs of water bigger than my ego, you have to collect items and provide them to patients in order to keep them alive. Some of these things are easy to find by dumpster-diving or buying them from machines or the corner shop, however then you run into issues of trying to find one battery in the entire district because the patient needs it, or you've got so many consumables that you don't know what to do with them, or perhaps you've used some of them and left with rubbish. Thankfully there are recycling stations around that pay a pittance…

EDIT: The game has been updated as of 13/10/2026 and most of the issues listed below in the OLD REVIEW have been fixed. NEW REVIEW: A really strange but fun game with a creepy vibe. As the player the main objective is to go round the city and help elderly patients with their needs, but you have a time limit. Each hour in game is 30mins irl so you need to make sure what you prioritise. It doesn't feel stressful trying to complete the patients needs, but trying to complete side objectives while completing the main objectives needs some planning. The only thing i can compare it to is Legend of Zelda: Majora's mask. But with no time rewind. There's a lot of other side objectives that adds to the lore of the city, and this is the meat of the gameplay. Some side objectives can help you with others and add to story / lore, they're weird, strange and sometimes surreal. Balancing the patients needs while trying to complete side objectives is tough and needs some thought. I really enjoy it and it's a very unique game style. While i did give it a negative review on release, it was only because of bugs. The gameplay, story and vibe are all really enjoyable. Also the devs have already made f…

game is very much inspired by pathologic 1.2 and maybe even 3 and if you told me it had members from icepick logde who made it i would not be surprised as the presentation and way it works is very similar, if you are into these types of slow encroaching anxiety type horror then it does it very well. i think the rpp mechanics are a little thin and the English translation can be pretty poor at times but its not un playable or impossible to understand what was meant to be said.

Update: Fixed everything I complained about in less than 24h. Actual 10/10 game! -Old Review Game literally didn't save for 2 hours. Game creates a new save file each time it saves, if it reaches 30, its supposed to overwrite the oldest save file. Except it didn't... n I only noticed when I reloaded. GG! Gonna change my review to positive once this gets fixed. I shouldnt need to manually delete old saves to make room for new ones!

First of all, I am very much enjoying myself playing this game. Second of all, I am no where near done with it. This game concept is so cool, the map is huge, there's so much detail in all the characters passing by along with side quests and caring for your patients, I'm incredibly impressed by how much work and detail was put into the game. I have encountered bugs such as being unable to draw a weapon in the prison where the riot is happening however there have been two updates since I played last (which was only yesterday afternoon mind you). TWO updates in less than a day says a lot about the devs. There are so many expensive games that will take forever to put out bug fixes - I appreciate this quality so much. I recommend giving it a go and I'll be digging back into it later today <3

Great concept! not your typical horror game!