Methods: The Illusion Murders
LockedOn Games · 2024 · Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Puzzle, Female Protagonist, RPG
PC
Very Positive86% · 101 📉 Recent reviews down 77%
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About Methods: The Illusion Murders
Now available for free, discover a mystery story set in the world of Methods: The Detective Competition. Red July, an up-and-coming celebrity detective, is challenged by The Illusion Killer — a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions. However, in the course of solving the murder, Red July's famous method — which lets her instantly solve any crime — stops working. Now the race is on to stop the killer before it's too late!
The game is a mystery visual novel that lets you examine evidence with a short interactive puzzle mini-game.
Featuring
- Interactive game
- Original soundtrack
- Dynamic Storytelling
- Distinctive Artwork
- Immersive Game World
- Unique DLC to Methods: The Detective Competition (100 detectives VS 100 Criminals)
Playing Methods: The Detective Competition first is highly recommended, but not required to understand the story.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
good story line enjoyable and would recommend3 found this helpful
"Methods: The Illusion Murders" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. At least we are spared the default topic that most Steam e-book fan-fictions carry, which is all about the author and his imaginary anime girlfriend. This fan-fiction, instead, is all about a really badly written murder mystery. The writing is still incredibly cringey. This e-book isn't that linear and works more as a Choose Your Own Adventure, but the point still stands... nobody read a CYOA book and then said "Wow, what a great game I just played." Books aren't games. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when oth…1 found this helpful
Disappointingly, there is no real detection (or thinking) needed. The plot resolves itself. The only puzzle you solve has no bearing on the case - it's a red herring.1 found this helpful
Speaking only for the ease of the achievements, I would recommend this game.1 found this helpful
Quick but fun. I love seeing how much the art keeps improving between the first game, Canada and this.1 found this helpful
Pretty solid little mystery, really gotta play more of this series.
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