Murder Diaries

Murder Diaries

EpiXR Games UG · September 17, 2021 · Crime, Detective, Mystery, Story Rich, Surreal

Buy Murder Diaries from Steam at $4.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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Positive82% · 28 📉 Recent reviews down 67%
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Murder Diaries price by region

Murder Diaries costs $3.14 in Georgia (USD), $4.99 in the United States, €4.99 in Europe (EUR), £4.99 in the United Kingdom, CA$5.74 in Canada, NZ$6.19 in New Zealand, A$7.25 in Australia, R$10.34 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Murder Diaries offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $3.14 −50% $3.14 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 −50% $4.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €4.99 −50% €4.99 — 1
United Kingdom £4.99 −50% £4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.74 −50% CA$5.74 — 1
New Zealand NZ$6.19 −50% NZ$6.19 — 1
Australia A$7.25 −50% A$7.25 — 1
Brazil R$10.34 −50% R$10.34 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Murder Diaries

Experience the Murder Diaries

In Murder Diaries you abstractly follow the narration of a young man through his life and his thoughts. This leads you straight into a murder mystery unlike you have ever seen before.

Figure out what happened, explore fascinating landscapes and abstract environments and enjoy the thrilling storytelling. Collect pieces of the story while freely floating through related environments and immerse yourself into an intriguing story filled with blood and murder.

A must have for any true fan of thrillers and anyone how enjoys a murder mystery that goes beyond the normal story telling.

How does the gameplay work?

You will play as a free-floating ghost like creature.
Basically, as the soul of someone who is experiencing the story.
You are very small in comparison to the surroundings and can fly freely through the area.
You start by exploring the area and enjoying the feeling of flying as well as the gentle yet mysterious background music.

Soon after starting to explore, you will find the first memory piece.
You can collect the memory pieces to continue with the story and to advance with the overall narration.
The story talks about a young boy, about his live and about how everything changes. It is setup as a thrilling murder mystery and acts as a contrast to the somewhat calm and enjoyable gameplay.
You fly towards another memory piece and collect it.
Once you collected the memory piece a nearby book opens and a couple of words are floating out of the book.
Just like that the environment will often react and reflect on the advancing story and will abstractly represent some of the things that happen in the story and that are on the mind of the young boy.

The first levels are quite straight forward but the further you advance the more surreal and abstracted the levels become.
Once you have finished a chapter by collecting all memory pieces and finishing the overall story of a level you will continue into the next chapter.
There are 16 chapters in total and each abstractly represents the story part that you are currently experiencing and has its very own theme and twist to the story.

Murder Diaries — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Feb 14, 2022
"Murder Diaries" is a short narrative game that, unfortunately, fails at almost everything it tries to do. As someone who loves narrative games (and plays a lot of them), I would regard this one mostly as a waste of time and money. The story is so short and pointless that it's impossible to talk about it without "spoiling" anything, but it's also so predictable that I don't think knowing the plot changes anything for potential players. There is no revelation, no twist, and no attempt to make the story even remotely interesting. So here's the synopsis: It's about a young man who grows up under difficult circumstances, sees his father and brother getting killed by rival gangs, and then meticulously plans his revenge and eventually murders the killer. That is literally the entire story, there's nothing more to it. This story is narrated to you by the protagonist itself in 200 voiced lines that are drip-fed to you, with pauses after each line, over the course of 2 hours. Most of these lines are incredibly mundane and boring. The protagonist tells us in excruciating detail which food the victim ate every friday, what kind of clothes he wore on the day of the reckoning, what kind of fi…
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Recommended Dec 18, 2021
i completed all 3 of the games on Xbox i enjoyed them that much that i'm now starting them on PC :) you are basically in control of a butterfly (i think it is lol) and u have to fly it into the rings which tell the story. the rings are easy to find & see if you like murder/crime then you will be surprised with this little gem :) also the music is my favourite part of the game :)
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Not recommended Mar 3, 2026
I played 4 or 5 sections and sadly cant see something nice in it. Apart from not working achievements. It just feels very boring and tedious. I sadly cant recommend it, especially not for this price.
Not recommended Jun 25, 2023
This is the worst Game i played in a long time. Flying with some glowing ball through other glowing things and learn more about the "story" the more you progress. Said story is just the most basic and boring story you can imagine and the speed your flying with is just painfully slow. I would not pay this much for this game. Even as a free game it would be painful to play.
Not recommended Jun 27, 2022
I wouldn't even call this a detective game. All players do is guide a little ball around to trigger narration. It's more obnoxious than a walking simulator because the ball you're guiding around is hard to control. There's not work or thinking you have to put into this.
Not recommended Feb 20, 2022
You maneuver a perpetually moving ball of light through glowing rings in space. One line of narration is read per ring collected. If you miss the ring on the first pass you have to maneuver to get turned back around to retrieve it (using keyboard controls this wasn't always a very quick or easy route). Also not always intuitive WHERE the next ring in the story is located so you float aimlessly around, going through walls of buildings and getting thrown back occasionally when you hit the boundary of the game. Not for me. Didn't finish. Don't recommend.

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