The Case of the Serialized Killer

The Case of the Serialized Killer

Alexis Royce · December 11, 2023 · Visual Novel, Hand-drawn, Mystery, Supernatural, LGBTQ+

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About The Case of the Serialized Killer

When a popular illustrator is found dead, disgraced demonologist Harold Ludicael is hired to summon her ghost. Ghosts are the one thing he can't summon, but with sharp insight, perhaps he can solve the mystery, and resurrect the most important thing:

His career.

We hope you enjoy our fantasy tale with creeping monsters, summoning magic, and a cast of rich, colorful characters. It has:
  • 20,000 words/about 3 hours of playtime
  • Point and Click Investigation
  • Traditionally painted watercolor characters and locations
  • A journal which keeps track of a colorful list of suspects and lore
  • A variable set of bad endings, and one true ending, depending on which suspect you choose!

Meet the cast:

The Case of the Serialized Killer — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Apr 4, 2026
Overall a bit boring, so many conversations just to set the story, but the game let's out 3 or 4 words at the time. This approach force you to click 3 times on average (meaning there's more) to fully read one single sentence, I didn't find it very engaging, fell asleep on the couch between clicks to be honest. Not really a point and click investigation game, you don't collect clues, you don't combine anything either. There are a couple of scenes where the player must click on various areas to read some more text (more clicks) to analyse the scene and understand clues to interpret later. Characters are somewhat confusing, some interactions come out as bit cringy and definitely not relevant to this story. I found it disappointing, hoped for some more investigation and less forced irrelevant details. Would have been fun if there was a reason for all that, but simply there wasn't.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 31, 2026
[h1] A fun, quick story with an interesting plot and compelling characters. [/h1] I had a lot of fun playing this game! The mystery is the perfect level of difficulty. I'm a big mystery fan, so I picked up on most of the clues very quickly and was able to figure things out rather fast, but I never felt like I knew everything or that the game had gotten boring. There was always new information to find!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 7, 2026
A fun and engaging, well-written detective story with gorgeous watercolour art. This one was a real pleasure to play! Appreciated the LGBTQ representation too :)
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 21, 2026
Very fond of the art and backgrounds, looking through the extra's menu was a real treat. The music was also fantastically done, I really enjoyed some of the pieces they certainly set the mood. I'm not normally into visual novels, but I do like murder mysteries and this was a good 2 hours spent.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 11, 2026
A cool, inclusive, ingenious, and beautiful short investigation. Surprisingly emotional too. Loved it.
Recommended Jun 27, 2026
A short but sweet supernatural murder mystery with a lot of drama and worldbuilding crammed into its runtime. Plenty of humour and heavily nudge-nudged gay romance. The protagonists are visually rather ripped off of Good Omens, but their characters and psychology are individual; the expressive and otherwise quite original sprites add to the remarkably unsettling atmosphere.

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