

The Case of the Serialized Killer
Alexis Royce · 2023 · Visual Novel, Hand-drawn, Mystery, Supernatural, LGBTQ+
PC
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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:
Meet the cast:








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:








DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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
my friends and i loved voicing this game together. the lines are witty, some characters are loving, some characters not (novak was either lovingly referred to as no-♥♥♥♥ or not at all; all of us refused to voice him) and i enjoyed the variety! the conversations with characters were fun, the art is pretty, and i love the development between harold and faraday!!! all of the characters are unique. would absolutely play again, and have!!1 found this helpful
Such a good game, I love the little mystery and the ARTWORK is insane! Now I want to see more of Harry and Hawley (and Maggie)1 found this helpful
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 :)
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.
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.
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