

The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
Square Enix · 2022 · FMV, Choose Your Own Adventure, Historical, Mystery, Adventure
PC
Mostly Positive80% · 1,125
Compare prices in Official Stores
Compare prices in Keyshops
Keyshops are third-party marketplaces — keys are resold and can be region-locked or a different edition. Check the listing's region & edition before buying.
Some store links are affiliate links — playze may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes the price you pay, and the cheapest option is always shown in the Best price box above.
Screenshots
About The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a new unique mystery-adventure game. Directed by Koichiro Ito, and with Yasuhito Tachibana as the Cinematographer and Scenario Director, beautiful yet thrilling live-action footage intertwines with mysteries to solve, creating highly immersive gameplay.
The player follows a chain of murders which take place over the span of a century. Four murders have been committed in three different time periods - 1922, 1972, and 2022.
Each episode is comprised of three parts, the Incident phase, the Reasoning phase, and the Solution phase, inviting the player to seamlessly enter into this world of mystery.
Explore these time periods, collect multiple clues, and solve a 100-year mystery.
The Shijima family have suffered a chain of inexplicable deaths over the past century.When Haruka Kagami, a mystery novelist, visits the Shiijmas, she finds herself taking on four different murder cases - occurring at different points in time.
The red camellia and the Fruit of Youth, which invite only death.
And the truth behind it all, waiting to be uncovered...
Haruka Kagami, the main character, is an up-and-coming mystery writer.Play as Haruka Kagami and pit your wits against the murder cases.
Each murder case comprises of three parts.
The Incident phase: See the entire murder as it unfolds, from start to end. The keys needed to solve the mysteries surrounding the murder can always be found in the video itself.
The Reasoning phase: Put together the \ and \ found during the Incident phase and create a hypothesis in your cognitive space. You can create multiple hypotheses, but not all of them will be correct. Some things you uncover may lead you down the wrong path.
The Solution phase: Pin down the killer based on the hypothesis you created in the Reasoning phase. Select the correct hypothesis to determine the killer. When facing a trickier culprit, they may attempt to refute your claims, so strike back with your reasoning!
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 1 of 2 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
$20.98
to own everything
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Excellent story. Terrible gaming mechanics. Overall I don't regret playing.5 found this helpful
Honestly out of all the Asian FMV's that I played so far? this is the weakest The story seems to drag out far too long for its own good, and for some reason square enix though it was a good idea to put the behind the scenes video as paid DLC which is just.... bruh... its a shame because I did want to see the behind the scenes but I'm not paying like 5.99 just to see it. I give it a 5/10 I still enjoyed the story but they really needed to cut it down in some parts here.... not great pacing tbh... and that ending comes across as somewhat nonsensical with the "villain" modivation being like evil for the sake of being evil pretty much... the game mechanic becomes somewhat pointless considering that the games story is linear in nature with NO branching paths and I can't really recommend this to someone who isn't already familiar with how Japanese TV/Movies are usually very slow like this in terms of drama. I also don't think this game is worth full price, its more of a wait for sale game..... and even then it has no replay value after you finish it once.... so yeah. As the rating for me stands right now for my Asian FMV list from what I played so far from best to worst: …3 found this helpful
Refunded. Drab storytelling, a disinteresting narrative, and woeful mechanics. You'll often come up with more inventive solutions to these whodunnit scenarios than the writers did, leaving a bitter taste in the mouth when the Deus Ex Machina occurs.1 found this helpful
It wouldn't win an oscar but not everything has to be. it's fun to just let yourself be taken for a ride
If you like to read PPT after work for every slide with 3-4 bullet points, you can go ahead to play this game. This story is very fascinating, but the puzzle mechanism is unbearable after chapter 1.
girl my happy ending </3
Community reviews
—
0 reviews
Sign in to write a review.
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this game.













