Tokyo Detectives

Tokyo Detectives

Rincho Games · December 30, 2021 · Detective, Investigation, Anime, Visual Novel, Mystery

Tokyo Detectives is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Tokyo Detectives price

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About Tokyo Detectives

✦ AI summary

Tokyo Detectives puts you in the shoes of homicide detectives Rin and Nadeshiko as you investigate murders across Tokyo through witness questioning, crime scene analysis, and suspect interrogations. Build your case by examining evidence and rebut accusations in a detective visual novel that blends investigation gameplay with branching narrative choices.

  • Runs on macOS 10.15 Catalina or above (tested on macOS 11.6 Big Sur)

- STORY -


Rin and Nadeshiko are homicide detectives for the Tokyo police.
Find out the killer behind the murder.

- GAMEPLAY -


You will be playing as a homicide detective in charge of murder investigation in Tokyo.
  • Witness questioning
  • Murder scene investigation
  • Interrogation of suspects
  • Rebuttal section

*This is the free-to-play base game of Tokyo Detectives in which you could explore all features including the rebuttal section, but you would need to purchase the DLC of Case 01 and Case 02 to continue till the end of each case.
  • Case 01 : free-to-play until the middle of rebuttal section
  • Case 02 : free-to-play until the middle of scene investigation

- NEW FEATURES -

  • In-game map to move around during scene investigation
  • Evidence selection screen improved so that the question is shown simultaneously for better experience
  • Alert for paid content added
  • Character visuals updated
  • UI improved

- GENRE -


#Detective Game
#Murder Investigation
#Crime Investigation
#Visual Novel

Tokyo Detectives — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
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.

Recommended Jul 16, 2024
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Not recommended Mar 23, 2026
"Tokyo Detectives" isn't a game. It looks like an e-book dumped on Steam masquerading as a game, but it's not that either! This is an advert! This is just the "try before you buy" intro to some cringe fan-fiction, and the "author" expects you to pay money for the rest... imagine paying money for someone's high school anime club dropout fan-fiction. Ugh. This is never okay. As an advertisement for a visual novel, this has no notable gameplay. It's just clicking through badly written, cringey fan-fiction tryhard dialogue that wouldn't be accepted in print by any real book publisher. How did such garbage end up on Steam? When failed authors can't get published in print (and possibly laughed at by publishers), they spend $100 to dump their high school fan-fiction e-book onto Steam under the guise of a game... but this time they made the conscious choice to try mislead gamers with this incorrectly published demo. To prove the author of this garbage e-book and corresponding advertisement is abusing the free section of Steam for the purpose of marketing garbage, here's the correct process that [i]the author deliberately did not follow:[/i] https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/appl…
Recommended Jun 23, 2025
very fun and enjoyable detective game!! i do wish we got a bit more information about rin and nadeshiko though, they have such a cute dynamic :))) 10/10 would recommend
Not recommended Mar 7, 2025
two half episodes is kinda lame
Recommended Aug 31, 2023
Very nice game. One complaint would be sometimes the English is not the best in the subtitles. Other than that i have enjoyed playing so far. I feel like each story to buy the DLC is very reasonably priced.
Recommended Mar 27, 2023
[h1]Before I played Tokyo Detectives, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

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