Trick × Trick

[後半に日本語レビューあり] [h1]Psychic Powers and Sudden-Death Voting: A Death-Game Mystery[/h1] Twelve high school students are trapped in a mysterious building and each given a different psychic power. Their task is to uncover the mastermind behind their captivity. To escape, they must either identify the mastermind through a vote or assassinate them. A wrong vote executes the person named instead. One accusation can kill an innocent participant, making the act of deduction inseparable from the responsibility of voting. Whenever an incident occurs, you examine the scene, gather evidence, reason through it, then move into a real-time debate. The debate advances automatically, so you have to catch lies or contradictions in the conversation and counter them with the right evidence. There are no long stretches of free exploration between these phases; the story moves quickly from incident to investigation to debate. It plays less like a demanding investigation simulator and more like a death-game VN you read while actively working through deductions. Its brisk pace and compact structure are easy to appreciate. The personalities and psychic powers of all 12 characters feed into the incidents, w…