Play Satsujin Club (Japan) Online

You creep through dim rooms picking dialogue choices, never sure if you're solving a murder or about to become the next victim—that soundtrack still haunts me.

Developer: Compile

Genre: Adventure

Released: 1989

File size: 256 bytes

Game Overview

Satsujin Club feels like digging up a cursed VHS tape at a thrift store—one of those weird, Japan-only NES games that somehow slipped under the radar. You start off in this dimly lit room with nothing but cryptic text and the creeping sense that someone (or something) is watching. The whole thing plays like a mix between an old detective novel and a ghost story, where picking the wrong dialogue option might get your character killed in ways you didn’t even see coming.

It’s clunky in that classic 8-bit way, but the atmosphere? Unmatched. The music creeps, the text scrolls slow like it’s taunting you, and half the time you’re not sure if you’re solving a murder or walking into one. Definitely one for fans of Sweet Home or anyone who thinks pixel art can still be unsettling. Just… maybe keep the lights on.