Play Yamamura Misa Suspense - Kyouto Ryuu no Tera Satsujin Jiken (Japan) Online

Game Overview

Yamamura Misa Suspense is this weird little NES detective game that never made it outside Japan—which is a shame, because it’s actually kind of fascinating. You play as a journalist (or maybe a detective? The translation’s rough) digging into a murder at a Kyoto temple. The whole thing plays like a visual novel before visual novels were really a thing—lots of text, some light puzzle-solving, and a surprising amount of atmosphere for an 8-bit game.

You’ll spend most of your time talking to suspects, picking dialogue options, and occasionally getting stuck because you missed some tiny clue three screens back. The pixel art’s moody, the music’s oddly tense, and yeah, you’ll probably hit a dead end or two before figuring out who actually did it. Not for everyone, but if you like slow-burn mysteries, it’s a neat relic from 1987.