Psycho-Sleuth: Release Date, Price, Languages and How the Disorders Rewrite a Murder
Psycho-Sleuth launched on Steam on 4 November 2026 for $19.99. Here is how the 13 Afflicted Ones' cognitive disorders bend each crime scene, what the launch reviews say, and which languages it ships with.
Psycho-Sleuth starts from a rule that sounds simple and is not: a murder that is never solved makes the killer a god. The cult called Li sets up the game, thirteen people with rare cognitive disorders are the players, and every one of those disorders is a way for the evidence to lie.
How this was checked
Release date, price, languages, requirements, features and the review share come from Steam's official store API and public store page, read on 10 November 2026. Details about the disorders and the cult come from the developer's own store description. The demo length and script size are the studio's public statements. Third-party sales or concurrent-player figures are labelled where used.
Release date
Psycho-Sleuth launched on 4 November 2026 on Steam. The Japanese storefront unlocked the following day, so some outlets date it to 5 November. It is a Windows PC release from PHOSEPO, a five-person studio in Taiwan, published by Thermite Games and Smilegate.
Price
| Store | Price | Launch price (10% off) |
|---|---|---|
| Steam US | $19.99 | $17.99 |
| Steam China | ¥65 | ¥58.50 |
The discount is the standard two-week launch window. Steam Taiwan has listed the game at NT$328, discounted to NT$295 during the same period; that figure comes from local coverage rather than the US store API.
How the disorders rewrite a murder
The premise is not that the detective is unreliable. It is that the people around the detective, and the crime scenes themselves, have been filtered through senses that work differently. The store description names three examples.
- Compulsive truth-telling. A witness who cannot lie sounds like a gift until you notice that "truth" is filtered through a disordered mind.
- Left-side spatial neglect. Evidence on the left half of a room stops existing for the person who sees it, so the scene arrives already missing pieces.
- Prosopagnosia. Faces blur into the same face, which turns identification into a trap.
The store copy adds that these conditions are contagious: they spread the warped perception to other people. That is the part that makes the mystery work as a game rather than a gimmick. You are not correcting one unreliable narrator. You are reconstructing a scene that several people have already broken in different directions.
The store description states the rule and the mechanism: the cult Li runs a trial where a murder that goes unsolved ascends the killer, and the thirteen Afflicted Ones carry contagious cognitive disorders that spread their distorted perception to others.OfficialThe game is framed as honkaku mystery, the branch of detective fiction that insists the solution be reachable from fair clues. The supernatural share is kept small on purpose, so the reasoning still has to hold.
Languages
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Voice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | No |
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | No |
| English | Yes | Yes | No |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | Full |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | No |
Full controller support is listed, along with Steam Cloud, save-anytime, adjustable difficulty and subtitle options.
Reviews and reception
Steam showed a 91% positive rating with more than 470 reviews on 9 November 2026, five days after launch. Japanese and Taiwanese outlets picked it up quickly: it reached the top five of the Japanese Steam bestseller chart and the top ten in Taiwan in its first week, according to local coverage.
Those are review counts and chart positions, not sales. The studio has not published a sales figure.
PC requirements
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7 or higher | Windows 10 or higher |
| Processor | Intel Core i3 | Intel Core i5 |
| Memory | 8 GB RAM | 16 GB RAM |
| Graphics | GeForce GT 1030 or higher | GeForce GT 1030 or higher |
| DirectX | 11 | 11 |
| Storage | 10 GB | 12 GB |
| Resolution | — | 1920 x 1080 |
The graphics line is the same on both sides because the game is a 2D visual novel; the load is in the text, art and voice, not the GPU.
What is still unconfirmed
- The full character list and each Afflicted One's exact condition beyond the three the store names.
- How many endings there are and what branches them.
- Whether the other storefronts it appeared on at launch, such as STOVE and Epic, share saves with Steam.
Read next
- Psycho-Sleuth hub: release facts, screenshots and the current guide list.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did Psycho-Sleuth come out?
4 November 2026 on Steam. The Japanese store unlocked on 5 November.
How much is Psycho-Sleuth?
Steam lists $19.99 in the US and ¥65 in China, with a 10% launch discount that brings them to $17.99 and ¥58.50.
Does Psycho-Sleuth have Traditional Chinese?
Yes, in the interface and subtitles. The full voice-over is Japanese.
Is Psycho-Sleuth a horror game?
No. It is a honkaku mystery adventure built around deduction. The deaths are the setup, not the spectacle.
How long is Psycho-Sleuth?
The developers describe a script of more than 500,000 characters, and the free demo covers Chapter 1 and the start of Chapter 2.
What is the Steam rating?
91% positive with more than 470 reviews as of 9 November 2026.