Price, platforms and system requirements
| Field | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Release | 2025-10-17; Steam and Full Motion Emotion agree | 2 sources |
| Price | $9.99 USD, no discount on this check | 1 source |
| Platform | Windows 10/11. No macOS or Linux build is listed. | 1 source |
| Languages | Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese with full audio. English, Japanese, and Korean are text. | 1 source |
| Developer / publisher | 北京万合瑞晟文化传媒有限公司, with 喜瑞互娱工作室 on the publisher line | 1 source |
| Genres | Adventure, RPG, Simulation | 1 source |
| Storage | 40 GB required available space for the base game; download size is not stated | 1 source |
| Minimum system | Windows 10, 4 GB RAM, DirectX 10. CPU: ntel Core i3-4590 and above (store text). GPU: Core display, discrete graphics card (store text). | 1 source |
| Recommended system | Windows 10/11, 8 GB RAM, DirectX 11; same CPU, GPU and 40 GB storage. | 1 source |
| Reviews | 1,376 reviews, 95%, Overwhelmingly Positive | 1 source |
| Metacritic | None listed on the store page | 1 source |
| Steam Deck | Unsupported. Valve’s note says SteamOS does not support it. | 1 source |
The store also sells the fantasy of scale: 200+ options, 300 clue decks, 10,000+ words of case text, 428 minutes of video, and 12 endings. I repeat those as publisher copy. The structured public guide used here, written by tasselfoot at launch, indexes 199 numbered clue cards and 199 numbered interviews, with a handful of numbers missing. That is why the choices and clues page is a branch index, not a fake catalogue of all 300 decks.
Modes, voices, and the free DLC
You pick Classic or Realistic, and you pick a picture style: Classic Movie Game, or Immersive Movie. Immersive Movie is the free DLC “FLAM EVAW Immersive movie graphics style package” (store app 4051390), released the same day, listed with 27 GB of required available space, rather than a measured download size. The community guide says the extra install is about 25 GB. Movie Expert asks you to install that pack, set Picture Style to Movies, and start any scene. Two male-lead voice tracks are offered; the store does not name the actors, so I do not invent them.
Content notes on the store page, kept here so a buyer sees them before the walkthrough: mild and realistic violence, suicide, criminal behaviour, language, sexual content, alcohol, and an adult venue. The prequel on Steam is 侦探，请守护我的秘密吧！ (15 May 2025, $8.99, Chinese only, 536 reviews at 88% on the same check). EVAW’s English store calls the lead Maple Kurosawa; the Chinese store and FMVDB use 黑泽枫 (Heize Feng); the prequel’s English page says Kazuo Kurosawa. I keep all three labels.
DLC and the first patches
- Launch note, 17 Oct 2025: stats are route-scoped. Replaying a finished branch does not add the TIPS values again, which is why guides warn about a double deduction if you jump backward.
- Patch 1.1, 18 Oct 2025: laser timing is easier; the “save Kitty yourself” Speech/Tech gate moves from 80 to 75; Realistic mode gains a suicide control and an exclusive ending; skip functions and clue-marker resets land.
- Patch 1.2, 19 Oct 2025: AIKO’s high-Justice check moves from 50 to 35; the AIKO and Xu Yinzhen affection check moves from 60 to 50; minigames are easier.
