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A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
The Posthumous Investigation is a time manipulation, detective and choices matter game
developed by Mother Gaia Studio
and published by CriticalLeap and Infini Fun.
Released on March 31st 2026 is available on Windows, MacOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 6 languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 559 reviews of which 525 were positive and 34 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 16.57€ on Steam with a 15% discount, but you can find it for 8.46€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified The Posthumous Investigation into these genres:
Time Manipulation
Detective
Choices Matter
Adventure
Story Rich
Multiple Endings
Noir
Atmospheric
Mystery
Point & Click
Visual Novel
Puzzle
Crime
Investigation
Exploration
Dialogue Heavy
Singleplayer
Supernatural
Comedy
Time Travel
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for The Posthumous Investigation:
| UI | Subtitle | Audio | |
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| English | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
| Russian | |||
| Japanese | |||
| Portuguese - Brazil |
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Multi-core 1.8GHz or faster
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or equivalent
- Storage: 3 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS High Sierra
- Processor: Apple M1 ou Intel Core i3 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or equivalent
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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Despite a rather middling English translation, I found The Posthumous Investigation to be a really fun and refreshing experience. The time-loop mechanic adds more dimension to the adventure-game mechanics, and the game keeps your clues well-organized and gives direction on how to proceed with your investigation. The character designs and animation are very charming and add lots of personality, which definitely helps make up for the sometimes unnatural-sounding translated dialogue. Puzzle difficulty is quite low but there’s enough going on to keep the game engaging. Overall a solid game worth checking out.
One of my favorite games ever released is The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask . Uniquely to the series, and to much of gaming as a whole, this game takes place over the course of a three-day schedule, looping back to the beginning at the end of each cycle and allowing you to use your knowledge and abilities gained in the previous cycle to influence the next by completing sidequests, dungeons, solving people's problems, and just generally bumming around. This structure has made it quite a popular title on the whole, but in spite of this, there's very little like it that's been released since outside of 2019's The Outer Wilds. Enter The Posthumous Investigation , a game which largely tries and... mostly succeeds at following in these footsteps, albeit in the format of a murder-mystery-adventure-game. You play as the nameless "Detective", employed by renowed local jerkass millionaire Bras Cubas by means of mysterious posthumous letter, and given the task of investigating his death. You've got one looping day to do so, and at the end of each day (or when you get your ass kicked, locked in jail, or take any other action that would reasonably take up the rest of your day), you'll end up in a strange limbo dimension with your client's lingering soul, discussing that day's findings regarding the mystery and characters with him via means of a photo-and-string conspiracy board, and being kicked back to the start of the day to begin the cycle anew. During that day, you'll run around the streets of Rio de Janeiro and collect items, interrogate suspects (mostly by way of showing them evidence Ace Attorney investigation style), solve puzzles, and more. Every suspect in the game, and indeed the majority of named characters, has a completely developed schedule that runs alongside your in-game clock, including interactions with other suspects, conversations you can eavesdrop on, and actions you must manipulate to learn more from them. This aspect of the game is, frankly, very well done. It does feel as though these characters have somewhat rich lives, and it feels great to exploit this for your own gain, showing off evidence to corner a character that you gained the prior day by helping someone else, or by going behind their back while you've arranged things to make sure they're gone - or using a keyphrase or knowledge gained to get somewhere you had to do a number of things to reach before. However, this system can also be pretty annoying and inconsistent with the things it makes you do every cycle vs the things it lets you skip with that prior knowledge. For example, you might need a key to get into a building that a character gives you after doing something for them, only to have the character tell you to put it back somewhere when you're done with it. In future cycles, you can grab that key from the place he tells you to put it before he arrives there in the morning to grab it yourself. Really neat. But once you use the key once, you learn an alternate way to get in there that doesn't require the key anymore, so what's the point of having the key available in that fashion? Conversely, near the beginning of the game there's an alley that you must get cheese bread for a police officer to get into and grab an item. This is something you will have to do a lot, nearly every other cycle for various reasons, but the game still makes you grab the cheese bread every time. Easy, but tedious and especially annoying when the police officer character is pointless and doesn't even have anything to do with the story - while story-crucial characters DO let you skip stuff like this all the time. The game is also kind of irritating with how it approaches windows in which you can talk to a character. There's many instances where a guy who you need to talk to will just be standing around doing nothing in particular in public, but you can't talk to them there, only when they're in a specific place at a specific time. Why? I could maybe understand concerns of sequence breaking if the place you are supposed to talk to that character is somewhere you can only go in the later game, but in order to do anything important with these characters, you almost always need something from those areas anyway to present to them, so it realistically wouldn't change much at all - especially as there's few areas actually locked behind progression and not solving a routine puzzle you can do at any given time. Majora's Mask has an item called the Bomber's Notebook that records where characters are, when you can interact, and what they're doing, and I really think this game could've benefitted from something like that. I didn't find it too bad to keep track of all of this stuff, but there's a couple irritating moments when a character won't talk to you unless they're in their house, for example, but they don't tell you when they're going home, only that they'll be home "later", and there's no real indicator when they ARE home unless you just waste time outside the house fast forwarding the clock until you see them physically enter instead of doing what the devs presumably want you to do and try to cram as much activity in a day as possible. Oh, you left to go check something else? Sorry, they came and went from their house when you weren't looking. Maybe next cycle. On the subject of characters, most of them also aren't very interesting. This game is Brazilian in origin and while the translation is fine overall, there are a number of small grammatical mistakes and most of the characters end up with a rather flat personality as a result outside of maybe Mr. Cubas himself, who is fairly memorable and a couple standouts. It's a bit of a shame, because I think that something like this would've been far more engaging if I found myself invested in the characters and their relationships - something which is ostensibly the point of the game - but attitudes change on a dime at times depending on the presented evidence, and most characters teeter between being boring and intentionally embodying obvious archetypes while not being over-the-top enough to be comedic or memorable in that role. I'm not going to knock the devs for this though, I still liked a chunk of the cast well enough. In spite of my gripes, I do still recommend this game. The actual gameplay premise is endlessly fascinating from the perspective of a detective game, and the logical progression is absolutely perfect. I almost never had a moment when I felt stuck or unsure of what to do - there was always a lead, a trail, or some other thread I could pull on to get something new to happen, and it feels really awesome to do so. There is an ingame hint system if you're stuck, and while I only used it once (which was kind of a waste of time because I actually did know what I had to do, I just misunderstood the way something worked and the system didn't help with that), it seemed helpful enough if you needed a lead. It didn't really tell me anything that looking at the conspiracy board wouldn't. I did 100% the game, and while I didn't think the ending was incredibly satisfying in and of itself, this one is about the journey more than the destination and I enjoyed that well enough to drop $20 on it.
I don't play games of this kind but I came across this game by chance and it caught my attention with its style and "Groundhog Day" idea. Overall I have really enjoyed this game. 1. Atmosphere. I didn't feel a noir atmosphere, but that didn't ruin the experience. The original visual style and satirical narrative created a certain charming atmosphere. 9/10 2. Music. There is beautiful music, different for different locations. Nothing out of the ordinary, but it set the right tone at various points in the game. 7/10 3. Gameplay. The gameplay is typical for this kind of games but the time loop adds a touch of originality. The game encourages "what if..." type of actions and that's awesome. 10/10 4. Narrative. Nonlinear narrative. Characters who live their own lives with their own daily routines. 10/10 5. Technical condition. I encountered rare bugs, but overall it wasn't critical. 9/10 Final grade 9/10 P. S. The developers' overall idea is clear, but the ending leaves a sense of understatement. Throughout the game, we influenced people's lives, but the results of our actions are erased after the day is over. It would be interesting if, after the final, we were allowed to replay the day one last time, however we wanted, and see how the next day will be.
This game is the surprise of the year for me. It wasn't on my radar at all, but when it came up in Upcoming Releases, its combination of detective gameplay and literary fiction roots made it an instant buy. The game's distinctive black and white art style and vibe-y music perfectly fit the narrative and gameplay, and the story unfolds in a very engrossing way, slowly deepening the player's understanding of over a dozen characters you need to investigate. In terms of personal taste, I would call it a masterpiece, but it admittedly isn't without its flaws. The game's writing is great, but it has grammatical mistakes throughout. It's not enough to mar the experience too much, but I do hope it gets a cleaner pass, as the overall writing is brilliant. The most divisive element will be the time loop mechanics. While the devs have included some streamlining to iron out the repetitive nature of the core gameplay, some puzzles still require repeating the same actions over and over, especially if you're trying to solve them without a guide. I'm not totally sure how much can be done to remedy this, but if it can, I hope the devs go for it. If you have the patience it requires, this is a 10/10 experience, full of wit and charm.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Posthumous Investigation is currently priced at 16.57€ on Steam.
Yes, The Posthumous Investigation is currently available at a 15% discount. You can purchase it for 16.57€ on Steam.
Yes, The Posthumous Investigation received 525 positive votes out of a total of 559 achieving a rating of 8.74.
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The Posthumous Investigation was developed by Mother Gaia Studio and published by CriticalLeap and Infini Fun.
Yes, The Posthumous Investigation is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, The Posthumous Investigation is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, The Posthumous Investigation is not playable on Linux.
Yes, The Posthumous Investigation is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, The Posthumous Investigation is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, The Posthumous Investigation does not support VR.
The Posthumous Investigation is a single-player game.
No, The Posthumous Investigation does not currently offer any DLC.
No, The Posthumous Investigation does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, The Posthumous Investigation does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, The Posthumous Investigation is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Posthumous Investigation.
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CriticalLeap,
Infini Fun
Release
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