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The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
The Silver Case is a adventure, investigation and mystery game
developed by GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC. and PLAYISM
and published by GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC..
Released on October 06th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 875 reviews of which 773 were positive and 102 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP2+ or newer
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set support or greater
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or greater
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 7 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.8 32bit
- Processor: 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 or greater
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000 or greater
- Storage: 7 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set support or greater
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or greater
- Storage: 7 GB available space
User reviews & Ratings
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[H1]The Silver Case 17-25 hours to complete, The Silver Case is a surreal, dystopian visual novel with supernatural elements mixed with a bit of science fiction. You play as a mute former Special Ops Agent scouted by the Metropolitan Police Department after the destruction of your entire squad, with you, an unknown with no government records, as the sole survivor. Now rehired as a detective, investigate the city’s most heinous and disturbing cases. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3537098725 After each case, you unlock its “Placebo” counterpart, an accompanying chapter told by Tokio Morishima, an unlucky journalist. I suggest you play these chapters as soon as you unlock them, as they don’t just expand on what just happened; they clarify it. Due to the games fever dream vibes where everything is cryptic, confusing, disorienting - and due to the dystopian tag, the logical action to a situation was often the wrong thing, so what’s normal tends to slip a bit. There is weird, and then there is Silver Case Weird. It’s definitely not a traditional story as it is a bunch of layered experiences you won’t fully comprehend until you look at a guide, which is why even though I recommend it, I would not suggest a casual gamer to play this at all. Only to those who seek the surreal. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3537098339
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Really, REALLY good story with strong themes and generally great visual presentation. It can feel strange/incoherent at points, as it doesn't really wait up for the player at all; instead of taking the time to explain everything that happens the game often jumps to the next beat. Because of this it might not be for absolutely everyone, but I personally really enjoyed it as it gives you a lot to think about in regards to what is going on and what everything actually means, and this makes the overall story a lot more engaging as a result. Also, the soundtrack is really good as well. Also also, can I borrow about 50,000 yen?
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This was a quite captivating experience! I like the retro vibes and unique UI/design of the game. The music is awesome too and I enjoyed the variety of visuals! The plot is very interesting, though I found it rather confusing for the most part and only understood the gist of it towards the end (plus a bunch of the details I had to look up later lol). Despite that I got really invested in the lore and love the creative story regardless. Additionally I enjoyed the funny dialogues and characters. Overall I really loved the heavy, surreal and mysterious atmosphere, the constant uncertainty and vagueness actually made it more uncanny and impactful. Moreover I highly enjoyed all of the concepts and ideas, especially when the story explored diverse topics of psychology, philosophy, politics, etc! I suppose the gameplay is somewhat rough as a whole; it's not difficult and certainly has entertaining elements but often it got simply annoying to repeatedly move around when it could've just immediately skipped to the next cutscene. Also a vast amount of animations (such as the computer in the appartment or introductions of the locations) are simply too long, it was eventually aggravating to be forced to see the same unskippable animations several times within a few minutes and made the gameplay feel incredibly slow at times. Besides that forced slow pace I don't really have any complaints however and found most of the game very enjoyable!
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The Silver Case is a hard game to review. in it's most simplest form, it is a dated visual novel with one of the most compelling stories told in video games in the past 2 - 3 decades. At it's most, its a full on story about the idea of crime and the justification people use to rationalize said crime. It's really hard to talk about The Silver Case without talking about SUDA51's Kill The Past series of games. TSC is the first game in the series and is later on followed by Flower, Sun and Rain and then The 25th Ward (the actual sequel to TCS). Each of these games, even if it seems as far fetched are interconnected as ever, like a string of web all spread across the internet. Simply put, TCS is the point where it all started. About TCS, its quite simply, spectacular. you don't see narratives in games like this anymore, narratives that not only are intriguing, but are still faithful to the medium. games like detroit become human and the telltale games might have better narratives, but they are more interactive movies. Not TCS. TCS is special, it really is. There's nothing like it on the market as of right now. it's like a lynchian fever dream recreation of silence of the lambs except now its a huge case across one of the biggest counties (districts?) in Japan, The 24th Ward. It's insane. i can't describe it because no matter how much i can tell you about the game, it will never live up to the experience of playing the game.
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It's a long, cryptic, kino ride from SUDA51, from the time when he was just starting his own company, now in a refreshed package. You HAVE to experience it at least once in your life. Oh and btw... Lend me 50,000 ¥?
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The Silver Case is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
The Silver Case is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
The Silver Case received 773 positive votes out of a total of 875 achieving a rating of 8.34.
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The Silver Case was developed by GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC. and PLAYISM and published by GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC..
The Silver Case is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Silver Case is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Silver Case is playable and fully supported on Linux.
The Silver Case is a single-player game.
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The Silver Case does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Silver Case does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Silver Case 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.
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GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.,
PLAYISM
Publisher
GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.
Release
06 Oct 2016
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