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Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Tokyo Dark is a anime, visual novel and detective game
developed by Cherrymochi
and published by Square Enix.
Released on September 07th 2017 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 1,307 reviews of which 1,105 were positive and 202 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 or above (64-bit Operating System Required)
- Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550, 3.1 GHz or Intel Core i3 3220
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3870 (512 MB) or GeForce 8800 GT (512 MB)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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I loved the anime horror vibes. The visuals are clean and stylish and the music is properly creepy in places. The story is good. I like how some conversations are different on the replay, and you can skip most (but not all) of the dialogue you've already seen. New Game+ adds some nice save points to make it easier to get the rest of the endings, and a single run is relatively short (around two hours) once you know what to do in each area. I had some serious issues with the game crashing at points. The sewers were particularly prone to it. Luckily the autosaves are frequent, and with some perseverance I made it past the problem points.
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Tokyo Dark is a very good visual novel horror game, but anyway what is the story. In modern-day Tokyo, legend tells of a door deep in Tokyo’s sewers and all who enter are lost forever, it's one of the many old stories of this city who has seen wars, natural disasters and death for centuries, it’s just one of the colorful stories you hear, but to detective Ito the story becomes reality. After her partner is missing the young homicide detective is forced into an unbelievable world of twisted paths and broken dreams, to an innocent little girl forced to undertake a ritual she was not meant for and were the very fabric of the world is at stake, so the detective marches on to uncover the truth, but can detective Ito do it, can she solve the mystery or will she lose it all. Now let’s get into the likes, the story is very good I like how you get to learn a little bit about Tokyo as you play, I like games that take place in the real world settings that actually teach you a little bit about the place or facts about the time period. The story also has a little bit of a Silent Hill kind of feel to it with its twists and turns and how it can play with you psychologically. It’s also a choose your own adventure depending on your actions you can unlock a bunch of different endings and how your character will be, although the story does have a problem with it, but that's for the dislikes. The gameplay is pretty good it's basically a visual novel/choose your own adventure, you are asked different questions and depending on your choices can affect the story and the ending, there is one puzzle in the game but that's for dislikes. But anyway there is also this SPIN basically it’s an acronym for sanity, professional, investigation and neurosis, basically you have to balance it and make sure it doesn't get to a negative 100 if it does, you're locked into a certain ending. The SPIN is a very interesting idea which can allow you to unlock different branches of dialogue and different ways to handle a problem although SPIN has a little problem but again for dislikes. The graphic art style is really good with a good uses of colors that really highlight Tokyo, especially with bright pink cherry blossom trees in a local temple, to the neon lights of Tokyo, it also has a lot of eye-catching designs and scenery that's just a joy to look at. The levels are all very good and pretty diverse from a cherry blossom filled temple, to the electric part of Tokyo, to even the legendary suicide forest, you can tell a lot was put into the detail and designs put into the world and the backgrounds, it makes you really want to explore and just stop and appreciate all the little bits and bobs of everything. The characters are very good each one is well made with interesting personalities and nice and sometimes very cute designs, to the point where it's hard to pick which ones were my favorite characters from the bad guy Rena and how you come to sympathize with her, to the two workers at the cat maid Cafe and the owner of the Cat Cafe to detective Ito herself, again it’s just hard to pick a favorite character. The soundtrack is good with plenty of great music that really fits with the games themes. Now is this game scary, not really it's more disturbing and psychological like I said it reminds a little bit of Silent Hill, but a less scarier version of it, but for people who are veterans in the horror genre you won’t be scared at all, it's not bad because the story is what's really important I just wish they enhanced the horror a bit more. Now let’s get into the dislikes, I did say there was a problem with the story, at the end there's this new game plus where we find out that we're stuck in a sort of Groundhog Day scenario and in order to get the true ending for the game is to becoming the mask bearer and basically take on the role of keeping this ancient monster at bay and every time we try and get a different ending it just loops around to the beginning of the game, so detective Ito is forced to sacrifice her humanity, her freedom and her life to become a warden in order to keep whatever monster that the dark is, imprisoned. I didn't really care for that I don't know as someone who believes in free will and who believes that destiny is bunk and I felt this true ending was kind of bullshit, I wish there was a better ending to give her. Also the game has some bugs, but nothing really game breaking. Now there is this one puzzle that's really annoying. It’s this light puzzle you have to click these lights in this tunnel in a certain order or it'll just make you start from the beginning, it was quite frustrating and to the point where I basically gave up and just used a walkthrough, it's the only real puzzle in the game and it just feels out of place. There's the SPIN like I said there's a problem with it which is I feel like more could have been done with it, like take sanity I feel like as your sanity depletes you start to see weird things and hear horrible sounds or when you're investigation skills is high you can unlock even more ways to solve problems you know basically stuff like that. Finally I do wish they up the horror a bit more, I'm not saying that things should jump out and go boo at you, but I feel like they could have up the psychological terror a bit more. Now that I’ve told you all this Tokyo Dark is a very good visual novel horror game, with a very good story, good graphic art style and very good characters. Alright do I recommend this game actually yes I do, if you're looking for a very good visual novel horror game this could be for you, although for veteran horror fans don't expect to be really scared or anything.
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The game's exactly my thing, so I'm surprised it appeared on my radar as late as in 2025. This is definitely something to play on a long Winter night so that you can really experience the descent.
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These are some fine cats. Oh ummm... the horror and the darkness are alright too. I do, however, wish the developers invented a 'skip read' button. Going through the entire game four times takes a toll on the fingers.
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Прекрасная игра Плюсы: - Сюжет продуман и заставляет двигаться вперед, без тягомотины - Музыкальное сопровождение - Оформление - Неплохой New Game + Минусы: - Не очень удобно, что при первом прохождении нет сохранений ручных Субъективно: - Сложно найти гайды для получения ачивочек
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tokyo Dark is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam.
Tokyo Dark is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.49€ on Steam.
Tokyo Dark received 1,105 positive votes out of a total of 1,307 achieving a rating of 8.06.
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Tokyo Dark was developed by Cherrymochi and published by Square Enix.
Tokyo Dark is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Tokyo Dark is not playable on MacOS.
Tokyo Dark is not playable on Linux.
Tokyo Dark is a single-player game.
Tokyo Dark does not currently offer any DLC.
Tokyo Dark does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Tokyo Dark does not support Steam Remote Play.
Tokyo Dark 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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Cherrymochi
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Square Enix
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07 Sep 2017
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