
Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition. To solve each mystery, you must use your team member’s unique detective methods, refute faulty theories with evidence, and find out the truth!
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.57/day in the week to Aug 10 → 0.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Welcome to the mysterious Canadian detective competition! Find clues, interview suspects, and find out the truth with your teammates' unique methods!
Six Files await you in the full game, containing convoluted puzzles from Canada’s most devious masterminds. Each one takes around 2-4 hours to complete depending on your skill of deduction…
Your time starts… now.
Yours,
The Game-master

Original soundtrack
Dynamic Storytelling
Rich Character Depth
Distinctive Artwork
Immersive Game World
Prequel to Methods: The Detective Competition
Playing Methods: The Detective Competition first is highly recommended, but not required to understand the story.
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Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
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Reviews
Themes across 64 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
剧情不错的侦探风格视觉小说,叙事结构优秀,整体难度不大但是在出示证据的环节有时让人对不上思路,人物性格鲜明且对主要角色的表现比弹丸好
喜欢...一开始还不太适应画风,后面已完全沉迷
一号档案:给所有有关时间的证据与问题打差评,既要考虑时间顺序,还要考虑证言真伪,更要揣摩作者意图。你想的二,作者想的2,然后给你判负,简直吃屎体验。除此以外的质询和反驳都还可以 二号档案:思路不合的问题更加大了,考虑到档案结尾还有评分,这种片面评价显得更恶心人。真不如把互动环节删掉,或者评分系统删掉。纯纯耽误看故事,影响沉浸感。各种看不懂的互动小游戏 我觉得已经没必要考虑了,这个互动系统完完全全毁了故事的阅读体验
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Simplified Chinese
Hours played at review time, across 64 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
耗玩
实在是太惊喜了...!!解谜很硬核很好玩,小游戏玩法丰富,音乐好听得要死一边推理一边摇,角色形象丰满,社交系统也一绝,刚打完档案1看完队内社交光速来打好评,在前作就已经很喜欢拉里卡了到这一作更是被迷得晕头转向...TT拉里卡我爱你,主角团的每个人我都好爱
非常好玩,主要塑造五位主角,所以每个人都很立体而且很好玩。拉里卡在本篇就已经非常有魅力了,在前传里魅力更上一层楼,期待作者的下一篇作品。
夯没边了!
真神了
Just like "The Detective Competition", this prequel is simply fantastic! The strongest point again are the wonderfully weird characters and their banter dynamics. The setting is also used to its full advantage.
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