
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
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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): 2.29/day in the week to Sep 11 → 3.43/day in the week after.
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Sums Steam only; Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $8.99−40% | 21.3Kreviews | 97% | — | $4.3M |
| $19.99 | 2ratings | 50% | — | not modelled | |
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Themes across 967 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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画风非常喜欢
Bought this game for less than ten euros on a sale, thought I might give it a chance. It turns out it might be one of the greatest gems the crime mystery visual novel genre has to offer. It wears its influences firmly on its sleeve; mechanically, it is a very close match to the Ace Attorney: Investigations duology, and Ace Attorney is listed as an influence by the authors of Murders on the Yangtze River. However, to me, this is a clear case of the student outclassing the master, with MotYR offering a tighter, more grounded narrative. AA often relies on the supernatural for its cases, and has a romanticized view of the role of truth in the court system. MotYR's overarching mystery is grounded to a real world injustice, and understands far better than AA the limitations of the court system to enact actual justice. Its historical setting between 1900 and 1912 is executed with care to detail and willingness to teach. The murder mysteries are constructed in a complex but believable manner. I was so hooked I took multiple breaks in between playing, already mourning that I had played through more than half the game. I hope the indie devs stick to their guns, because they demonstrated exceptional talent with this game.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 5.29/day in the week to Jul 26 → 6.71/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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.
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Languages: Simplified Chinese*, English, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 968 reviews with recorded playtime.
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很精致的游戏,很有意思。
很棒,第一次认真玩下去的侦探游戏,对玩家引导很友好,内容也非常丰富!丰富到你真的选狗是凶手,也能有对应的结局和对白。同时小知识科普、配音、故事线、固定人物也都很出彩。是很喜欢的游戏!!❤️
很好玩,游戏剧情特别好,让人玩的停不下来。对我这种喜欢玩探案游戏但又不爱深度思考的玩家特别友好,探案过程通过剧情加上简单思考就基本能解决谜题,不会无缘无故卡关很久,谜题也都逻辑自洽。再加上搭配上近代中国史好几章都感动的落泪。希望以后能再出续作。
好玩
好玩,剧情线设置的很精彩,人物塑造得也很不错,阿福好可爱
有幸在国际禁毒日的时候看到这款游戏。推理还行,立意不错
真是最好的中式推理游戏
Murders on the Yangtze River is an excellent mystery detective game that I strongly recommend. Where is the sequel?! Ace Attorney is a natural comparison. In short, if you like AA, playing this is a no-brainer. The writing quality and sense of progression is on par. The story is generally darker and has less humor. It feels deeply personal, yet tackles significant historical (early 20th century China) issues. The overarching plot builds up so much hype, and finishes strong. The crime solving itself is grounded; it relies on some coincidences, but doesn't feel as fantastical as Ace Attorney. The tips (facts/knowledge) were great for immersion and understanding historical context. The writers carefully point out when they took historical liberties (e.g., technologies needed to solve the case but didn't exist yet). Be aware: the game first defaults to Chinese. It's easy to change this yourself or you can look up instructions. Also, the DLC chapter has no English localization. I tried with Google Lens machine translation, but it doesn't seem to be tied to the main story, so I didn't worry about it too much since my method was tedious.
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