Dark Auction (AppID: 2363180)

A deep, compelling mystery adventure with a script and scenario written by Rika Suzuki, known for her brilliant work on Another Code and Hotel Dusk: Room 215. Also featuring character design by Kohske, the author/illustrator of GANGSTA., and music by Monster Hunter composer, Yuko Komiyama. Directed and produced by Shinsuke Umeda (IzanagiGames).

Game features:

- Explore freely within an ancient castle rendered in 3D

- Use your reasoning skills to piece together clues from the Word Cloud system.

- Join an auction where the truth is revealed about the past

Information gathered during the exploration phase is stored in a feature called the “Word Cloud.”

These collected keywords can then be used during the auction phase to help solve its many mysteries.

In this world, what you need to bid on an item isn’t money—it’s memory.

Participants use a memory-reproduction device known as EPO, offering fragments of their own memories as payment to compete in the auction.

However, memories burdened by secrets or trauma are often distorted, blurred, or even rewritten into false versions of the past.

If the memories offered are incomplete or corrupted, the auction will fail.

Acting as a supporter, Noah must step in to restore each target’s memories to their true form.

When an auction succeeds, a hidden truth is revealed—and with it, the strange and fateful stories behind each auctioned item are set free.

Story:

1981, Somewhere in Europe.

Eighteen-year-old Noah is haunted by the memory of his mother abandoning him at a very young age.

He lives with his father Leonardo, a failed writer and eccentric obsessed with researching “Dictator X.”

Though Noah wishes he would stop, Leonardo refuses to give up this strange pursuit, even as they struggle financially.

One day, an invitation arrives for an auction selling items connected to “Dictator X.”

Ignoring Noah’s protests, Leonardo sets off for the ancient castle where the auction is to be held, promising to tell Noah everything once he returns.

But Leonardo never comes home. With no way to contact him, Noah heads to the castle himself—only to witness something shocking.

Now trapped inside with the other guests, Noah is invited by the mysterious auctioneer to take part in the event himself.

Characters

Noah Crawford (VA. Kengo Kawanishi)

Leonard Crawford (VA. Rikiya Koyama)

Edgar Schulz (VA. Daisuke Namikawa)

Christoph Treheim von Berg (VA. Nobunaga Shimazaki)

Otto Klein (VA. Shunsuke Takeuchi)

Karla Becker (VA. Maaya Uchida)

Lorraine Klopp (VA. Yui Ishikawa)

Hell (VA. Akira Ishida)

Auctioneer (VA. Show Hayami)

Title: Dark Auction

Genre: Mystery adventure

Development / marketing: IzanagiGames

Original story / scenario: Rika Suzuki (Another Code and Hotel Dusk: Room 215)

Character design: Kohske (GANGSTA.)

Soundtrack: Yuko Komiyama (Monster Hunter series)

Directed and produced: Shinsuke Umeda (IzanagiGames)

Copyright notice: © IzanagiGames, Inc. / GOOD SMILE COMPANY

*This game tells the tale of a group of young people who resolve to strive for a peaceful future after learning of the past. While historical war-related recollections appear as motifs at times during the story, this game does not, in any way, seek to glorify or promote the crimes of war.