Dead Wrong Detective

※This is a quirky comedy adventure game with the style of a mystery ADV. Before purchasing, we recommend trying the free demo, which offers about one hour of gameplay, to see if the atmosphere suits you.

■ Every deduction is wrong. Every. Single. One. And yet somehow this game made me feel things.

Self-proclaimed genius detective Nanko has a 0% accuracy rate

and a 100% confidence rate.

Every time she points at a suspect and screams "The culprit is YOU!"

...it's the wrong person. Always.

Her assistant has aged 40 years in 23 episodes.

Cases still get solved though.

By accident. By sheer, beautiful, catastrophic dumb luck.

This is a story about the world's worst detective

and the assistant carrying her on his back like a Dark Souls co-op partner who does literally everything.

■ You'll be laughing for 22 episodes. Episode 23 will ruin you.

A stolen pudding. Missing underwear. A broken vase.

Goofy one-off cases where you tap to investigate,

collect evidence, and watch Nanko speedrun

being wrong about everything.

"Haha, this is just a silly comedy game."

That's what everyone says.

Then 23 episodes of throwaway gags

turn out to be a single, interconnected narrative

and every planted seed blooms in the finale.

No cap — the foreshadowing goes back to Episode 1.

When the truth drops, the comedy hits different.

You won't be laughing anymore.

(...Okay you'll still be laughing. But also crying. It's complicated.)

■ 100+ BAD ENDs — "literally unplayable" (complimentary)

There are entire storylines hiding in every wrong choice.

Ask a monster for its body measurements

and 847 village vases explode.

BAD ENDs aren't punishment. They're the endgame content.

Completionists who find them all unlock a view

that no main-route-only player will ever see.

Collecting BAD ENDs is the real speedrun.

■ New Game Plus: "The Other Truth"

The cases you solved on your first playthrough?

On NG+, the culprit changes.

The answer you thought was correct —

was it actually justice? Or were you the L all along?

Rock-paper-scissors. Cooking battles. Love confessions. Groveling.

NG+-exclusive commands reveal character sides

that make your first playthrough feel like the tutorial.

■ Grovel 39 times and items become anime girls

Cup noodles. A fridge. A broken vase. A vending machine.

Bow to them 39 times, and they awaken as characters.

"Once my three minutes are up... I'll go back to being noodles."

"You really think anyone's going to open an empty fridge?"

It's the dumbest gacha mechanic ever conceived.

So why am I not crying, you're crying.

■ Karma Record

Do something good in real life. Log it in the game.

If you lie, the game won't call you out.

The lie only stays with you.

(This mechanic is either genius or unhinged. Possibly both.)

■ 5 Languages Supported

Japanese / English / Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese / Korean

■ 9 years. 1 developer. This is that game.

Development started in 2017. Act 1 shipped in 2026.

Somewhere along the way, AI showed up and became my only coworker.

9 years of zero income. Zero recognition.

I almost quit more times than I can count.

But 111 people on TapTap wrote reviews.

"It's janky but it's fun."

"I'm rooting for you."

"When's the next update?"

If those 111 people hadn't been there,

this game would not exist.

I would have quit. That's not dramatic — that's just true.

So this game belongs to them, too.

Every single one of those 111 people

is in the credits. Because they should be.

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■ GAME FEATURES — What's Included

GAMEPLAY:

• Tap-to-investigate adventure game (point & click style)

• 23+ story stages with unique cases to solve

• Collect evidence, question suspects, present clues

• Multiple-choice deduction system

• 100+ BAD END branching paths

• New Game Plus mode with alternate culprits & exclusive commands

STORY & CHARACTERS:

• Full comedy mystery story (Volume 1 complete)

• 69 unique characters with dialogue

• Voice-acted key scenes (Japanese)

• Interconnected narrative — Episode 1 foreshadows Episode 23

COLLECTION & PROGRESSION:

• Bishoujo Collection — transform items into anime girl characters

• Idle Battle system with team formation

• Character skin shop with 50+ skins

• Custom skin upload (use your own art)

• Achievement stages with bonus stories

EXTRAS:

• Karma Record — log real-life good deeds

• BGM player (30+ tracks, customizable)

• Relationship map

• Rock-paper-scissors minigame (NG+ exclusive)

• Cooking system (NG+ exclusive)

• Developer commentary stage

LANGUAGES:

• Japanese / English / Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese / Korean

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EARLY ACCESS

What's playable now:

All features listed above are available and fully playable.

We plan to add:

Volume 2+ story content — Stay tuned!

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■ Made with AI. So it HAS to be a masterpiece.

Art, music, story, localization — all made with AI.

That means I borrowed the combined knowledge of all humanity.

If you use the collective wisdom of the entire human race

and still ship a bad game,

that's not a skill issue — that's an insult to civilization itself.

So this game is a masterpiece.

It has to be.

There is literally no other acceptable outcome.

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Available at an affordable Early Access price.

Price may increase at full release.

Find the culprit before the price finds you.

— Kakuna (9 years of development, single, bald, huge W pending)