The Bureau of Records hands you one task: restore the complete record of a death game held on a remote island a few days ago, and submit a report. All that remains are the records the dead left behind in their final moments, and a single aging terminal. You type in a record name to restore a broken record, read the memory the victim left behind, then cross-reference clues scattered through it against the student roster and the island map to work out the cause, the weapon and the culprit for each death, one at a time. Every time three correct reports line up, they are confirmed, and the remaining records begin to connect to one another.

Chart credential: Steam 250 seven-day chart position #3 for the week of 5 September 2026, down one place from the previous day. Score 8.27 from 599 reviews at 96 percent positive. Released 1 September 2026.

Language note: Steam lists Japanese as the only supported language. This is a text-heavy deduction game in which reading is the entire mechanic, so it is currently not playable without Japanese. We are flagging that up front because the chart position does not make it obvious.

Key features

The terminal is the interface, not a theme

Plenty of games dress a menu up as a retro computer. Here the typing is the puzzle: you must know a record name before you can request it, so progress is gated by what you have deduced rather than by what you have clicked. That inverts the usual adventure-game problem where the player exhausts every option until something works — here there is nothing to exhaust, only things to work out.

Answers are confirmed in threes

Reports lock in only when three correct ones line up. This is a quiet but clever piece of design: it stops single lucky guesses from cascading, and it gives you a self-check that is not a hint system. You find out you were wrong from the structure of the game rather than from a message telling you so, which keeps the deduction honest.

Records interlock as you fill them in

Each solved death connects the remaining records to one another, so the difficulty curve runs the opposite way to most mysteries: the opening is the hardest part and the endgame accelerates. That is why the 96 percent rating holds up across 599 reviews — the payoff is structural, and players who push through the first hour tend to finish.

Where to find it

The Death Game Report is on Steam at $3.99 with no current discount. It is single-player with Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud and save-anytime support. Japanese language only. View The Death Game Report on Steam.

Frequently asked questions

Is The Death Game Report in English?

No. Steam lists Japanese as the only supported language at the time of writing. Because the game is played entirely by reading and typing text, it is not currently playable without Japanese.

How much does The Death Game Report cost?

3.99 dollars on Steam, with no discount applied at the time of writing.

What kind of game is The Death Game Report?

A single-player deduction game played at a simulated terminal. You restore records of deaths on an island, then identify the cause, weapon and culprit for each one and submit a report.

How highly rated is The Death Game Report?

It holds a 8.27 Steam 250 score from 599 reviews, 96 percent positive, and reached number 3 on the Steam 250 seven-day chart in the week of 5 September 2026.

Who made The Death Game Report?

An independent developer credited as shu3, who is also the publisher.

Who made The Death Game Report

shu3 developed The Death Game Report. You can see their other games and where to follow them on the shu3 studio page.