Publisher Imagineer and developer ToyBox Inc. have announced Mystery Walk, a new mystery and drama visual novel coming later this year.

Mystery Walk is in development for Nintendo Switch and will later in 2024 for Japan, on December 12th, 2024.

Here’s a rundown on the game, plus its reveal trailer:

A completely new work by ToyBox and the start of a three-part drama series!

The setting is the summer resort “Narumisawa”, a charming fictional town that you may have seen somewhere before. The story is a serial drama of a prologue, 10 episodes, and a +? episode that goes back and forth between the present and the past to uncover the truth behind an unsolved case from 30 years ago, and various mysteries deepen.

You’ll want to play the next episode. Pay attention to the full voice dialogue by talented voice actors, including some unexpected characters in the voice cast… We hope you will enjoy the world of “How to Walk a Mystery”.

Story

The Sanmeiso Incident. Also known as the “Narumisawa Landscape Painter Murder Case.”

Thirty years ago, a famous painter, Uchida Suiryu, was murdered on the grounds of a pavilion in Narumisawa. His body was found by a pond, and it was a strange one. The police investigation proceeded, but the case ended with the suspect’s death.

Thirty years have passed and members attending Ayame Minato’s seminar, a young expert in criminal psychology, have come all the way to investigate the case as their research project.

The facts that gradually come to light, and the suspects that emerge. They get to the bottom of the unsolved case. And the hearts hidden behind their cheerful behavior are also revealed…

This is Niche Imports. In this column, we regularly cover games that haven’t been announced for western audiences yet.