Underplayed Gems

Silver Jiken (1999)

Silver Jiken cover
Developer
Grasshopper Manufacture
Publisher
Grasshopper Manufacture, ASCII Entertainment
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS
Genres
Puzzle, Adventure, Visual Novel

How it feels

a tense, cerebral crime investigation that unfolds like a shadowy puzzle box of past and present murders.

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About

This debut game from developer Goichi Suda (also known as Suda51) follows the investigation of a series of murders which appear to match the profile of the killer responsible for a high-profile series of government assassinations twenty years prior.

Screenshots

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