Name: Miracle Detective
Brand: Steam
Price: 9.47 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Miracle Detective is listed at $9.47 on Steam.

Miracle Detective is at full price right now. We track it so you will see the moment a genuine discount lands.

The lowest we have tracked is $5.68, so this is not quite the floor.

As a recent release, discounts this early are relatively uncommon.

Genre: Adventure · Developer: TAKA's factory · Release: Jun 19, 2026.

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About this game

How it plays

Miracle Detective is a visual novel through and through, which means the “gameplay” is mostly reading, choosing, and paying attention. You follow Kotaro Mochizuki, a high schooler who runs his school’s detective club with Natsumi Higazaki, as small, oddball mysteries land on their doorstep. A wall that seems to be transmitting noises it shouldn’t. A painting with a bad reputation. A love letter written in some kind of cipher. Each case starts out looking like the sort of thing you’d shrug off, and the fun is in watching the story slowly reveal that some of these “ordinary” problems aren’t ordinary at all. There’s a free demo covering the prologue and first episode, so you can get a real sense of the pacing and writing style before deciding whether to commit to the full game. One thing to flag clearly: it’s currently Japanese-only, with English support only a maybe down the line, so that’s a real barrier depending on your reading ability.

Who it’s for

If you already like visual novels, mystery fiction, or the specific flavor of Japanese school-life storytelling where the supernatural creeps in at the edges, this is aimed squarely at you. It rewards patience and a willingness to sit with dialogue-heavy scenes rather than chase mechanical challenge. If you’re after combat, exploration, or anything with reflexes involved, this isn’t that game, and it never claims to be. And realistically, if you don’t read Japanese, this one’s off the table for now no matter how appealing the premise sounds. That demo becomes even more useful here: it’s the easiest way to find out firsthand whether the mystery hooks you or the language barrier stops you cold.

Is it worth it?

For readers who fit the target audience, a well-told mystery visual novel from a small developer is often a pretty efficient use of a gaming budget since the value is in the writing rather than production scale. Games like this tend to be smart sale picks precisely because they’re narrative-focused: once you’ve experienced the story, replay value comes mainly from wanting to revisit favorite scenes rather than fresh content, so there’s little downside to waiting for a discount if you’re on the fence. Try the demo first. If the mystery grabs you and the language isn’t a dealbreaker, it’s the kind of title worth adding to a wishlist and picking up when the price drops rather than paying full price on a whim.