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阎罗索命
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A short, story-driven text adventure about investigating serial murders in Song-dynasty China, with light deduction and period-accurate costumes.

Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
A point-and-click murder mystery in Tang Dynasty China with a memorable setting but forgettable narrative.
2019-05-01
- Puzzle

Adventure

Third person

Indie

Simulator

Role-playing (RPG)

Historical

Mystery

Point-and-click

Educational

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Murders on the Yangtze River

An Ace Attorney-like detective game set in early 20th-century China, where you solve murder cases through clue-gathering, interrogation, and deduction over a ~17-hour, historically atmospheric campaign.

2024-01-30

Adventure
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)
Historical
Mystery

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穿越日记

A short, single-player, choice-driven visual novel about a modern woman navigating imperial court intrigue, with branching storylines and multiple endings.

2025-09-30

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命运之轮（序章）/Journey of Destiny(dependent origination)

A Chinese xianxia visual novel about a relic dispute, with branching choices, multiple endings, and a suspenseful plot involving time travel and soul fusion, taking roughly 16–20 hours.

2026-05-31

Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Visual Novel

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Long Knives

A choice-driven oriental mystery with branching narrative and a dice system that shapes the journey, playable in about six to seven hours.

2025-12-31

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Text

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吾皇万岁

A choice-driven strategy sim about ruling a turbulent ancient Chinese dynasty as a young monarch, with political maneuvering that one reviewer found engaging for over a hundred hours.

2026-06-05

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Late Ming: Reborn in Flames

A 2D open-world visual novel about a time traveler building relationships among late-Ming factions, with a slow story and rough technical polish.

2025-11-14

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Tyrant of the Southern Dynasty

A brief choice-driven historical political drama in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, dark in tone, with a reviewer-reported playtime of about 20-30 minutes.

2026-01-22

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Mohism: Battle of Words

A wuxia-set detective adventure where you solve cases via investigation and verbal showdowns, lasting around 10 hours.

2023-04-17

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Clouds Faraway

A Chinese-only single-player RPG set in the Three Kingdoms era, following a young swordsman and his friends through a dramatic historical adventure, with a roughly 13.5-hour campaign.

2023-01-11

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Shanghai1920

A short suspenseful visual novel about a 1920s Shanghai police detective investigating a murder, with an emotional ending and eerie early atmosphere.

2021-07-20

Role-playing (RPG)

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Project Search

A compact visual novel of Chinese immortality cultivation, following scholar Qian Jiangmin's investigation of collapsed pagodas and his brother's disappearance, with a mysterious tone and roughly 90 minutes of play.

2024-11-16

Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)