Chiyo

About

Chiyo is a first-person escape room game with horror elements set in Japan’s Edo era. You play as Idate Chiyo, a paranormal investigator using supernatural abilities to explore an abandoned mansion. The game focuses on solving puzzles, uncovering a family’s dark history, and surviving encounters with malevolent spirits. Exploration is key, with environmental clues tying together the mansion’s secrets and the protagonist’s mysterious powers. The game leans heavily into its atmospheric setting, with intricate puzzles and a slow-burn narrative that ties spirits to the estate’s past. Reviews highlight its tense pacing and creative traps, though some note the learning curve for its mechanics. Developed by Nimbus Games and released in January 2024, it has a small but dedicated following for its blend of historical and supernatural storytelling.

Storyline

Play as Idate Chiyo, a newly recruited paranormal investigator of the Tokugawa Shogunate's Magical Arcane Division, tasked with her first assignment to investigate some strange occurrences reported to have originated from an abandoned mansion on the forested interior of the small coastal city of Gōtsu in Shimane Prefecture. Within the mansion, Chiyo encounters strange and malevolent spirits, devious contraptions and puzzles and a dark family history that will threaten her survival.