Homicipher

Homicipher is a point-and-click adventure about a protagonist who wakes up lost in another world and searches for a way to escape. To make progress, you investigate objects and speak with mysterious monsters, learning to interpret their strange language through their expressions, gestures and the things they point to.

Decipher the language

The other world’s language is less refined than human languages: each word carries a concentrated meaning, and there are almost no particles. A string of words conveys only a rough meaning. Investigating items teaches you words, while conversations help you understand the characters. The game is designed for replaying scenes; filling the dictionary can help you understand conversations when you watch them again.

Choices and endings

You can choose actions at various points. Choices may cause small changes in how events unfold, open branching paths or lead to instant death. Even after a game over, you can retry from just before it without a penalty. There is no affection management system, and acquiring flags unlocks more choices. You can also jump back to previously encountered scenes from the chapters and try different options.

There are 20 types of mid-story endings, including bad endings and unresolved problems, and 17 endings in total, including character-route endings and late-stage endings reached in Chapter 5. A fake ending presented as a happy ending appears midway through the story. Completing one full playthrough of all routes takes about 5 hours. Sound is recommended because the game includes sound-based effects.