Kiteretsu Soudan Dial

Kiteretsu Soudan Dial is a supernatural-investigation adventure set in Japan in 1994, where strange beings are real but are increasingly used for pranks and crimes. You play Misako, a new counselor at the Tokyo-based free phone service Kiteretsu Advice Center, and take on a one-week trial. You compare callers’ accounts with reference files to decide whether their troubles were caused by a supernatural being: a case is genuine if there are no contradictions, and fake if you find even one.

Randomized cases

The caller, the supernatural being involved and the subject of each consultation are all chosen at random. The game features 100 beings, and the cases change between playthroughs as you work toward encountering all of them. The story takes about 2 to 10 hours, depending greatly on the difficulty settings. Game overs are possible, and the story has branching endings.

Set the difficulty

You can adjust the time limit, maximum life and whether note-taking is automated or manual. Your chosen difficulty adds bonus points to your daily evaluations, and completing the game earns a rank from D to S.

Master mode

Earning rank A or higher unlocks Master Mode. The advice center has purified salt imbued with special power to protect counselors from supernatural beings; in this mode, you can skip using it and deliberately risk being attacked. The beings that appear are those that manifest near someone who has heard their story, so check the reference files carefully when a caller reports one of them.