MeiQi 2024

MeiQi 2024 is a 3D narrative detective puzzle game set in 1990s Hepingli. As Liu Qingchun, bureau chief of the 403 Intelligence Division, you investigate six cases through on-site searches, clue gathering and deduction. You can switch freely between first- and third-person perspectives. The game includes puzzles and some horror elements, and offers relatively little guidance.

The cases

The investigation begins after Liu Qingchun falls asleep at home and enters a distorted dream set in his own bedroom. He later enters the Chemical Bureau dormitory alone, where he feels an unseen presence and faces the blurred boundary between reality and illusion. As he searches for clues with help from the 403 Intelligence Division, he uncovers secrets hidden beneath the everyday lives of those involved.

A new murder complicates what first seemed like a straightforward case. Wen Sanren is involved, while Li Shufu and Li Bai Si have disappeared. Bai Lian, a woman believed to have died years earlier, has reappeared at the dormitory. Wen Sanren and Wang Zhiqiang have also vanished without a trace. Liu Qingchun must piece together these events and the deeper truth beneath them.

Another case is reported on Pingheli East Street: a man armed with a knife injures three people and kills a neighboring girl. His loss of self-control resembles Wang Aiguo’s earlier symptoms. Liu Qingchun also follows leads involving bamboo slips and the location of the Phoenix Chamber, which point to a compass.

A wider mystery

The cases form part of a series of mysterious events that begins when detective Liu Qingchun encounters the Sun Meiqi secret-room murder case. In MeiQi 2024, revenge, the search for truth and the struggle between justice and evil run through an investigation shaped by the mysterious threats of Lang Yun and Wen Sanren.