Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a pleasant surprise from Squire Enix, a brilliant work of art that sets the genre's standard even higher. The game's dialogue-heavy design, and unexpected turns demand players' full focus.

Paranormasight is a must play. Puzzle-solving, Japanese folk tales, and rooting around to unravel a murder-filled mystery — what more could you want?

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a surprisingly excellent horror mystery-adventure game that's tricky to talk about, and is an easy recommendation to anyone that's the slightest bit interested in it.

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a visual novel wrapped around the occult, murder mysteries and layers upon layers of intrigue. It’s set in Honjo, Tokyo’s Sumira Ward in the Showa period of 1926-1989. It’s one of many recent atypical and experimental projects developed and published by Square Enix. Filled with inventive gameplay for the genre along with surprises and scares at many ...

Sumida and its urban legends come to life in PARANORMASIGHT in a way I didn’t expect from a 2D visual novel. I expected something artistic, yes, but I got something that engaged me, sent a shiver down my spine, and that I ultimately couldn’t put down.

Paranormasight makes me feel like the visual novel genre has been held back by largely adhering to a formula first created 40 years ago. It makes its evolutionary steps seem effortless, simple, and long overdue. But more importantly, it tells an excellent story that defies expectations. So, as long as you’re up for some reading and a bit of thinking, Paranormasight is one you shouldn’t miss.

Back at the young age of twenty-nine, my mental health took a scary turn. It left me no other option but to step away from writing. As it stood, I was dangerously teetering on the edge of depression. It was only after a year or two of marinating in that couch potato lifestyle that those terrible thoughts finally subsided, and I slowly began healing. I was also starting to feel the itch again – not...

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is something a little left-field from Square Enix, but we’re very glad it exists. With its budget price, this should serve as an enticing intro to the visual novel genre for many, while those who are already fans of the genre will simply lap it up. A dark narrative with lashings of humour and some clever gameplay touches make this one of the best surpri...

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a fantastic interactive visual novel that plays flawlessly on the Steam Deck without any changes needed!

With an engaging story about urban legends bolstered by a branching storyline, Paranormasight hovers over other visual novels with its many interactive elements. It suffers from the curses of certain puzzles that prove arbitrary and a story that gets spread too thin. But the captivating characters and central mystery keep the tale of this mystery-adventure title as one legend worth spreading.

Navigate a world of information and folklore in this memorably moody visual novel.

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a horror mystery adventure from Square Enix available on PC and Switch. The game provides an interesting supernatural mystery with plenty of twists and turns.