Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Urban Myth Dissolution Center is a seriously compelling adventure game, thanks to its intriguing narrative and spooky elements.

If you can’t tell by now, I’m deeply in love with this game. I just don’t want to give away too much yet. But I believe it tells an important story about the made-up, easily digestible realities behind the complicated, horrible events in our day-to-day lives. About social media white knight justice as a feel-good spectator sport and how we treat tragedies, culprits, and their victims in our always-online world. This game couldn’t have come out at a better time. In light of recent events, perpetrated by the convenient realities many of us love to escape into, it is important to remember that th...

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game! PC version reviewed. Review copy provided by company for testing purposes.

If you like psychological horror, thrillers, mysteries, and the atmosphere of ghost stories, you’ll enjoy Urban Myth Dissolution Center. If you prefer your games to have actual gameplay beyond gathering and assembling information, you probably won’t. But please give this title a shot just for the sheer experience of playing it. It’s an unsettling gem.

I'm a sucker for creepy urban legend stories and Urban Myth Dissolution Center tells them with such style.

Mysteries, individual cases, and the overarching story are both exciting and satisfying. I was pretty upset by where the story went but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Even just replaying the opening scene, I was immediately shown the breadcrumbs for what the story would become. Impressive, really.

A stylish but slow-paced mystery anthology that's just a little too sluggish for its own good.

Most of us have grown up hearing about urban legends, like the man with a hook for a hand terrorizing teenagers trying to make out, or the Loch Ness Monster, or even Polybius, the famed ultra-rare video game that caused migraines and even heart attacks to those who played it. How many of us attempted to conjure Bloody Mary by saying her name three times in front of a mirror in a darkened room? I know I certainly have many times at sleepovers. But what do you do when an urban myth manifests it...

Investigate cursed objects, haunted bedrooms, and underground nether realms in Urban Myth Dissolution Center, a mystery adventure game with some deliciously crunchy pixel art and a whole lot of spooky stories to tell.

Urban Myth Dissolution Center is a chilling, gripping paranormal mystery visual novel that challenges you to research and identify some truly memorable urban myths.

Even if some of Urban Myth Dissolution Center's mysteries are rather straightforward to solve, the overall experience is still reasonably enjoyable to amble through. If you're looking for a more laid-back occult mystery, it's here, but don't expect the myths to be too legendary.

All in all, it’s tough for me to pin down my feelings regarding Urban Myth Dissolution Center. Between its sumptuous pixel art, vibrant personalities and unabashed nerdiness, it’s a game that I admire a lot. (I haven’t even mentioned the music and sound design, which perfectly sell the game’s paranoid atmosphere.) But the final scenes left a bad taste in my mouth, and that’s just enough to sink a game that in other respects struggles to express its love of mysteries through real sys...