TOUQI Folk horror in the posts

You start as a new member of the Xifeng magazine staff, and your first job is not writing. It is reading. The editor hands you the "頭七" forum, a board where people post folk tales of the supernatural, and asks you to work out how the posts relate to each other. One thread mentions a village. Another, written years apart, circles back to it. You gather the pieces, follow the links, and slowly a picture forms that no single post shows. The forum itself carries the atmosphere: it reads like a real corner of the internet where strange things are taken seriously, and it is the part that pulls you in first.

This is a story-driven game in visual novel form: you read, you choose, and the plot branches around your decisions. Choices matter, and the story holds multiple endings, so a second run can land somewhere very different from the first. The text is enormous, and the cast grows as you go, with each character carrying their own history and their own sins. One honest note: the pacing is slow, and the story takes its time getting where it is going. If you like long, winding narratives you can sink dozens of hours into, that patience is rewarded. If you want tight and fast, this is not it.

The detective work is the core. You read case-like posts, compare details, and decide which stories are connected and which are noise. When the forum runs dry, you and your companions go into the field to investigate in person, checking what the posts claimed against what is actually there. The game is built as a word game as much as a puzzle: the clues hide in the phrasing, in what a poster chose to leave out. Nothing announces itself. You piece the truth together yourself, and the game's darker secrets stay buried until you have earned them.