Nintendo revives Famicom Detective Club in year of mystery | Kaser Focus

As both a mystery game fan and a Person in the Games Industry, I would like to hereby dub 2024 the Year of the Mystery Game. We’ve gotten a new Nancy Drew game, two Ace Attorney collections (which I’m hoping against all odds means we might get a new game at some point in the future), a Golden Idol sequel and now Nintendo has announced it’s making a new Famicom Detective Club game. Specifically, the game is called Emio — The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, and it launches on August 29.

The Emio reveal was especially enjoyable for me, as I hadn’t played the Famicom Detective Club games before Nintendo remastered the duology for Switch in 2021. The fact that they managed to revive such an old franchise to the point where they’re making an entirely new game — not to mention giving the new game some focused viral marketing — makes me very hopeful for not only the future of mystery adventure games but older franchises generally.