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Opens on 2026-06-30 (JST)
You are dead, and the one you love cannot see, hear, or touch you. You have forty-nine days to haunt your way back into a living person's fate.
A pixel-art point-and-click adventure by KANEKODO, the work of a Japanese solo doujin creator, published by KEMCO. You play a girl who has become a ghost, with forty-nine days before you pass on. The one you love, called only kimi (you), is still alive and cannot perceive you at all, so you reach for them by the only means a ghost has: speaking into air that does not carry, stirring a poltergeist, standing at the edge of their dream, or laying a curse. Because they cannot sense you, every attempt is guesswork, a dark comedy laced with horror about changing a fate from the far side of death. Choices come once a week over seven turns, a deliberately spare structure carried by dense, feeling-heavy writing, running roughly one to two hours across six endings. It is Very Positive at 93 percent over 356 reviews and already supports English, yet with only about 27.5 percent of its reviews in English, the West has barely begun to find it.
Published 2026-06-30
01First, the one feeling
- The whole game rests on a cruel asymmetry: the person you most want to reach cannot see, hear, or touch you, so you can never simply tell them anything. You only have a ghost's blunt instruments, words that do not carry, rattled objects, a dream you slip into, a curse, and you have to guess how each one lands on someone who has no idea you are there. Reaching them at all, by inches, becomes the entire feeling.
- Time is not infinite. You get one move a week across seven turns inside a forty-nine-day countdown, so the structure is deliberately spare, and each choice carries weight precisely because you cannot take many. It is the Ghost Trick pull of a ghost bending the world to change a living person's fate, slowed down and turned inward, where the question is less how do I solve this and more what is the one thing I can still do for them before I have to go.
- It does not play its premise as pure tragedy. A ghost fumbling poltergeists at a person who cannot perceive her is as often funny as it is sad, and the tone swings between dark comedy and quiet horror within a single scene. Six endings of about fifteen minutes each, a prequel and a sequel, and a recollection gallery make it a thing you finish and then turn over again, reading the same forty-nine days toward a different end.
02Who this is for (and who it is not)
For you
- You loved Ghost Trick's idea of a ghost reaching into the living world to change someone's fate, and you want it slowed into something quieter and more intimate, a forty-nine-day countdown spent haunting the one person you cannot reach
- You want a short, dense, feeling-heavy adventure you can finish in one or two hours, six endings of about fifteen minutes each plus a prequel and sequel and a recollection gallery, carried by its writing rather than by long systems
- You want a Japanese solo-made gem the West has barely found, Very Positive at 93 percent over 356 reviews, already supporting English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Korean, the handmade pixel-art work of KANEKODO published by KEMCO
Not for you
- You want long, mechanically deep gameplay; this is a deliberately spare, story-first adventure of one to two hours, choices once a week over seven turns, a paid title carried by its writing far more than by its systems
- You are put off by death and grief as central themes, or you expect a big-studio production; this is a small doujin work by a solo creator (KEMCO publishes it, but it is not a big-studio title), its ratings call out heavy themes around death though Steam itself flags no sexual content, and its audience is still mostly Japanese and Chinese-speaking, with only about 27 percent of reviews in English
03The roots of this taste
93% positiveonly 356 reviews — yet almost no one has found it
Decollate Decoration Buried gem
A pixel-art point-and-click adventure by KANEKODO, the work of a Japanese solo doujin creator, published by KEMCO. You play a girl who has become a ghost, with forty-nine days before you pass on. The one you love, called only kimi (you), is still alive and cannot perceive you at all, so you reach for them by the only means a ghost has: speaking into air that does not carry, stirring a poltergeist, standing at the edge of their dream, or laying a curse. Because they cannot sense you, every attempt is guesswork, a dark comedy laced with horror about trying to change a fate from the far side of death. Choices come once a week over seven turns, a deliberately spare structure carried by dense, feeling-heavy writing, and the whole runs roughly one to two hours across six endings, plus a prequel and sequel of about an hour, a recollection gallery, and an ending list. It is Very Positive at 93 percent over 356 reviews (333 positive, 23 negative), and it already supports Japanese, English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Korean. Yet with only 98 of its 356 reviews in English (about 27.5 percent), and the rest mostly Japanese and Chinese, the West has barely begun to find it. Released in January 2026, it is a paid title, not free, fully launched and not in Early Access, with no AI-generated assets. Its ratings flag heavy themes around death, but Steam itself sets no sexual content descriptor.
Give it your first passGhost Trick: Phantom Detective The haunting origin
The origin of this taste: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a puzzle adventure directed by Shu Takumi (of the Ace Attorney series) and released by Capcom for the Nintendo DS in 2010, with a Steam remaster in 2023. You play a spirit who, robbed of his memories on the night of his death, can possess and manipulate objects in the world and rewind to the four minutes before a person dies, bending the physical world to change their fate before time runs out. That core, a ghost reaching into the living world under a clock to rewrite a fate, is the root Decollate Decoration grows from, turning the puzzle-box energy inward into a quiet, forty-nine-day story of haunting the one person you love but cannot reach. The 2010 original is anchored here to its 2023 Steam remaster.
Give it your first pass04Make this gem shine
If it speaks to you, check it on Steam and give it your first pass. Your push is what makes a buried gem shine.
You gave it your pass. The gem just caught the light.
05The bloodline of this taste
- Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Root
- Decollate Decoration You are here
- Read-and-build games another taste