A free horror adventure from a Japanese developer, where the livestream goes into a house with a curse.

Kyuukyuu Enshi Buried gem

Per its Steam store page and press reports, Kyuukyuu Enshi (糺糺縁糸) is a horror adventure that gamebiz headlines as an exploration-type modern legend horror ADV. Two high-school girls, Yukari Ikoma, a psychic livestreamer, and Aoi Mikasa, her camera operator, visit a ruined house rumored to be the scene of a family massacre and are drawn into supernatural phenomena and a curse (per press reports). You explore a top-down map to gather clues, solve puzzles, make choices and run from the apparitions, and the story branches into multiple endings. Steam's user tags include Horror, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Exploration, Mystery and Visual Novel. The maker is Okage Factory (おかゲ制作所), the developer on Steam; the publisher is Gotcha Gotcha Games. Japanese development rests on the Steam store page (Japanese is the only supported language, and its website is a Japanese-language Google Sites page), on the developer's own pages (that Google Sites page and an itch.io page under okagefactory), and on gamebiz reporting that Okage Factory developed it and Gotcha Gotcha Games published it. The game was released on July 23, 2026, is free (Free To Play, not Early Access). On Steam it is Very Positive: 49 of 50 reviews are positive, about 98 percent. By language, 25 are Japanese, 23 Simplified Chinese, 1 English, 0 Traditional Chinese, 0 Korean and 1 other, so Japanese is the largest group but only by 2 reviews over Simplified Chinese. Steam supports Japanese only and does not support English. Steam's content descriptor IDs are 2 (Frequent Violence or Gore) and 5 (General Mature Content); the developer's note lists violence in confronting apparitions (shown through character sprites and sound effects), damage to apparitions in certain chapters, blood in specific ending routes, jump scares, chase sequences and expressions implying self-harm or suicide, and abusive language as part of the story's setting. The required age is 0, and press reports describe it as R15-equivalent horror. Steam carries an AI disclosure: ChatGPT was used for flavor text, proofreading and idea support, and Midjourney for backgrounds, items and part of the apparition visuals, with the final structure and expression decided and adjusted by the creator. This is not an undiscovered title in Japan: Famitsu, 4Gamer, gamebiz (on the store page opening and the free release), Denfaminico Gamer, Gamer and AppBank have covered it. It has barely reached English speakers, with only 1 English review.

Twilight Syndrome The origin

The origin of this taste: Twilight Syndrome (Wikidata Q7662337), the site's anchor for the paranormal adventure in which schoolgirls walk through a town and a school, investigate rumors and apparitions, and the story branches into multiple endings. No official Steam release. The link to Kyuukyuu Enshi is this site's own reading, not a claim by the developer: no developer statement naming Twilight Syndrome and no review naming it was found, and nobody is cited as saying Kyuukyuu Enshi was influenced by it or pays homage to it. What carries over is the structure: schoolgirls go to a place rumored to be haunted, investigate it, are drawn into the supernatural, and the story branches. Where they differ: Kyuukyuu Enshi sends a livestreamer and her camera operator to a ruined house rumored to be the scene of a family massacre that they choose to investigate themselves, and it adds exploration of a top-down map and chase sequences; it is also free and supports Japanese only.