SEASON OF MYSTERY: The Cherry Blossom Murders
Fair · Short indie · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 327 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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About the game
Your husband Richard lies dead beneath the cherry blossoms of Old Japan, and the police are of no help. Step into history and uncover the truth when no one else will. Find devilishly hidden clues, explore exotic locales, and bring the killer to justice!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, On-Board, 184 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 66 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends ($1.99, scores 53).
More about SEASON OF MYSTERY: The Cherry Blossom Murders
Steam's global achievement data puts 59 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
90% start to 59% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
The late 19th-century Japanese setting is beautifully styled, but the core gameplay is a pretty standard, paint-by-numbers hidden object experience. While the narrative keeps you somewhat engaged in the detective work, the puzzles and mini-games are incredibly easy and offer zero real challenge. You also end up backtracking through the exact same environments way too often, which artificially pads out the playtime...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This was a fun hidden object game. The story was good and the H/O scenes, even when revisited always had new items with the previous ones so it wasn't hard replay to get 100 % achievements. I enjoyed enough to replay the second(and final) time to finish the last of them!
Please read this review as to why I don't recommend this game. Honestly, I loved it but the cons outweigh the pros here. SEASON OF MYSTERY: The Cherry Blossom Murders is a hidden-object game in a mystery genre that takes place in the 1890s of Japan. First...I'll start with the good: The story. Story: The story follows Irene, an american woman who came to Japan with her husband. Irene's husband was murdered and...
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Cite this score
SEASON OF MYSTERY: The Cherry Blossom Murders scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/39110/season-of-mystery-the-cherry-blossom-murdersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.