Charade Maniacs (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Charade Maniacs

Charade Maniacs is an otome visual novel full of romance, mystery, and adventure. In the near future... Summer break was around the corner. Hiyori Sena, a sophomore in high school, was living a peaceful life…

70 9 August 2018

What Charade Maniacs is

Charade Maniacs is an adventure game developed by Otomate and released in 2018. It was published by Idea Factory. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation Vita, Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the near future, in a certain city. With summer break just around the corner, the protagonist Hiyori enjoys a peaceful life as a 2nd-year high school student. But one day as she and her childhood friend are heading home after school a mysterious figure suddenly appears before them and they are taken away to a strange world where two moons exist. She notices nine other people who have been put in the same situation. While they are trying to figure out what is going on a masked man begins to speak. "Welcome to another world, Arcadia!" "In this world, as long as you perform our 'drama', all of your wishes will be granted!" In order to leave this parallel universe and return to the real…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are mystery and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Charade Maniacs holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Charade Maniacs launched on 9 August 2018, within three weeks of Dead Cells, The Messenger, Overcooked! 2 and Two Point Hospital. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dead Cells, The Messenger, Overcooked! 2, Two Point Hospital.

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