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Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku

Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku is the first chapter of a horror movie sold exclusively through the Dreamcast Direct online service. The film is divided into 365 episodes, each lasting one minute. It…

30 September 1999

Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku is an adventure developed by ASCII Entertainment & Communications, released 30 September 1999 on Dreamcast.

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What Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku is

Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku is an adventure game developed by ASCII Entertainment & Communications and released in 1999. It was published by Sega. It is available on Dreamcast only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The main character of Grauen no Torikago is a 16-year-old schoolgirl named Nao Tsunoda. Recently, she decided to start living separately from her parents - and moved to Tokyo’s Grauenheim apartment complex. But one day, Nao’s life turns into a nightmare when she suddenly discovers the headless corpse of her neighbor (Erica Shimizu) on the roof of the house. And having entered a neighbor's apartment, Nao sees an even more eerie scene: music from the opera Faust plays in the room, and Erica’s severed head hangs from the ceiling and makes strange howling sounds! The killer snapped the girl's head and connected it through a hose to the gas pipe so that the head “sang” to the music from the CD…
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

What it launched against

Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku launched on 30 September 1999, within three weeks of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Homeworld and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Homeworld, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku come out?
Grauen no Torikago: Kapitel 1 - Keiyaku was released on 30 September 1999 for Dreamcast.

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