Mizen Tantei: The Protea Cases (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mizen Tantei: The Protea Cases

Gather information and deduce how to prevent predicted incidents before they occur. In Shinjuku City, various incidents will occur, such as assault, theft, and murder. The protagonist will team up with the…

28 July 2022

What Mizen Tantei: The Protea Cases is

Mizen Tantei: The Protea Cases is an adventure game developed by Orange and released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shinjuku, 2023. The protagonist, Chiharu Izuki, lacks self-confidence due to the trauma of once being kidnapped, and spend her days unable to help anyone at all. One day, while searching for a missing person at her detective agency job, she comes cross the mysterious app “Protea.” It was a crime prediction artificial intelligence developed by the Metropolitan Police Department and currently being tested in the Shinjuku Ward. Guided by Protea’s predictions, Chihari encounters various incidents. She meets a detective who asks for her cooperation, a mysterious boy who for some reason appears at the scene of the crime, and others. Chiharu’s new life of cooperative work to prevent incidents…

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.

What it launched against

Mizen Tantei: The Protea Cases launched on 28 July 2022, within three weeks of Stray, Cult of the Lamb, As Dusk Falls and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Stray, Cult of the Lamb, As Dusk Falls, Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Mizen Tantei: The Protea Cases — frequently asked questions