The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story

The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story

Released May 2022

Unravel the mysteries of death, and find the answers to life.A unique Mystery-Adventure Game:The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story

79% positive · 1,121 reviews
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Evaluation

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story launched on May 12, 2022 as a self-contained live-action mystery-adventure game. Both of its DLC items — a Behind the Scenes bonus film and a 4K Video Pack — shipped on the launch day and June 21, 2022 respectively, and are supplementary content rather than story expansions. Following launch, Square Enix issued a couple of bug fix patches (June and August 2022) and released a free demo in September 2022. The most recent developer communication was a minor bug fix patch on October 14, 2025. There are no unreleased DLC items, no announced future content, no roadmap, and no indication of planned expansions. The game was designed as a complete, finite narrative experience and has been treated as such by the developer since release.
Evidence
Game launched on May 12, 2022 as a complete mystery-adventure experience with no post-launch content roadmap announced.
news post · May 12, 2022 source content shipped
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4K Video Pack released June 21, 2022 — the second and final DLC, both now fully released with no unreleased items remaining.
dlc listing · Jun 21, 2022 source content shipped
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Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Square Enix
Achievements
28
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game


The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a new unique mystery-adventure game.
Directed by Koichiro Ito, and with Yasuhito Tachibana as the Cinematographer and Scenario Director, beautiful yet thrilling live-action footage intertwines with mysteries to solve, creating highly immersive gameplay.

The player follows a chain of murders which take place over the span of a century. Four murders have been committed in three different time periods - 1922, 1972, and 2022.
Each episode is comprised of three parts, the Incident phase, the Reasoning phase, and the Solution phase, inviting the player to seamlessly enter into this world of mystery.
Explore these time periods, collect multiple clues, and solve a 100-year mystery.


The Shijima family have suffered a chain of inexplicable deaths over the past century.
When Haruka Kagami, a mystery novelist, visits the Shiijmas, she finds herself taking on four different murder cases - occurring at different points in time.

The red camellia and the Fruit of Youth, which invite only death.
And the truth behind it all, waiting to be uncovered...


Haruka Kagami, the main character, is an up-and-coming mystery writer.
Play as Haruka Kagami and pit your wits against the murder cases.

Each murder case comprises of three parts.

The Incident phase: See the entire murder as it unfolds, from start to end. The keys needed to solve the mysteries surrounding the murder can always be found in the video itself.

The Reasoning phase: Put together the [Clues] and [Mysteries] found during the Incident phase and create a hypothesis in your cognitive space. You can create multiple hypotheses, but not all of them will be correct. Some things you uncover may lead you down the wrong path.

The Solution phase: Pin down the killer based on the hypothesis you created in the Reasoning phase. Select the correct hypothesis to determine the killer. When facing a trickier culprit, they may attempt to refute your claims, so strike back with your reasoning!
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