🎉 English Support at Launch + New Release Date: May 22, 5pm CST

Hello detectives,

We have two pieces of news — and one of them is specifically for you.

🌐 English Support, At Launch

Originally, we planned to launch in Simplified Chinese only and add English as a post-launch update. We even said so in a few of our comment replies.

Then we read through our wishlist comments. We saw how many of you had taken the time to ask, often very politely, whether you'd be able to play this. Some of you said you'd wait however long it took.

We couldn't sit on that. So for the past five days we've been pulling late nights — and now we can say it:

The Detective's Obsession – The Missing Witness will launch on May 22, 2026 with full English support from day one.

Here's what's translated:

• ✅ Complete UI and system text

• ✅ All NPC dialogue and phone messages

• ✅ All 130+ clue descriptions

• ✅ All 70+ deductions and logic prompts

• ✅ Full case progression and all on-screen narrative text

A note about cutscenes: story videos retain their original Chinese audio in this first English release — we genuinely ran out of time for full video subtitling. But every cutscene is followed by an English"Case Memo"that summarizes the events, so you won't miss any of the plot. Full video subtitles are on our roadmap for a future update.

📅 New Release Date: Friday, May 22

We've also shifted the launch by 5 days:

Friday, May 22, 2026 — 17:00 Beijing Time (UTC+8)

Which translates to:

• 🌍 09:00 UTC

• 🇺🇸 02:00 PT / 05:00 ET (Friday morning, US)

• 🇬🇧 10:00 BST (Friday morning, UK)

• 🇪🇺 11:00 CEST (Friday late morning, Central Europe)

The original date (Sunday, May 17) just wasn't a great fit for Steam's weekend visibility cycle. A Friday-evening launch gives players an entire weekend to dig into the case — and that's exactly what this game is designed for: focused, uninterrupted hours with the evidence board.

🔧 What Else the Last 5 Days Got Us

Alongside the English build, the extra time has gone into:

• A final full-playthrough pass to make sure all 130+ clues and 70+ deductions resolve cleanly

• Day-one patch cleanup for any lingering edge-case bugs

• Coordinating with curators, streamers, and press partners for review access

🙏 Thank You

We're a tiny team. There's no big marketing budget behind this. What got the English build across the finish line for day one was, very literally, your comments. Every "please add English" we read made the case for staying up later.

Thank you, and see you on May 22.

— 迷雾影游