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Another Meeting, Deeper Within the Star Chart
Narrative Pacing: "Too Slow" vs. "Too Sudden" Following the demo's release, one of the most common areas of feedback concerned narrative pacing. Some players felt that the opening chapters spent too long on setup before…
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To Everyone Who Lit the Stars Along the Way: Looking Back on The Zodiac Mystery
More than four months have passed since February's Steam Next Fest, the first time The Zodiac Mystery officially met players. Now, as we pause briefly from the intensity of development and look back on that journey, all…
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The Zodiac Mystery Demo: Now Live for Steam Next Fest
Three Full Chapters, Over Twenty Possible Endings Await Developed by the independent Chinese studio LazyBoy, The Zodiac Mystery is officially participating in Steam Next Fest 2026 with a limited-time demo. This is not a…
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The Zodiac Mystery – Creator’s Notes: “The Measure of the Mind”
This article is not about progress percentages, and it is not another rundown of gameplay features. In the final nights before the demo goes live, we wanted to speak about something else entirely: the inner road we have…
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The Zodiac Mystery: On the Eve of Departure
The Steam Next Fest demo for The Zodiac Mystery is about to go live. Presently, we are standing on what we like to call the “eve of departure.” More clearly than ever before, we can feel the long-awaited first encounter…
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How The Zodiac Mystery Honors the Classics and Blazes Its Own Trail
The mystery genre is as timeless as it is loved. The tension between the hidden and the seen, the thrill of piecing a puzzle together, and the satisfaction that comes with an astonishing reveal have captured audiences f…
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Character Spotlight: Jianwei
Love, or Obsession? There are many types of love explored through the cast of The Zodiac Mystery. Some relationships are tender, some conditional, and some quietly suffocating. For Jianwei, a humble carpenter with nothi…
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Character Spotlight: Xiaowen & Suxin
An Unspoken Rivalry Among the countless tangled relationships in The Zodiac Mystery, few are as universal as Xiaowen and Suxin’s. Half-sisters, the two girls were bound by blood, circumstance, and a quiet competition. T…
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Character Spotlight: Tianbao & Jinrong
An Uneasy Union In any great mystery, there are stories that begin long before the first crime. For The Zodiac Mystery, that story belongs to Tianbao and Jinrong, the husband and wife whose fractured bond acts as a stra…
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Character Spotlight: Officer Jiao
A Man Haunted by the Past, Yet Offered a Second Chance In the quiet corners of the police archives, Officer Jiao has spent decades surrounded by dust-covered files and forgotten cold cases. But behind his stoic exterior…
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Character Spotlight: Lianshen
A Brilliant Detective, Walking in Sunlight But Dancing with Shadows As one of the central characters in The Zodiac Mystery, Lianshen embodies our team’s exploration of the tension between human nature’s complexities and…
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The Art of Control and the Gift of Randomness: How World of Tanks and The Zodiac
If we were to assign zodiac signs to game designers, then the designers of World of Tanks would definitely be precise Virgos, while The Zodiac Mystery designers would be free-spirited Sagittarians. One side tries to dec…
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The Algorithm Trust Crisis: The Zodiac Mystery and the Ethics of Randomness
When Honor of Kings players discovered that their five-kill streaks may have been nothing more than “reward matches” carefully manipulated and staged by the algorithm, and when professional players found themselves trap…
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Dice, Puzzles, and Truth: How The Zodiac Mystery Reimagines Multi-Ending Narrati
Imagine a game world where the designer, like a creator, has shaped every detail of light and shadow, given flesh and soul to each character, and buried countless seeds of story—clues, foreshadowing, diverging fates—dee…
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Devlog #3: Designing Experience and Emotion in The Zodiac Mystery
When we talk about a game having a “great experience,” we often mean the fusion of two things—the immersive satisfaction of solving a mystery, when scattered clues fall into place like a puzzle and the story’s logic sna…
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When Narrative Becomes the Soul of a Game
In 2024, Black Myth: Wukong captured global attention with its striking narrative. It reimagines ancient mythology through epic storytelling, allowing players to feel the loneliness behind a hero’s rage. To the Moon unr…
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