Deka Police Returns To Tokyo Game Show With 2027 Target
Nine months after the Direct announcement, Level-5 is showing Deka Police as a playable booth demo with a 2027 target, which puts the detective RPG on the event floor rather than in a trailer.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Level-5 brought Deka Police to Tokyo Game Show 2026, running September 17 to 21, with a two-part demo built around a Case Quest and a City Patrol mode. The demo's Three Mafia Murder Case has rookie detective Harvard Marks, voiced by Soma Saito, reopening a mafia serial murder case inside a future city where a virtual reconstruction system has glitched and puppetized the residents. First announced at Nintendo Direct 2023.2.9 with a 2023 release, the game is now targeting 2027 for Switch and PS4.
The Tokyo Game Show 2026 demo splits into two modes, Case Quests and City Patrol, and the Case Quest on the floor is the Three Mafia Murder Case. Marks leads a rookie team in a special investigation unit, and each member carries a different anti-crime skill: negotiation, computers, criminal psychology. Investigations run through the DECA Scanner, which surfaces evidence and informants, then through conversation checks where the right team member draws out what a witness will not volunteer. The setting's DECASIM system reproduces a whole city, including past crimes, and its malfunction leaves the dead and the living alike puppetized. From there the case board opens and the deduction phase begins.
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