The Red Pearls Of Borneo Adds Japanese Subtitles In November 12 Update
Bushmonkey Games added Japanese subtitles to The Red Pearls Of Borneo on November 12.
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Why it matters
A free detective game with 95% positive reviews from 4,910 Steam user reviews now reaches Japanese players, the audience most directly addressed by its 1941 Borneo setting and the Japanese military landing that the case turns on.
Key Facts
- Bushmonkey Games added Japanese subtitles to The Red Pearls Of Borneo on November 12.
- The Red Pearls Of Borneo is free on PC via Steam and in browser via itch.io.
- The game has 95% positive reviews out of 4,910 Steam user reviews.
- The Red Pearls Of Borneo released on Steam in March 2026.
- The story follows the psychic Delphine investigating the 1941 deaths of Jeremiah Goodwill and his daughter Rune in North Borneo.
The detective mystery is free on PC via Steam and in browser via itch.io, and the Steam version supports Japanese, selected with the Japanese flag at the start. The game casts Delphine, a psychic, investigating two deaths at a North Borneo tobacco plantation in 1941.
The Japanese support arrives through the Steam build, where players pick the Japanese flag at the start of the game. The Red Pearls Of Borneo released on Steam in March 2026 and has drawn 95% positive reviews from 4,910 Steam user reviews, enough for an Overwhelmingly Positive rating.
The case itself is set in April 1948, when Delphine in London receives a letter from J. Goodwill Jr. about his father and younger sister Rune, who died in 1941 at the Goodwill Tobacco Plantation in North Borneo. Delphine can sense past scenes at a place and time she can identify, and players build a timeline from those identifications. Hard Mode turns off overall timeline tracking and hints.
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