ZakuZaku Games Shows RD no Enkaku Suiri Trial at TGS 2026 with Adjusted Difficulty
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, ZakuZaku Games held a stage event for RD no Enkaku Suiri, its desktop suspense game set for release within 2026 on PS5 and Switch.
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Why it matters
The studio is spending a second Tokyo Game Show on the same 2026 release window, and the fix it is showing off targets the one complaint that could sink a deduction game: players who never find the thread.
Original concept supervisor Takemaru Abiko, producer Manmaru, and director Koichi Tsuruta played the trial version and explained how D-Words work. The TGS build was adjusted after last year's survey, where players called it immersive but too difficult.
The stage event ran on September 18 with Abiko, producer Manmaru, and director Koichi Tsuruta playing through the trial build while MC Miyu Hosoya fielded questions. The game casts the player as someone at a PC, hunting a missing younger sister through a browser called Glome, SNS, and phone calls. Clues are collected as D-Words, and combining them opens new information, but hoarding too many makes deduction harder, so the player has to choose what to investigate. A bad ending is reachable depending on how the investigation goes. The setting is Nagano Prefecture, with real local places, companies, and programs cooperating on production.
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