Aksys Games has confirmed a release date for its upcoming crime-solving adventure Path of Mystery: A Brush With Death on Nintendo Switch.
Decades have passed since a famous landscape artist was brutally murdered while painting late at night. Now, your university’s Mystery Research Club starts to revisit this unsolved case.
You play as first-year college student Doppo Akazawa, who joins the Mystery Research Club. Their first research assignment leads them to Narumizawa where they must investigate a dormant 30-year-old murder case. The case was closed, although irregularities were found, and the primary suspect died in an apparent suicide.
Doppo has the power to travel back in time, using their secret ability to peer into the past to reveal new clues that will let you view key items and events in a new light. This will help you steer conversations and interviews with witnesses and potential suspects, uncovering long-buried clues that will lead you to discovering the identity of the true killer.
“Structured like a TV drama, each chapter in Path of Mystery: A Brush with Death is presented in the form of an episode,” the publisher explains in a press release. “The tension builds as you begin to draw key information from everyone connected to the murder 30 years ago. The game world is brought to life by a talented cast of voice actors, great character designs and beautiful backgrounds, with the retrocognition portions taking players back to the past with a retro art style.”
Path of Mystery: A Brush With Death will be released at retail and digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch worldwide on 26 February 2026.
