Awarded gamesGames of the Year
Award for excellenceUrban Myth Dissolution Center
General Description
| Title | Urban Myth Dissolution Center |
|---|---|
| Release | 2025/2/13 |
| Price | 3,740yen(tax included) 1,980yen(tax included)(download ver) |
| Platform | PlayStation®5 / Nintendo Switch / Steam |
| Platform | SHUEISHA GAMES Inc. |
| Publisher | SHUEISHA GAMES Inc. |
| Developer | Hakababunko |
| URL | https://umdc.shueisha-games.com/ |
| Copyright | ©Hakababunko / SHUEISHA, SHUEISHA GAMES |
Award for excellence Reason
This is a mystery adventure game. The Urban Myth Dissolution Center investigates curses, creatures and anomalies on the Internet, searches for a truth and finds a criminal, and dismantles urban legends.
Attractive characters appear, including the center director, one of top psychics in Japan.
Players enjoy the joys of a serial drama type of puzzle solving in a unique world expressed in the pixel art style and comical animations.
In addition, many users of all ages support the vivid SNS descriptions like the real world. That is why the game won the award.
Work Introduction
“Welcome to the Urban Myth Dissolution Center”
The “Urban Myth Dissolution Center“ specializes in investigating and dissolving mysteries, cursed objects, and otherworldly phenomena.
The protagonist, Azami Fukurai, works alongside Ayumu Meguriya, the center's director and one of the nation's top psychics. Together, they tackle cases involving urban myths, but the truth behind these myths is never straightforward...
This is a serial drama type adventure game: using suspicious urban myths, which appear in SNSs, as a theme and drawn in the psychedelic pixel art style.
Why not unveil the truth hidden in grotesque phenomena and see shocking endings?
Comment of the game producer
Thank you so much for selecting us for the honorable Japan Game Awards and the Japan Game Awards for Excellence.
“The Urban Myth Dissolution Center” was created by a small team including a member with little practical experience. Based on the recent situations of “game fatigue and disengagement from gaming,“ we created this game, hoping anyone would enjoy the sense of achievement and satisfaction “in clearing a game.”
We are very grateful to players who supported us and all those who involved in the production and the sales of the game.
Encouraged by this award, we will strive to do our best to create games players can enjoy until the end.
Hakababunko
All of the development team directly felt proud of winning such a wonderful award this time.
Thank you very much.
We devoted ourselves to this project, which started at almost the same time as the start of Shueisha Games Inc. To make the best of the unique qualities of “Hakababunko,”we built the environment from scratch. As a result, all members could unitedly grow.
We would like to deliver game titles with strong authorship and artistic values in the future.
Please keep on cheering us.
Finally but not least, we really appreciate all who are involved in this game and those who picked it up.
Makoto Hayashi, the “Urban Myth Dissolution Center” Producer
Shueisha Games Inc.