Mobile gaming is in a very interesting place right now with the sheer amount of quality new games and ports arriving on iOS and Android. In an ideal world, a lot of these games would release on the same day on mobile as other platforms. Death Come True ($15.99) from Too Kyo Games featuring Kazutaka Kodaka, the creator of Danganronpa, is the newest game I was looking forward to playing that arrived on mobile in addition to Nintendo Switch on the same day. It had always been announced for multiple platforms but having mobile come out before PC and PS4 is something I didn’t expect, but here we are. After a few months of waiting, Death Come True is finally here and the wait has been worth it for the most part.
Death Come True sees you control Makoto Karaki within a hotel. He wakes up with no memory of how and why he is there. Makoto starts looking around and discovers an unconscious woman in the bathroom and is then interrupted by someone banging on the door. This is where the story begins that sees Makoto experience new deaths, meet new characters, learn more about the hotel, and try and find out why he is in such a predicament.
Without getting into any spoilers, Death Come True‘s narrative plays out really well. It has some interesting twists and, despite the use of some tropes I’ve seen in some popular visual novels and anime, the execution was very good. The only drawback to the way things play out is how annoying it can be to fast forward or rewind...