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Game description

Shangchuan, 1939, Japanese-occupied. By day a bowing traitor, by night a ghost, in Demon's Lair, No. 86. All wear masks: pretend, kill, survive. When sacrificing a friend is the only way, when betrayed, when only isolated cities remain - fight to the end, live a coward, or take an unimagined path?

Basic info

DeveloperKARMAGAME HK LIMITED
PublisherEpicDream Games
PlatformsWindows · macOS
Steam DeckPlayable
Release dateAug 5, 2026
Price
  • Steam store −25% $15.58 $11.68 · Steam ↗
  • Lowest-price store $11.68 · Steam
  • Historical low $11.68 · 3-month low $11.68Other stores ↗

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Minimum specs

OSWindows 10
ProcessorIntel Core i3
Memory8 GB
GraphicsIndependent graphics card
Storage50 GB
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Review Analysis Score

Based on 446 reviews from the past 1 year

74.3/ 100
Bottom 40%

Steam rating: Very Positive (83%)

Review analysis summary (Reviewed Oct 19, 2026)

Live action wartime espionage meets romance in PatriotMemoirs, a split verdict that scores 74.3 from 446 analyzed reviews.

👍 Strengths

122 reviews praise the story, describing an emotional, layered narrative with meaningful choices and a surprising ending. 79 admire the characters and the cast, saying the acting feels realistic and the characters show depth across different moral stances. 50 like the visuals, pointing to fine cinematography, costumes and props that convey the period. Visuals & Sound ranks 541st of 1249, and Content Volume ranks 239th of 1351. Gameplay ranks 537th of 1396.

👎 Where it falls short

Story & World appears in 87% of analyzed reviews and ranks 797th of 1096. 121 reviews criticize the story, saying a shallow romance crowds out the promised spy plot and that the plot logic often breaks down. 16 mention onboarding problems, from unclear exploration markers to QTE minigames with no prompts and affinity changes that are hard to follow. 15 fault how some characters are written, with one romance option seen as petulant and another left without development. A few also report repeated scenes caused by bugs.

Representative reviews Original reviews ↗

“exceptional acting performance with realistic emotional delivery” · 79 reviews
“character designs and cinematography are excellent” · 50 reviews
“many ending branches, played 12 hours straight” · 20 reviews

How it holds up

−50+5

Controls, difficulty, progression and depth
Mentioned in 30% of reviews · Top 40% of the games we've analyzed

Strategy +2.89 · Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices
Positive “many synergies and event variations from location choices” · 13 reviews

Progression 3% · Difficulty 7% · Onboarding 8% · Freedom 3% · Controls & feel 6%

Plot, characters and the world
Mentioned in 87% of reviews · Bottom 30% of the games we've analyzed

Characters +2.32 · How memorable the characters and their relationships are
Positive “exceptional acting performance with realistic emotional delivery” · 79 reviews
Negative “one romance character is petulant, another disappears mid-story” · 15 reviews

Story 69% · World 28%

How much there is to do, variety and replay value
Mentioned in 28% of reviews · Top 20% of the games we've analyzed

Replayability +3.21 · Reasons to play again — runs, randomness, New Game+
Positive “many ending branches, played 12 hours straight” · 20 reviews
Negative “multiple playthroughs require excessive repetition and fast-forwarding” · 1 review

Volume 16% · Variety 11%

Graphics, art style, music and sound
Mentioned in 28% of reviews · Top 50% of the games we've analyzed

Visuals +3.50 · Graphics, art style, and animation
Positive “character designs and cinematography are excellent” · 50 reviews
Negative “editing is chaotic, visuals poor, atmosphere strange” · 2 reviews

Audio 10%

Playing with others, the community and servers

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +4.00 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

Community 0% · Servers & Connection 0%

Pricing, cheaters, balance and matchmaking
Mentioned in 6% of reviews · Top 40% of the games we've analyzed

Pricing -0.02 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge
Negative “overpriced for a shallow dating game” · 2 reviews
Positive “excellent value for price, enables social discussion with friends” · 3 reviews

Anti-cheat 0% · Balance 0% · Matchmaking 0%

Bugs, performance and developer support
Mentioned in 4% of reviews · Top 40% of the games we've analyzed

Developer support -0.01 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
Negative “marketing misrepresented game focus on killing Japanese enemies” · 1 review
Positive “Korean translation quality greatly improved, developer finally improved” · 1 review

Stability 1% · Performance 0%

Grey means too few reviews mention it to trust. — means almost no reviews mention it.

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