Xiapu Casebook
An interactive mystery casebook game set in the Xiapu Chronicles universe — explore clues, interview characters, and solve cases at Xiapu High.
Xiapu Casebook
An interactive mystery casebook set in the richly detailed Xiapu High universe — one of the most developed worlds on Neta Studio with 414 works. Explore clues, interview characters, and work through cases in a visual novel format that blends detective fiction with Japanese-style school-life atmosphere.
About This Template
The casebook is the core gameplay experience of the Xiapu Chronicles world. It frames mystery-solving as a visual novel — you navigate between locations at Xiapu High, examine evidence, and question characters who each have their own secrets, motivations, and relationships. The format draws from classic Japanese mystery visual novels (think Ace Attorney meets Persona's school setting) while building an entirely original cast and world.
The casebook format is intentionally structured so that each case reveals not just "whodunnit," but a piece of the larger Xiapu universe — the school's history, the relationships between characters, and the quiet tensions beneath the surface of everyday high school life.
How It Works
Navigate through the casebook interface: select locations to investigate, click on evidence to examine it, and present findings to characters during interrogation sequences. The visual novel format means dialogue is the primary interaction — each conversation can reveal new clues, new suspects, or new layers to the mystery.
Who It's For
- Mystery visual novel fans who love detective stories with character depth
- Xiapu Chronicles fans looking for the core story experience of this 400+ work universe
- Interactive fiction players who prefer deduction-driven gameplay
- Neta Studio creators studying how to build a case-based mystery format
Highlights
Clue → Revelation Loop The satisfaction of connecting scattered evidence into a coherent theory — and then watching a character's expression change when you present the right clue at the right moment.
Living World Integration Characters you meet in the casebook are the same characters whose expression art, backstory, and relationships are documented across hundreds of other Xiapu works — every interaction has depth beyond the case at hand.
Multiple Cases, One Story Individual cases resolve, but the larger mystery of Xiapu High unfolds across the casebook — each solved case opens the door to the next.
Genre Fit
Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · Mystery · Game
