The Zodiac Trial

The Zodiac Trial

Steam Deck · unrated

Themisian · Visual Novel · Jan 21, 2021

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

At $14.99. We haven't seen it on sale.

95%
Very Positive
151 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 106 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Difficulty: 6 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Interface: 4 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 3 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 151 player reviews · updated 5 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 139 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
29% of themes are praise43% are divided28% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Some characters look pretty good like Dragon, Ox and Dog but a good amount of them are a little questionable in appearance.
106 of 139 sampled reviews raised it
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
The writing is the highlight anyways, a lot of mileage is wrung out of the different scenarios, the overall plot is compelling and has a fair few twists plus some attempts at mystery solving, albeit I'm not sure it's fully successful, either making it too easy to trial-and-error or making the mystery too complex (cramming two completely separate mysteries into one solving scenario towards the end made it hard to keep track of both) but other than the usual choice making and the very occasional puzzle the gameplay is fairly limited, but it suffices.
6 of 139 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love2 themes
Story and characters106 reviews
Difficulty6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Audio16 reviews
94%
Graphics14 reviews
100%
Gameplay10 reviews
90%
Players complain% still recommend
Interface4 reviews
100%
Bugs3 reviews
100%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Full price

Currently $14.99. We haven't seen it on sale yet.

3 points recordedtoday · $14.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
95%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
0
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.