A surreal, short-form puzzle adventure / horror game built for the GameBoy, POCKET MYSTERY EP DX updates the original POCKET MYSTERY EP with full color graphics, re-designed puzzles, updated music and sound effects, and additional content.
FEATURES
A STRANGE MURDER:聽As Detective Walker Rylance, explore the mysterious Minerva鈥檚 Nocturne hotel, investigating the locked-room murder of four colleagues. Nothing is quite as it seems, however.
A COLORFUL CAST OF CHARACTERS:聽Interview the colorful staff of the hotel - from the sophisticated concierge to the hyper-anxious cleaning staff and beyond. Relive the final moments of the victims and learn about who they are and their relations to each other.
DESIGNED FOR THE GAMEBOY:聽Built in GameBoy Studio, POCKET MYSTERY EP DX was originally built for, and is playable on, Game Boy Color. We鈥檙e not just riffing on the aesthetics of GameBoy games, this is built for the actual hardware.
ESCAPE A LIMINAL SPACE:聽Solve puzzles in a mysterious place seemingly inside the hotel, pushing blocks, activating switches, and more to escape a mysterious killer.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Development of POCKET MYSTERY EP began in summer 2022 in Game Boy Studio and released about a year and a half later on Itch in December 2023. Its development was honestly frustrating and didn鈥檛 quite go as planned. Rather than giving up, the game was re-configured to try and acknowledge the difficult development.聽
In August 2024, with a variety of improvements and updates to Game Boy Studio, the idea to update the game, replete with GameBoy Color support, was sparked. This deluxe, or DX, re-release doesn鈥檛 aim to fully deliver on the game鈥檚 original vision, but it does seek to fix bugs, update the music and sounds, and add some additional content hinting at what might鈥檝e been.
This isn鈥檛 the end for POCKET MYSTERY EP either. A full remake, titled Nocturne: POCKET MYSTERY Remixed, is in development targeting a 2026 release.
