Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved news & patch notes

We're happy to announce the Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved Original Soundtrack is now available here on Steam!

The soundtrack release includes the full 31 track OST, 9 bonus tracks, a liner notes booklet (English only), and 4 pieces of sheet music!

The game and OST will also be available in a discounted bundle for anyone interested - prospective buyers can preview the soundtrack for free on YouTube:

• The game is now high DPI aware which should better scale in fullscreen. (1.57)
• The game can now be played offline. (1.56)
• Typo fixes throughout, reported on Discord. (1.55)
• Some pixels artifacts were fixed on certain characters. (1.55)
• A script error was fixed that resulted in an empty textbox when checking in a particular location. (1.55)

We're pleased to announce that Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved is now available, and will be on 15% launch discount for the next two weeks!

We look forward to seeing everyone's reactions to our story; thank you for your support!

You heard that right! We're so excited to finally be able to announce our release date of Wednesday, November 26th, 2025!

Check out our release date announcement trailer here:

• "Restore Submenu" option has been added to the Options Menu. This keeps the player in a submenu when text finishes writing instead of reverting them back to the root menu (so, if you're looking at various options inside of the "Talk" command, you will still be looking at those options when control returns to the command menu).
• In most cases, the player will no longer be reverted back to the root menu after investigating a spot in the background; they will instead remain in the investigation state until they choose to back out of it with the cancel button.
• Some small updates have been made to the writing for increased clarity.
• Some of the pixel art and animations have been refined.

We are proud to announce that we have released our demo as part of the PixElated Festival, taking place July 29th-August 5th!