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Promise Mascot Agency
Game
Game2020
Paradise Killer
Developer Kaizen Game Works
Paradise Killer is a 2020 adventure game developed by Kaizen Game Works and published by Fellow Traveller. Players take on the role of protagonist Lady Love Dies, an investigator who is brought out of exile and tasked with uncovering the culprit(s) of a mass murder on Paradise Island. The game's open world and nonlinear design allow players to freely explore the island and interact with other characters over the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
380 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
196 positive · 24 negative
95% range 84–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 196 | 24 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 55 | 3 | 52 |
| Mastodon * | 12 | 1 | 14 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 1 | 18 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
3,283 of 3,515 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
90% recommend · 189 yes, 22 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 211 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (4,215 of 4,550 positive).
Players praise the game's unique vaporwave aesthetic and soundtrack. [1][2][3] Some find the detective gameplay underwhelming, with little deduction required. [4][5][6] Many appreciate the open-ended investigation and freedom to explore. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [16]
I guess this one's just not for me. I've seen such rave reviews for Paradise Killer, but it feels like I've played a very different game. I found it extremely unengaging. Most of the gameplay is wandering around a bland 3D map littered with mostly unimportant items. Sometimes there's a puzzle, or an interesting clue, or an NPC to talk to, but mostly you're picking up random ♥♥♥♥ off the ground and reading vague …
- [17]
I finished the game three days ago and have thought about it constantly. It is hard to believe that at some point I considered stopping playing it. So my advice is this: if you ever feel stuck, keep exploring, keep thinking, don’t look for external help. The game gives you everything you need. This is perfect design, perfect writing. You will be rewarded immensely. This is why we love indies. Simple gameplay, …
- [1]
The complaints about the mystery/detective part being a little underdeveloped are fair, especially the climax, and first-person platforming isn't great. But who cares when the game is this cool! Everything is absolutely drenched in style, the visuals are bonkers, the soundtrack is an amazing city-pop/jazz fusion mix that perfectly fits, and they've created a world and lore that's bizarre, terrifying, and deeply …
- [3]
Paradise Killer is a visual novel/collect-a-thon/mystery game set in a city pop/vaporwave fever dream. You are Lady Love Dies, the investigation freak who is part of an immortal cult that worships eldritch horrors in an attempt to resurrect them and return them to power. Someone has murdered the council (in standard Locked Room Mystery fashion), and it's up to you to figure out exactly how Paradise was killed. …
- [8]
This is my favorite detective game, and I have played nearly all of them. The reason is very simple: there is no hand holding. You can go to trial at any time. You will probably get it wrong unless you follow up on ALL the leads. This means it is 100% up to you to piece together the puzzle. There are no deductions where you have to prove to the game you "get it". No filler. Just you and the case that you build in …
Summarised from 34 of the 359 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Paradise Killer talk about unique and stylish vaporwave aesthetic; those who didn't talk about detective part lacks real deduction. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Paradise Killer received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator platform Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 85% of critics. The game received positive reviews from critics, who praised the soundtrack and the open-ended nature of the investigation mechanics. Alice Bell of Rock Paper Shotgun praised the game's setting and the soundtrack. Joe Skrebels, writing for IGN, enjoyed the vaporwave aesthetic of the game and the endgame trial. GameSpot called it "a detective game like no other, an excellent, bizarre, and utterly singular take on the adventure game". Destructoid said the game was…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 380 · most liked firstNo genAI at Kaizen Game Works either, in Promise Mascot Agency or Paradise Killer. All pure, human nonsense and love.
positive · AI labelView post →📢Killers! 💗One of the artists on Paradise Killer has just released their new game, Sorry We're Closed! ✨To celebrate the launch, we've teamed up with @alamodegames.bsky.social to offer the "Sorry, We're In Paradise" bundle! store.steampowered.com/bundle/47059... #SorryWe'reClosed #ParadiseKiller
neutral · AI labelView post →We made Paradise Killer, and our new game Promise Mascot Agency is coming out soon! 💗💜💙 From m^rder mystery to giant severed pinky finger mascots! Natural progression, right? 💅🛻✨ Wishlisting really helps us out! tinyurl.com/3er3ebap
neutral · AI labelView post →Bluesky's open, quote one art to promote yourself! Lady Love Dies for Kaizen Game Works' Paradise Killer Original Soundtrack CD cover.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you enjoy our current game full of freaks and weirdos (Promise Mascot Agency) perhaps you'd enjoy our previous game full of freaks and weirdos (Paradise Killer) ?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Beach (Paradise Killer, Kaizen Game Works, 2020)
neutral · AI labelView post →If you've not played Paradise Killer yet, then now would be a good time. I'm a HUGE fan of this game.
positive · AI labelView post →While everyone else was focused on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I spent the weekend plowing through Promise Mascot Agency, a game by the creators of Paradise Killer (that launched on the same day as Blue Prince). The best descriptor I can come up with after 24 hours of play is "batshit cozy"
neutral · AI labelView post →You Will Get Paradise Killer. It's still Five Literal Dollars. You will get the 9 hour free roam mystery game starring a wide bisexual woman who kicks Complete Ass and has a lot of personal problems. It owns. Use the footbaths, trust me. It has COLLECTABLES. it has SHINJI. You'll like Shinji.
positive · AI labelView post →✨ Paradise Killer is 75% off in the Steam Spring sale! ✨ Go meet our previous band of freaks and weirdos before meeting the new lot in our upcoming game Promise Mascot Agency! 💗💜💙 store.steampowered.com/app/1160220/...
neutral · AI labelView post →felt like drawing something different, so here's Lady Love Dies from the excellent vaporwave detective game Paradise Killer by @kaizengameworks.com!
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Apartments Pool (Paradise Killer, PC-PS4-PS5-XOne-XSeries-Switch, Kaizen Game Works, 2020)
neutral · AI labelView post →Danchi Area Beach (Paradise Killer, Kaizen Game Works, 2020)
neutral · AI labelView post →Beach of the statues from Garden Area (Paradise Killer, Kaizen Game Works, 2020)
neutral · AI labelView post →32. Paradise Killer Here's another amazing looking game that I absolutely had to pick up, but didn't play yet and it's baffling I haven't found the time, it's so extremely up my alley. Why am I always so busy? Why won't the emails stop!? Why won't the games stop for a year and let me catch up!
positive · AI labelView post →It's a fun little story in a acid-fueled dream but there isn't any gameplay or decisions to be made, just an endless series of fetch quests
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On a whim, I picked up Paradise Killer, the other game behind the promise mascot agency guys... What the fuck is going on at that studio? These games are fever dreams in the best way. If you're looking for a murder mystery puzzle game, it's incredible. So stylish. Still not sure if I was right.
positive · AI labelView post →Just coincidentally been playing Paradise Killer (soo good) and thought this resonated.
positive · AI labelView post →I've been playing Paradise Killer by @kaizengameworks.com lately for an essay and it's a great take on political vaporwave - in the game's context, it's the aesthetics of the oppressors (in this case, immortal doomsday cultists) but at the same time subverted due to the style's ironic tackiness
positive · AI labelView post →Paradise Killer is a great game because it makes you question important societal matters like who holds the power of narrative in the justice system, the ways in which governments create truths to justify their actions, and how much animal features a character needs to be classified as a furry
positive · AI labelView post →I'm happy to report that Paradise Killer is an exceptionally normal game
negative · AI labelView post →A few more games I've played recently. Earlier this year I posted some thoughts on the games I'd been playing. Here are the ones I've completed recently. **Paradise Killer** As a fan of the Danganronpa series, I’d heard great things about Paradise Killer. And the ways in which this game was inspired by the former are obvious, with an eclectic mix of characters embroiled in a complex murder plot. It heavily leans into the vaporwave aesthetic and soundtrack, often crossing that border into the…
positive · AI labelView post →Paradise Killer was an all timer detective game. - Weird vaporwave vibes. - Cool, hot characters. - A compelling mystery. - A memorable world. - A soundtrack that absolutely slaps. That game has it all.
positive · AI labelView post →Paradise Killer is fantastic. It's so wonderful to me to have a mystery game where no matter what you do, even if you fully exonerate the culprit and convict the conspiracies, the player character and the system she is working within can only ever enact it's own broken version of justice
positive · AI labelView post →Bless Paradise Killer for being an investigative detective game where the mystery is actually complex with multiple suspects.
positive · AI labelView post →This game has a lot of pros, but falls short of my recommendation. Pros: The visuals have a very unique aesthetic I enjoy and the charaxter designs are amazing. The mystery itself is a satisfying story and the game does a good job explaining its world to you without feeling either too much like a lore dump.or leaving you in the dust by not explaining anything. I even enjoy the fact that the game doesn't ever tell you you're completely right. Cons: This game, to me, seemed to be about solving…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →KILLERS Paradise Killer is in the GoG Halloween sale! 🦇 It is 70% off! What a scarily good price! Paradise Killer has murder, ghosts, demons AND an existential dread of a terrifying cosmos. What more do you want for Halloween? 🎃 www.gog.com/en/game/para...
neutral · AI labelView post →Paradise Killer is Epic's fifth free daily game for the holidays, and it's a great one to enjoy on the #SteamDeck: steamdeckhq.com/paradise-kil...
neutral · AI labelView post →I am five hours into Paradise Killer and it's clicked SUPER hard. This game is sauced out of its fucking mind. The characters? The mystery? The MUSIC???? This is an all-timer of a game, holy moly.
positive · AI labelView post →Paradise Killer (20). A vaporwave, cyberpunk, occult, first person detective game. Play an exiled cop investigating a murder among immortals in the final hours of a stimulated "utopia". Genuinely unique in terms of vibes, aesthetics and gameplay.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally getting around to playing Paradise Killer and wow it makes such a difference to just navigate a physical space. Like there is such a game feel and *vibe* playing an investigation game where you have to check the actual backalleys and figure out how to break into somewhere.
positive · AI labelView post →My wife's first major credit on a game!! I am so proud of her and so excited for you all to see Promise Mascot Agency! When we played Paradise Killer together and loved it, we couldn't possibly have imagined this day 💪💪🌸🌸🌸⭐
neutral · AI labelView post →My newest review for Noisy Pixel is up! @kaizengameworks.com the Devs of Paradise Killer (one of my favourite games ever), are releasing their new game on Thursday! Promise Mascot Agency is a bizarre game, but it's surprisingly wholesome and is full of great storytelling and relatable characters!
neutral · AI labelView post →hbd to one of my all-timers!!!! hugely cool and extremely stylish, it's always a good time to play Paradise Killer... some old fanart to celebrate, thank you for making this game 💖💖
positive · AI labelView post →Extremely happy to announce that Paradise Killer has made it on to the Woke Content Detector list and is Not Recommended!! Get owned, chuds! We don't want you playing our game! You're always welcome back if you fix what is wrong with yourselves, but for now, GTFO!!
neutral · AI labelView post →took a super pretty nighttime picture in my game Paradise Killer 💕🩵🐬🩷🌌☄️ tbh this might become my new laptop wallpaper
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished Paradise Killer yesterday and it was a real fun game, it is a very novel concept for me to have the trial results be up to you and your evidence.
positive · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency is probably the best game since Paradise Killer
neutral · AI labelView post →replaying Paradise Killer with my wife, god this game whips even more ass than I remember
positive · AI labelView post →Games that feel like vacation. I won't be able to go on vacation for quite some time, so I'm looking for games that feel like vacation. Games that take place in luxurious hotels or just have the right vibes. The first part of the first Dead Island would be a great example, but also niche games like P.A.M.E.L.A. or Paradise Killer.
neutral · AI labelView post →12) A Game Everyone Should Play: It's tied, and from the same developers ( @kaizengameworks.com ), too, but Paradise Killer and Promise Mascot Agency
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished Paradise Killer. Extremely cool game... A mystery with SO many clues coming together at the end felt so satisfying, and at the same time the game resisted the temptation to tie everything up in a perfect neat bow.
positive · AI labelView post →and then when it hits that what Paradise Killer is doing is just foreshadowing what's to come in Promise Mascot Agency, the team's next game, and this post hits even harder!
neutral · AI labelView post →Spending Monday morning playing Paradise Killer on PC. It's a little out of my usual comfort zone but the game exudes style and charm. Have started it before but was distracted by other shiny things. Am determined to suss out the killer this time round.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to Paradise Killer, a game I'm very normal about and one that definitely didn't permanently alter my brain chemistry
positive · AI labelView post →“Paradise Killer, after all, was an adventure game in exactly the same way that Moby-Dick is the story of a workplace injury.” Donlan!
neutral · AI labelView post →"When love dies, all that remains are the facts." Paradise Killer is an adventure game developed by Kaizen Game Works, published by Fellow Traveller. Story Paradise Killer is set in a pocket universe where group of immortal alien beings called the Syndicate attempts to reawaken ancient gods. For this goal they create Paradise Islands, where together with kidnapped humans from Earth living as citizens they experiment to achieve their goal. When island fails, humans are slaughtered and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Promise Mascot Agency is so good that I had to pick up @kaizengameworks.com other game- Paradise Killer. And it was 75% off 😲 what a bargain!
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished the game three days ago and have thought about it constantly. It is hard to believe that at some point I considered stopping playing it. So my advice is this: if you ever feel stuck, keep exploring, keep thinking, don’t look for external help. The game gives you everything you need. This is perfect design, perfect writing. You will be rewarded immensely. This is why we love indies. Simple gameplay, limited resources, and yet a fiercely smart, stylish, entertaining, and, if you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remember how good the Paradise Killer soundtrack was (and also how good the game was): youtu.be/aBZmjaTVm_A?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi everyone, We're Kaizen Game Works, and we're a tiny indie game dev team. We made a game called Paradise Killer, and we're currently working on our next game, Promise Mascot Agency!
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally played Paradise Killer an interesting game but now the soundtrack is baked into my brain, so I keep hearing saxaphone everywhere like I’ve been cursed by Sergio youtu.be/ZNno63ZO2Lw?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Promise Mascot Agency review: Absurdist management sim shows the markers of Paradise Killer are in the business of success.
neutral · AI labelView post →We've had our grubby mitts all over some foam friends in Promise Mascot Agency, the next game from Kaizen Game Works (Paradise Killer). Have some impressions! maxutmost.com/preview-prom...
neutral · AI labelView post →Paradise Killer was one of those games that makes me mentally note "Ah ok, I'll play every game this studio makes"
positive · AI labelView post →I'll admit I've never been a member of either organization, but I have friends who were TST members and last year a good chunk of that congregation split off to join GoS. And they've since helped others so the same. So this is basically how they've described it to me. From Wikipedia, it looks like GoS started in 2018 as a UK split-off for various concerns. Wikipedia focused on specific issues the UK branch had, but I was also told a huge factor was the logistics and goals. TST is a very…
neutral · AI labelView post →OK, Spelling error fixed! Sept 2026's Episode 4 of "Hold On, Let Me Save" is going to cover these two games: Retro: Ys III - Wanderers from Ys for TG16 CD Indie: Paradise Killer by @kaizengameworks.com Catch up with our episodes @ holdonpod.omg.lol Recording on Sept 20th. Don't miss out! 💚🏳️⚧️💜
neutral · AI labelView post →Couple of games up for grabs (Complete). I've got Steam keys for the following: Paradise Killer Blair Witch Please comment on which you'd like and I'll choose at random by next Monday. For fun: what's your favourite pokemon?
neutral · AI labelView post →Was in a thread recently where people talk about heavy story games being popular because of Watcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Disco Esylium and Baldurs Gate 3. I'm going to recommend some fantastic story-rich/story-heavy games that people might have missed during the 2010-2020 era. **Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Hong Kong**: RPG tactics. if you're not familiar with Shadowrun, it's Cyberpunk but with Elves/Trolls, and Dragons as president. Story is dark and fantastic. **West of Loathing and…
neutral · AI labelView post →I've played pretty much every detective game, Paradise Killer is one of the best, because you don't know if you're right until it's over. Open world, can go to trial at any time, amazing!
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