Nintendo announced on Wednesday that it will release a new game in the Famicom Detective Club (Famicom Tantei Club) series titled Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club for Nintendo Switch on August 29.
This is the first new game in the series in 35 years since the originals games’ releases on Famicom. In Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, a student has been found dead in a chilling fashion, his head covered with a paper bag with an eerie smiling face drawn on it.
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir (Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kōkeisha) and Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo) launched separately.
Nintendo released remakes of both of the original Famicom Detective Club games for Switch in May 2021.