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Twilight Syndrome (トワイライトシンドローム, Towairaito Shindorōmu) is a series of Japan-exclusive video games developed by Human Entertainment. Goichi Suda designed the first three games in this series.

Main series

Twilight Syndrome: Search
Developer(s)Human Entertainment
Publisher(s)Human Entertainment
Platform(s)PlayStation
ReleaseMarch 1, 1996
Genre(s)Adventure, Horror

Twilight Syndrome: Search (トワイライトシンドローム 探索編, Towairaito Shindorōmu Tansaku-hen) was released for the PlayStation on March 1, 1996. It is the first half of the story that concludes in Investigation.

Twilight Syndrome: Investigation

Twilight Syndrome: Investigation
Developer(s)Human Entertainment
Publisher(s)Human Entertainment
Platform(s)PlayStation
ReleaseJuly 19, 1996
Genre(s)Adventure, Horror

Twilight Syndrome: Investigation (トワイライトシンドローム 究明編, Towairaito Shindorōmu Kyūmei-hen) was released for PlayStation on July 19, 1996. It is the second part of the story presented in Search.

Moonlight Syndrome

Moonlight Syndrome
Developer(s)Human Entertainment
Publisher(s)Human Entertainment
Composer(s)Kouji Niikura
Masafumi Takada
Platform(s)PlayStation
ReleaseOctober 9, 1997
Genre(s)Adventure, Horror

Moonlight Syndrome (ムーンライトシンドローム, Mūnraito Shindorōmu) was released on October 9, 1997, for PlayStation. Non-canonical side story to Twilight Syndrome: Search and Twilight Syndrome: Investigation. Events from The Silver Case (also developed by Goichi Suda) takes place after this game.

Twilight Syndrome: Reunion

Twilight Syndrome: Reunion
Developer(s)Vaill
Publisher(s)Spike
Platform(s)PlayStation
ReleaseJuly 27, 2000
Genre(s)Adventure, Horror

Twilight Syndrome: Saikai (トワイライトシンドローム 再会, Towairaito Shindorōmu Saikai) was released in Japan on July 27, 2000 for PlayStation. It is a true sequel to the story present in Twilight Syndrome: Search and Twilight Syndrome: Investigation. Reunion contains a new cast of characters and a new story.

Twilight Syndrome: The Forbidden Urban Legend

Twilight Syndrome:
The Forbidden Urban Legend
Developer(s)Spike
Publisher(s)Spike
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
ReleaseJuly 26, 2008
Genre(s)Adventure, Horror

Twilight Syndrome: Kinjirareta Toshi Densetsu (トワイライトシンドローム 禁じられた都市伝説, Towairaito Shindorōmu Kinjirareta Toshi Densetsu) was released in Japan on July 26, 2008 for Nintendo DS.

In other games

In the 2012 video game, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, developed by Spike Chunsoft, a tribute to the Twilight Syndrome series, titled Twilight Syndrome: Murder Mystery, is found during the game's second chapter. The game-within-a-game uses a visual style resembling the series to portray an incident related to the chapter's case.