Famicom Detective Club announced for Switch

Nintendo has just announced Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, the Switch. The game will be released on August 29, 2024.

Last week, the company released a short video about something called “Emio.” Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about what Nintendo was trying to announce. Emio: The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club has now been revealed, and it’s the first new Famicom Detective Club story in 35 years.

Here are the details directly from Nintendo:

In Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, a college student is found gruesomely dead, his head covered with a paper bag with an eerie smiling face painted on it. This disturbing visage bears a striking resemblance to a recurring clue in a series of unsolved murders from 18 years ago, as well as to Emio (the Smiling Man), a killer from urban legend who supposedly gives his victims “a smile that lasts forever.”

Play the role of an assistant private investigator at the Utsugi Detective Agency, where you’re tasked with helping the police solve this crime, examining the clues and witness statements you collect for possible connections to the gruesome events of the past.

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is the first new Famicom Detective Club story in 35 years. This title follows the previously released first and second installments in the series, most recently re-released for the Nintendo Switch system: Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir and Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind.

Has a serial killer returned or is this the work of a copycat? Are these crimes inspired by the Smiling Man story or are they the origin of it? You will discover these and other answers as you investigate in Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club.

Yoshio Sakamoto, known for Metroid and producer of the Famicom Detective series, recently talked about the project in a new video. We have it below.

A conversation with producer Yoshio Sakamoto