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Funeral for the Sun
Search the ashes of an abandoned Latin American town and uncover 400 years of secrets. An epic non-linear mystery where you travel back in time and untangle the history of a community cursed by generations of supernatural forces.
View on Steam →- Potential score
- 96
- Positive
- 100% Very Positive
- Total reviews
- 162
- New reviews/day (7d)
- 40
- Players online
- 248
- Price
- $17.99
- Release date
- Nov 9, 2026
- Developer
- Nicolás G. Cid Delgado
- Publisher
- Nicolás G. Cid Delgado
- Est. sales
- 4,860～9,720 rough estimate from review count
Daily New Reviews
Is interest rising or fading?
◆ Deep Dive
Based on 41 sampled player reviews · 2026-11-12
A hand-drawn mystery detective game built around family-tree deduction and spanning centuries of a small Latin American town's history; the store shows 111 reviews and a 100% positive rating.
Core loop
Players touch flowers in an abandoned town to travel back in time, watch memory fragments to collect names, portraits, and relationship clues, then place portraits in a notebook and use different-colored pens to draw kinship, marriage, and murder connections; every three correct groupings are confirmed and locked in, unlocking the next story segment. The whole process centers on deducing "who is who and who is related to whom," with environmental exploration playing a supporting role.
How it feels to play
Highly immersive and easy to play in one sitting: one player said they nearly finished it in a single run, while another described suddenly realizing hours had passed. The pacing is seen as just right, with some feeling it offers 7 to 10 hours of content, and one wrote midway through that it would stay in their game of the year list.
Who it's for
Players who enjoy pure-deduction, low-guidance detective games such as Return of the Obra Dinn, The Case of the Golden Idol, and Roottrees are Dead; those who prefer hand-drawn art, family sagas, and magical-realist storytelling; and players willing to take their own notes and patiently trace back clues.
What players love
The deduction core is a freely connected family relationship web rather than fill-in-the-blank puzzles, letting players organize the investigation in their own order
🔸 EXPECTATIONS: a 'family tree' type of detective game. 🔸 REALITY: a narrative deduction game with a "characters' connections map" mechanic. 🔷 Funeral for the Sun is primarily a narrative game, divided into chapters (alt…
Recommended · 18 h played · 2026-11-09Merging portraits of the same person at different ages across time creates strong "it was you all along" realization moments
Funeral for the Sun is magical. No other deduction game is doing narrative like this - sweeping, multigenerational, with deep thematic resonance across literal centuries, yet totally grounded in individual characters' st…
Recommended · 1 h played · 2026-11-09The hand-drawn art and soundtrack are seen as standout selling points, with the colors and scenes repeatedly praised
I'd been waiting anxiously for this game ever since I found out about it three months ago, then I decided to skip the demo and wait for release day. I expected it to be great, but boy this game far exceeded my high expec…
Recommended · 6 h played · 2026-11-09The narrative weaves a family saga together with themes of colonialism, capital, and identity, and the ending converges in a satisfying way
Brilliant deduction game built on multigenerational nested narratives. Like "The Roottrees are Dead" meets "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Recommended · 8 h played · 2026-11-09The difficulty is considered challenging but manageable, with optional room for deeper digging beyond the main line
An absolutely fantastic puzzle investigation game! The writing is great, and the complex story unfolds in layers that are very satisfying to uncover. Players who are paying attention to the details are rewarded by being …
Recommended · 10 h played · 2026-11-11
What players complain about
No negative reviews appeared in this sample, and the review curve shows zero negative reviews on all three days, so no pain points are listed and no problems are forced out of positive reviews. The store shows 111 reviews in total with a 100% positive rating.
Why it might be taking off
These are hypotheses drawn from reviews and data, not confirmed facts.
- Medium confidenceBeing repeatedly compared side by side with several well-known deduction games may make it easier for genre fans to understand and try this work
- Medium confidenceThe author attribute of being "mainly developed by one person" may boost player goodwill and willingness to support it
- Medium confidenceThe curve shows 22 positive and 0 negative reviews on 2026-11-09, 46 positive and 0 negative on 2026-11-10, and 43 positive and 0 negative on 2026-11-11; this run of zero negative reviews may reflect high acceptance among early players
- Low confidenceThe $17.99 price may fall within an acceptable range for the target players of an indie deduction game
- Low confidenceThe tag set of detective, puzzle, hand-drawn, history, and mystery may help genre players quickly judge on the store page that this is the game they want
The sample is not exhaustive: toprated and mostrecent are capped at 2 pages each per language. This covers only part of the English and Simplified Chinese reviews, while the store shows 111 reviews for the game, so the conclusions represent only this batch of samples.