Corpse Party

Corpse Party, released in Japan as Corpse Party: Blood Covered, is a horror adventure game developed by Team GrisGris and published by Xseed Games for Microsoft Windows. Originally developed as Corpse Party: NewChapter for Japanese mobile phones, it is a remake of the 1996 NEC PC-9801 video game Corpse-Party, and the second game in the Corpse Party series. Containing similar gameplay to its predecessor, players control a group of high school students who are transported to a haunted elementary school after performing a supposed friendship ritual, looking for a way to escape. 

Corpse Party is the first game in the series’ rebooted continuity, introducing new characters and elements to those present in the original game, while generally following the same plot. An enhanced port of the game for the PlayStation Portable was released in 2010 as Corpse Party: Blood Covered …Repeated Fear in Japan. This remaster was later ported to iOS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and was also re-released for Microsoft Windows.

Set in 2008 Fujisawa, Japan, Corpse Party takes place at Kisaragi Academy, a high school built on the remains of Heavenly Host Elementary School, which was closed when a series of murders and disappearances occurred years prior. The game primarily centers around a group of nine, seven of which are students of Kisaragi Academy. These include the original five characters from Corpse-Party.

Satoshi and Yuka Mochida, Naomi Nakashima, Ayumi Shinozaki, and Yoshiki Kishinuma, as well as four additional characters, all of whom die at some point in the game: Seiko Shinohara, Mayu Suzumoto, Sakutaro Morishige, and their teacher, Yui Shishido. Corpse Party is played in a third-person view from a top-down perspective. Players are tasked with exploring the haunted school grounds for a means of escape.

To fulfill this task, characters must interact with the environment and surroundings, such as picking up objects, talking to other characters, and inspecting documents while avoiding enemies. Characters possess hit points (HP), which measure how much damage they can take from enemies and obstacles before dying. Unlike the original 1996 Corpse-Party, the remake omits role-playing game elements like magic and a battle system, with characters taking damage exclusively through overhead navigation.