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The dog days of summer

"Sanfu" is a suspense puzzle game developed by Shiying Studio and published by Gamera Games. In the fictional mountain city of 2000, an old advertisement related to the late "three-eyed child prodigy" reappears, sparking an investigation into the creation and use of the prodigy.

Work information
Title of the workThe dog days of summer
The publication date listed in the materials2023-07-28
PlatformPC
GenreAVG
Also known asSanfu
ProducerMoonlight cockroach
Game engineRPG Maker
Website address recorded by the sourcehttps://gameragames.com/zh-hans/game/ the dog days of summer/

Questions raised by old advertisements

City TV screens show early child prodigies promoting the child, while the child in the ad has already died. On the surface, supernatural phenomena spark investigations and bring the characters back to the web of interests that once formed around this child.

Dual-protagonist structure

Players act from the perspectives of two main characters, contacting clues across different times and spaces. The environments observed by the two lines differ from the characters, and the information obtained must be connected to understand how events unfold.

Puzzles and narrative

The puzzles revolve around everyday objects, changing scenes, and the investigation process. The puzzle is used to push characters closer to the past, and its meaning depends on the specific context of the story. The dual perspective also provides conditions for the echoes between clues.

Visual style

The art draws inspiration from old posters, vintage advertisements, and everyday urban spaces, bringing familiar visual materials into suspenseful scenes. They also serve as the backdrop for packaging the prodigy and spreading the image within the story.

Release

The game was released on Steam on July 27, 2023. The developer is credited as Shiying Studio, and the publisher is Gamera Games; Yamashiro City and the Three-Eyed Prodigy are fictional settings in this work.

Division of labor among investigators

Xu Qingyuan participated in the case as a Taoist priest, but he had contact with Shen Yanchuan as a former colleague. Shen Yanchuan served as deputy director of a certain bureau and, following instructions from superiors, handed the investigation over to Xu Qingyuan; The newly hired Qiu Wu was responsible for assisting. Xu Qingyuan and Qiu Wu jointly provide the player's controllable perspective.

The interests of prodigies in business

Yang Bohong's Potential Development Center received investment from Techtech, and the special ability performances provided promotion for the prodigy nutrient solution. Wang Shuzheng controls the company, while Su Qinzhen wants to regain control; Tang Yu and Tang Lei come to the mountain city to fight counterfeiting because their mother's treatment was delayed by a supernatural ability scam. These purposes collide during the cultural performance.

The show's scam and distress clues

Su Qinzhen first told Tang Yu about her acting techniques, but later cooperated with the prodigy again for her company's plans. Yang Bohong's side uses a double to create the illusion that the prodigy is dead, causing the plan to fall through. When Tang Yu left with Xiaoyun, she was kidnapped, then used her personal phone number and meal order pattern to pass clues to Su Qinzhen; The investigation continues around the details left behind by the missing person.

Inside the Great Buddha and the final chapter illusion

Qiu Wu finds the imprisoned Xiao Yun inside the Buddha statue and gains her trust with a police badge, but is pushed down by Yang Bohong during the rescue. In the final chapter, Xu Qingyuan escapes and counterattacks by using the illusionary disc. Shen Yanchuan arrives and kills Yang Bohong. Xu Qingyuan only learned of Qiu Wu's death after the incident ended; the earlier companion Qiu Wu was a hallucination.

Two old cases involving video halls and dining parties

The first chapter connects the video hall of 1995 with the dilapidated scene of 2000 through television. The lost and found box reveals the scene of ticket seller Xiao Wu being killed by Yang Bohong and He Hui handling the scene; Inside the wall, the bodies of Xiao Wu and He Hui were soon discovered. Based on the cause of He Hui's suffocation death and the soil and plant debris at the scene, Ye Jingshan determined this was the second scene. Chapter Two follows the dinner party at the Lotus Hotel, and finally finds Zhang Chengfeng's body inside the platform bell. The autopsy links the time of his death to He Hui.

Film, codes, and pupil changes

Xu Qingyuan develops and arranges the film reels, allowing Qiu Wu to enter different group dinners, overhearing conversations at the table, stairwell, and bathroom. The two also used Qiu Wu's Black Cat phone pendant as a code to identify that the caller on the train earlier was not Xu Qingyuan. Mingguang Ophthalmology's examinations linked varying degrees of pupil changes to the number of times the disc was viewed. Shen Yanchuan pointed out that cicada flower powder on the disc might be a hallucinogenic cause.

Original soundtrack: Mirror Flowers, Water Moon

The official original soundtrack of Sanfu Flower Water Moon was composed by anhydrous copper acetate under the name Cu, containing a total of eighteen tracks. The track list unfolds from Buddha in the wall, the wondrous lotus, and the birth and ceasing of fate, and also includes Lao Xu's cheerful tunes, Xiao Qiu's leisure time, stories of fast food restaurants, and moonlight in the stairwell, ending with an aerial lullaby. The Steam production list lists Vestieria separately.

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Data compiled on: 2026-10-07.

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