Celebrating All Things Mysterious 2025 is Here!

It’s May already? Part of me is still convinced it’s March, but the calendar has moved on regardless of how I feel.

So that means it’s time to celebrate mystery games all month long in this year’s Celebrating All Things Mysterious!

And by “all things,” I mean it’ll be games 99% of the time.

I’m still drowning in my backlog, but I’ve decided to return to multiple reviews per week this May anyway. Of course, a regular post could always be superseded by exciting enough news (this would be a great time for an Ace Attorney announcement, just saying).

As always, Celebrating All Things Mysterious 2025 will include a contest that you can participate in just by leaving comments on relevant posts!

Contest

Rules:

• No purchase is necessary.
• Only comments made between May 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM EDT and May 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT will be counted.
• Each non-spam, non-anonymous comment on any Celebrating All Things Mysterious blog post earns you 1 point. Replies to other people’s comments, as well as comments on past years’ Celebrating All Things Mysterious posts, are also eligible.
• You must use an email address or website URL (or include another way of contacting you) in your comment so I can contact you if you win.
• The top 3 point earners will win prizes.
• The person with the most points will get their first pick of the prizes. The person with the second most points will pick second, and the person with the third most points will pick third.
• In the event of a tie, tied winners will be contacted at the same time. A tie for third place will allow for more than 3 winners. If tied winners choose the same prize, duplicate prizes will be possible.
• The winner will be contacted by June 2, 2025.

Prizes:

• Domino Lady Volume 3 (ebook)
• Domino Lady Volume 4 (ebook)
• Phoenix Wright Trilogy (gift sent through Steam)
• The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (gift sent through Steam)
• Apollo Justice Trilogy (gift sent through Steam)
• Ace Attorney Investigations Collection (gift sent through Steam)
• AI: The Somnium Files (gift sent through Steam)
• Judgment (gift sent through Steam)
• Lost Judgment (gift sent through Steam)
• $15 sent through PayPal
• You pick a game for me to review!

If you choose the review option, your chosen game must be something I either own or is easily obtainable, which you can discuss with me beforehand. It must be a single game, not a collection (although the chosen game can be part of a collection). I will start playing it in June.

Promotion

In the meantime, consider checking out my Domino Lady stories (unless you’re hoping to win one as a prize). Both of these pulp fiction stories feature the masked vigilante on new adventures. In “The Domino Lady Takes the Case,” she takes on a suspicious murder case when the official investigation appears to be a cover-up. You can find it in Domino Lady Volume 3.

And in Domino Lady Volume 4, you’ll find my story “The Domino Lady Deceived,” in which she pulls off a daring heist only to discover that a mysterious rival got there first!

Conclusion

All right, look forward to a month full of mystery! Are there any mystery games (or other stories) you’re especially interested in these days?