Published May 5, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT

"The Paranormasight series doesn’t aim to do anything new or groundbreaking"

These Square Enix thrillers defy one of modern gaming's biggest curses

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The deluge of video game releases — nearly 20,000 games launched on Steam in 2025 alone — is one of the most challenging obstacles for indies, as the chances of getting discovered grow increasingly smaller. But for Square Enix's Paranormasight series, the opposite is true. Square Enix hasn't released sales numbers for The Seven Mysteries of Honjo , but it was successful enough for the publisher to greenlight The Mermaid's Curse .…