Echo Night

Echo Night is played from a first-person perspective. The player can navigate different environments and interact with various items to progress the story. The player is often transported into the past via NPCs or certain objects to uncover more information pertaining to the story and characters. Aboard the Orpheus, the player must talk with souls of deceased passengers and solve puzzles to fulfill their final wishes and help them move on.

As the player fulfills these tasks, the souls will vanish and leave behind an "astral piece", which can be used to get different game endings. Occasionally the player will encounter hostile ghosts who will attack and can deplete the player's health. There are no combat or defensive items in Echo Night, so when confronted with an aggressive ghost, the player must turn on the lights in the room to ward off the ghosts. These light switches often require additional puzzle solving, and sometimes can only be accessed after helping souls in the area move on.

A cutscene in 1913 depicts the passenger liner Orpheus navigating stormy waters. On-screen text explains the ship mysteriously vanished without a trace, and search teams were unable to find evidence of its disappearance.

The game begins in 1937 at the apartment of Richard Osmond as he examines a strange key mailed to him from his estranged father, Henry Osmond. Immediately afterwards he receives a phone call from the police stating that Henry has been missing for some time and now his house has mysteriously burned down. The police allow Richard to investigate the remnants of his father's home, whereupon Richard is able to use the mysterious key to find a secret passageway leading to his father's diary. When Richard touches the diary, he is transported to a scene on a moving train with a young man.

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu gave the game a 31 out of 40 score.