EVE Burst Error

The game features a branching narrative where two different protagonists, one male and one female, provide different perspectives on the story. The game introduced a unique twist to the system by allowing the player to switch between both protagonists at any time during the game, instead of finishing one protagonist's scenario before playing the other. EVE Burst Error often requires the player to have both protagonists co-operate with each other at various points during the game.

The game follows two protagonists: Marina and Kojiroh. Marina is an incredibly skilled intelligence agent tasked with protecting a girl named Mayako Mido, who is the daughter of a Japanese diplomat to a fictional Middle Eastern country called Eldia. As the attacks on Mayako ramp up in severity, however, a dangerous government dispute seems to be at the center of these threats. Kojiroh is a private investigator that can't seem to get a case, until a stroke of good luck lands him with a case looking for a school principal's missing painting. Kojiroh soon investigates a string of murders that pulls her into a larger case concerning both the Japanese and Eldian government, and the two cases are coincidentally connected to one another.

In Japan, EVE Burst Error gained massive popularity, enough to earn a console port and overseas release, which were unusual for an eroge. The game reached into the top ten best-selling Saturn titles that week, with 106,694 copies sold. It sold 190,404 copies in Japan in the first half of 1997 and ended the year with 194,750 copies sold, making it one of the best-selling Saturn titles.

In 2000, the game was ranked as the number one Saturn title in a reader survey conducted by the Japanese Sega Saturn Magazine, earning an average score of 9.5014 out of 10. In 2017, Famitsu readers voted EVE Burst Error the 17th best adventure game of all time.