Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse is a horror adventure, so I of course spent several hours diving for lobster instead

Key art for Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse showing the cast of characters against an ocean background with a mermaid image, cropped for a header.

I can't stop diving in Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, the new standalone entry in the horror-adventure visual novel franchise. There's ostensibly some kind of paranormal mystery playing out about mermaids and so on but I've not even really scratched the surface of that. There is one surface I've delved deep beyond, however: the surface of the water in the local bay.

Explaining exactly what's up in the Paranormasight games – both the original Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo and this new title, which was only revealed two weeks ago as existing at all – gives a bit too much away given the mystery of it all, but mechanically it's a nonlinear visual novel with some puzzle elements. You look around, investigate, talk to people, and generally move the plot forward and sometimes backwards.