Award-Winning Paranormal Mystery Urban Myth: Dissolution Center Arrives on Mobile

Take Azami Fukurai's memory-seeing glasses on the morning commute. Shueisha Games released Urban Myth: Dissolution Center on iOS and Android on March 19, 2026, bringing the Japan Game Award 2025 "Excellence" winner to mobile for the first time at a premium $17.99 price point with no in-app purchases attached.

The game, developed by Hakaba Bunko, had already crossed 100,000 units sold since its original February 13, 2025 launch on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. The mobile port doesn't cut corners: graphics, scenarios, and gameplay are identical to the console and PC versions, with two additions built specifically for touchscreens: full touch optimization and customizable frame designs that let players choose one of four decorative borders for the non-playable area of the screen.

If you haven't encountered the game before, here's the pitch. You control Azami Fukurai, a heroine who helps run the Dissolution Center, a kind of paranormal detective agency tasked with handling cursed relics, dimensional anomalies, and monstrous oddities. Azami's defining ability is seeing memories of places through her glasses, which becomes central to how you work cases. Each episode sends you collecting circumstantial evidence and social network posts to unravel the truth behind an urban myth and the hidden past of whoever brought it to your door. The visual style is psychedelic pixel art, which sounds like a gimmick until you see it in motion. Azami works alongside the unenthusiastic colleague Jasmine and Ayumu Meguriya, a Level S psychic who serves as Center Director.

"Urban Myth Dissolution Center was designed from the ground up to be an experience anyone can enjoy, regardless of their gaming background," said John Davis, PR Manager at Shueisha Games. "Bringing it to mobile means players can investigate cursed mysteries wherever they are, during a commute, a lunch break, or at home before bed."

The mobile release supports 13 languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and Hindi. A manga adaptation by Emi Ishikawa also runs in Shueisha's Ribon magazine, with the second compiled volume already shipped.

At $17.99, this sits above the typical mobile price floor, but the console pedigree and award history make it one of the more substantive premium releases the App Store and Google Play have seen this month.