Laplace no Ma

July 4, 1987 Group SNE Humming Bird Soft, Human Entertainment
Role-playing (RPG)
PC-9800 Series Sharp X68000 PC-8800 Series Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD MSX SFAM
About

Laplace´s Demon is a Sweet Home-like RPG and it takes place in a suburb of Boston in 1924. You can pick from one of six or so classes at the start of the game (Detective, Journalist, Psychic, etc) and you can recruit other members, and it plays a lot like a normal RPG. It also seems to be one of the first games to pioneer a limit-break like system, which is now in use in a lot of games.
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Release Date July 4, 1987
Developer Group SNE
Publisher Humming Bird Soft, Human Entertainment
Game Modes Single player
Perspective First person
Themes Horror, Survival