50 Fun Facts About Mystic Messenger

Mystic Messenger, the 2016 phone game played through a fake messaging app, was made in which country?

South Korea is its home, and the original title there translates as Mysterious Messenger.

Which studio, founded in 2012 to make games aimed at women, developed the chat-app hit Mystic Messenger?

Cheritz was founded by Sujin Ri, who is also credited with designing and directing the game.

Mystic Messenger is classed under which Japanese-named genre of dating games written for a female audience?

Otome is the label the game carries, and its makers describe it as a storytelling messenger game.

Which item is Mystic Messenger's premium currency, spent to reopen missed chats and unlock story modes?

Hourglasses can be bought or earned in play, and reading the story of each guest who attends the party hands over one more.

In Mystic Messenger, what flies out of the chat window when a reply pleases one of the RFA members?

A coloured heart appears, and its shade shows which member approved, steering the player toward that person's route over the first four days.

Mystic Messenger's chat rooms open and expire according to what?

Real time governs every chat, text and call: a prologue day, three shared days, six days on one route and a last day for the party.

Which breed is Elizabeth the 3rd, the fluffy white cat Jumin Han dotes on in Mystic Messenger?

Persian is her breed, and she was a present from V and Rika, who hoped a pet would stop him feeling lonely.

Unknown, the masked hacker who lures the player into Mystic Messenger's story, is which relation to 707?

His twin brother, whose real name is Saeran, was the weaker of the two boys and was often locked up by their mother.

Zen, the white-haired RFA member so proud of his looks in Mystic Messenger, earns his living as what?

A musical actor who ran away from home as a teenager to chase the stage, he wants to be valued for his skill rather than his face.

LOLOL, the online game Yoosung plays all night in Mystic Messenger, has a name that parodies which real game?

League of Legends is the target: LOLOL stands for League of Loneliness of Life, and 707 got Yoosung hooked on it to help him through grief.

RFA, the secretive group the player joins in Mystic Messenger, is short for Rika's what Association?

Fundraising is the missing word: Rika founded the group with V to throw charity parties, and the player inherits her job of inviting the guests.

Fans and wikis call Mystic Messenger's nameless heroine MC, an abbreviation of which two words?

Main Character is the meaning, and the official 2020 webcomic finally gave her a name of her own, Hana Kang.

Yoosung idolises Rika, the absent founder of the RFA in Mystic Messenger, who is which relation to him?

His cousin by adoption, she shaped him so deeply that he at first treats the player as her replacement.

V took over leading the RFA in Mystic Messenger; what had he been to its founder Rika?

Her fiancé and partner in founding the group, he keeps painful secrets about her from the other members to stop them getting hurt.

Why does V, the rarely seen RFA leader in Mystic Messenger, hide his eyes behind sunglasses?

He is losing his sight after an eye injury, and partly for that reason he seldom appears online in the group chat.

Which nickname does Zen throw at his chat-room rival Jumin Han in Mystic Messenger?

Trust Fund Kid is the jab, aimed at the heir's privileged upbringing, and Zen refuses any help from him on principle.

707, the joke-cracking hacker of Mystic Messenger's RFA, calls himself a devoted follower of which faith?

Catholicism gave him the baptismal name Luciel, which he says he chose as a reminder not to fall into darkness.

707's hobbies in Mystic Messenger are listed as hacking and adding to a collection of what?

Sports cars are his indulgence, and in one route a furious Jumin Han steals one of them and lets it crash.

Jaehee Kang, the overworked assistant in Mystic Messenger's RFA, holds a black belt in which martial art?

Judo once let her floor an armed burglar in a convenience store, which earned her a Courageous Citizen Award.

707's favourite treats are PhD Pepper and which snack, also the prize bag on Mystic Messenger's home screen?

Honey Buddha Chips spoof a real honey-butter crisp, and Yoosung makes a single bag last for weeks because they are so hard to find.

Which holiday special of Mystic Messenger centres on Zen because the date is also his birthday?

April Fool's is the one, and the 2017 add-on turns the other members into things like a grey cat, an electric kettle and an omelette.

Zen is only a stage name in Mystic Messenger; what is the performer's real name?

Hyun Ryu goes by Zen, always written in capitals in the game, and has a difficult relationship with the parents who named him.

Which mode of Mystic Messenger, locked when a new player starts, holds the routes of Jumin Han and 707?

Deep Story has to be bought with in-game currency, and it leans harder on the plot than the three routes open from the start.

Another Story, the 2017 expansion of Mystic Messenger, shows Unknown under which gentler alias?

Ray is the gentle persona who brings the heroine to the cult, and his own route was added to the game in January 2018.

Rika's cult followers in Mystic Messenger address their blonde leader by which title?

Savior is what her believers call her, and she promises them a place of endless happiness that she calls Paradise.

Mint Eye, the cult hunting the RFA in Mystic Messenger, is based in a castle named after which colour?

Magenta is the name of the headquarters, where new recruits are locked up and drugged while they are brainwashed.

In Mystic Messenger, what did 707 hide in the heroine's apartment to destroy its files if intruders came?

A bomb was planted there at Rika's own request, and in several routes the hacker Unknown seizes control of it.

How does the player persuade guests to attend the RFA party in Mystic Messenger?

By answering their emails: each guest writes three times, and only three good replies make that guest certain to come.

Yoosung, the game-obsessed RFA student in Mystic Messenger, is majoring in which subject at SKY University?

Veterinary science became his goal after the death of Rika's dog, when he vowed to become a vet and protect her pets.

707 is known in Mystic Messenger for doing which thing more often than any other character?

Breaking the fourth wall is his running gag, fitting for the member who built the messenger app the whole game is played in.

707 passes off Vanderwood, the agent sent to supervise him in Mystic Messenger, as which household employee?

His maid is the cover story, complete with the invented name Mary Vanderwood 3rd, because the handler tidies the house on every visit.

In Zen's route of Mystic Messenger, which pop idol starts a scandal by falsely accusing him of harassment?

Echo Girl makes the claim after he turns her down, having handed him a leading role just so the two could perform together.

Which meme feline does Jaehee Kang pick as mascot over Elizabeth the 3rd in her Mystic Messenger route?

Longcat gets her vote as face of the company's cat project, a choice that shocks Jumin Han in the middle of her presentation.

What kind of business does Jaehee Kang open after leaving Jumin Han's company in her Mystic Messenger route?

A coffee shop is her ambition, born when an assignment from her boss to research the drink turned into a real passion.

What is unusual about the glasses Jaehee Kang wears to work for Jumin Han in Mystic Messenger?

They have no prescription: her eyesight is fine, and both the frames and her short haircut are her boss's rules for his assistant.

What bond links Jumin Han to V, the elusive leader of the RFA, in the backstory of Mystic Messenger?

Childhood friends who grew up as neighbours and schoolmates, they are close enough that V was the one who named Jumin's cat.

Jumin Han reaches for which drink whenever he is stressed in Mystic Messenger, whatever the hour or place?

Wine is his habit, though he admits he knows a great deal about it without much liking alcohol.

Which uncanny gift does Zen have in Mystic Messenger, one the sceptical Jumin Han refuses to believe in?

Psychic dreams that often come true are his gift, along with wounds that heal so fast the others say he has never caught a cold.

707 irritates Jumin Han in Mystic Messenger by calling Elizabeth the 3rd by which pet name?

Elly is the nickname her owner hates most, and he keeps 707 away from her because the hacker's rough idea of play upsets her.

707, the prankster hacker of the RFA in Mystic Messenger, has short curly hair of which colour?

Red curls and amber eyes are his look, and his glasses were added because fans had asked for a bespectacled love interest.

Besides its original language, Mystic Messenger offers English, Mandarin Chinese and which other language?

Spanish completes the set of four, while the 2020 webcomic went further with Indonesian, Thai, German and French editions.

Mystic Messenger won which prize at its home country's top industry awards ceremony in 2017?

Best Indie Game was its award, collected the year after the app first appeared on phones.

Rika's troubles in Mystic Messenger deepen after the death of which dog, her companion since school?

Sally developed cataracts that her owner would not pay to treat, then wandered into traffic and was killed.

In Another Story of Mystic Messenger, Unknown tricks the heroine into joining him by asking her to do what?

Test a game is his pitch, and once she agrees he tries to convince her that the RFA members are only artificial intelligences.

Unknown's white hair in Mystic Messenger ends in frosted tips of which colour?

Pink tips are thought to be the faded remains of his natural hair colour, and his eyes were originally gold.

Yoosung arrives at the party in his own Mystic Messenger good ending with bandages covering what?

His left eye was injured by Unknown during a mission to the cult's headquarters, and he arrives straight from hospital in good spirits.

Which vehicle does Zen keep in storage in Mystic Messenger, having once been rescued from a crash by V?

A motorcycle is his other passion, and riding it is listed among his hobbies beside singing and performing.

Jaehee Kang's route stands alone in Mystic Messenger as the only one that is not explicitly what?

Romantic is the missing word: she is the only woman with a route, and its story presents her bond with the player as a friendship.

C&R International, the conglomerate Jumin Han stands to inherit in Mystic Messenger, was founded by whom?

His father, Chairman Han, built the company, and the gold-diggers who chased the older man's money left Jumin wary of women.

Tapping the little spaceship on Mystic Messenger's home screen reveals what about a random RFA member?

A private thought pops up beside the member's silhouette, and each of them has one or two new ones every day.