Following an eventful set of press conferences at E3, Sekai Games announces their console game lineup! There are quite a bit of games here so this piece will tackle them one by one with a short summary. There are games for PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and even PlayStation VR. In addition, the lineup will start seeing releases as soon as this month, so please check them out. Now onto the games.
Developer: forgevision, Sekai Games, Mighty Rabbit Studios
Platform: PlayStation®VR
Release Date: June 2019The crime… is murder.
The story takes place in a court trial, set in a futuristic world where most humans have cyberbrains. The defendant on trial is an agent who coordinates with artists to create the data for cyberbrains to interact with people’s emotions. The victim is a girl artist named Lux. The jury has to investigate what really happened by reliving the memory data of the defendant.
Developer: Regista
Platform: Nintendo Switch™
Release Date: Winter 2019The year is 2030. Business is as usual in the isolated research city of Rokumei—that is, until several explosions suddenly go off in the nuclear research facility known as “LABO.” The city sends in “Sirius,” an elite rescue squad, to deal with the situation. But the situation only gets worse when LABO’s nuclear reactor melts down, sending the facility into lockdown—with members of Sirius and survivors still trapped inside.
With lethal radiation leaking everywhere and not enough anti-radiation medication to last until lockdown lifts, the survivors make discoveries that are more and more grim. In their struggle for survival, in a deathtrap full of fire and radiation, they learn that doubt is their greatest enemy, and trust their greatest asset.
Developer: Alice in Dissonance, Sekai Games
Platform: Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®Vita
Release Date: Fall 2019Who were the attackers and what was their goal?
Where did Selphine and Ritona end up?
Will the two make it home safely?
And more importantly, what has happened to their homeland?Follow Selphine, the bubbly, happy-go-lucky Princess and her sharp-witted but slightly misanthropic Royal Guardian Ritona, on their journey of a lifetime back to their homeland of Rughzenhaide.
Developer: MyDearest
Platform: PlayStation®VR
Release Date: August 2019An empty, deserted Shibuya where time has frozen over. A suspenseful mystery woven by 8 childhood friends trapped inside.
Lost memories; A strange message: “I am dead. Who killed me?”
Who is “I”? Why did we lose our memory? Who is the killer?
Fragments shattered like a broken mirror.
Where does the truth lie?
To kill, or not to kill ─ YOU decide.
Developer: Studio Élan, Sekai Games
Platform: Nintendo Switch™
Release Date: Q1 2020Maddie Raines has had enough. After years of serving as manager, editor, and general business-handler for her best friend Tara’s popular paranormal vlog channel, she’s finally ready to move forward with her own life. But when she agrees to take one last trip with Tara to the mysterious village of Eysenfeld, she’s suddenly swept up in a dangerous supernatural crisis that will change the course of both of their lives forever.
Developer: Spicy Tails, Sekai Games
Platform: Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®Vita
Release Date: Winter 2019Set in the far future on the moon, 16 years after humans have begun to colonize it. A young boy named Haru has been chasing his wildest dream. His dream is to stand where no man has stood before, and in order to do so, he needs capital, a ludicrous amount of capital. What better place to get that amount of capital by using the stock market? There are two key rules that govern the stock market.
The first rule: Never take a loss.
The second rule: Never forget the first.Only those who follow these rules are able to obtain enormous wealth…
Developer: Sekai Games
Platform: Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4
Release Date: Winter 2019“Life is like a waiting room, except people don’t leave in the order they enter.”
So when it is time to leave, where will it be? And will you be able to smile in the end?Narcissu is a thought-provoking visual novel series about terminal illness, living, dying, and the relationship between those leaving and those left behind. There are no miracles, no heroes, no villains in this story. Just life and the characters finding their own ways of facing death in an indifferent, relentless, ever-impartial reality.
Developer: Mr. Tired Media
Platform: PlayStation®4
Release Date: Q4 2019Reggie’s father was involved in the creation of the zombie virus and gave his son the only known cure along with this command: “Take this cure to where it can be mass produced.”
Since they don’t know how to use the cure in its current state, the zombie girls and Reggie travel together throughout a funpocalypse wasteland where they explore dungeons, fight weird monsters, and learn more about one another along the way.
