VERACITY IN GAMING
VERACITY IN GAMING
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has opened the Steam store page for JR EAST Train Simulator. The game is expected to be released in early access on September 20 (JST). Players will be able to experience what it is like to drive trains on the real-life JR East lines.
Black Witchcraft is a gothic action RPG about a witch who fights against demons. Black Witchcraft has been in development since it was first announced in 2014.
Publisher CREST has announced side-scrolling roguelite action game Dimension Girl -Jigen Shoujo- Subspace Coneru for Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam). It's based on the Dimension Girl Subspace Coneru character from the creative brand Gravity Beyond XD and its leading creator Hyperspace.
Maid Cafe at Electric Street is a café simulation RPG being made by Shanghai developer Adventurer’s Tavern that takes place in Osaka, Japan’s Nipponbashi. The game's protagonist runs a maid café, spending their days with the maids in a colorful pixel art world.
Takoyaki Party Survival is an online multiplayer game where the goal is to survive by eating a nutritionally balanced diet of takoyaki (Japanese octopus balls). Players take part in a “takoyaki party” where they compete to see how many days they can last while only consuming takoyaki of various ingredients.
Japanese game developer @8co28 has made a short visual novel called Hekimu that uses artwork generated by Midjourney. Midjourney is an AI program that generates images based on textual descriptions.
Team Shanghai Alice has announced new Touhou Project game Black Market of Bulletphilia ~ 100th Black Market. (バレットフィリア達の闇市場 〜 100th Black Market.) ZUN stated that “Marisa takes on the leading role in the game, something that is surprisingly rare.”
Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced that service for The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls will end on March 30, 2023, at 3 p.m. (JST). The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls has been in operation for over 10 years since 2011.
ONI: Road to be the Mightiest Oni is a 3D action game that tells the Japanese folktale of Momotaro but with a twist. In the original tale, the hero Momotaro works together with his animal companions to defeat a band of evil oni (demons). But in ONI: Road to be the Mightiest Oni the protagonist is one of the oni rather than Momotaro.
Toshi Densetsu Kaitai Center is a mystery adventure game in which players unravel urban myths. The game tells the story of the Urban Myth Deconstruction Center which conducts investigations on mysterious creatures and the occult.
Schrödinger's Call is an “Uncertainty Adventure” game that takes place in a world where all of humanity has gone extinct with the exception of the protagonist, a young girl named Mary. However, despite being the last person alive, Mary still receives phone calls. These calls come from the deceased who are feeling lonely and seek someone to talk to.
Heaven Burns Red, currently available on smartphones, is an RPG with the main scenario written by Jun Maeda, known for titles such as Air and Clannad. The game is unique in the way it combines highly comedic dialogue, reminiscent of bishoujo games of the 2000s, with an emotionally stirring story.