Starting on March 28 last year game writer Kotaro Uchikoshi made some highly cryptic posts on X. Now fans’ hopes that this was hinting at a new game have been confirmed, not only by the creator himself, but also by Spike Chunsoft announcing a new Somnium Files game exactly one year later. No Sleep For Kaname Date – From AI: The Somnium Files is due for worldwide release on Switch and PC on July 25, 2025.
Known for writing VNs and adventure games like the Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files series, Uchikoshi is renowned for his plot-twist heavy stories. He also puzzles players outside the games too. For those who missed it, around the end of March last year, Uchikoshi had fans scratching their heads with a series of bizarre posts on X.
The first, posted on March 28, 2024, featured a garbled string of Japanese characters and a video clip of a glitched-out screen, echoing the Somnium Files’ sci-fi near-future setting. He followed this up with a coded message in alphabet on April 1. X user @Broken__Bee was quickly able to decipher that the coded message “eaxqedcnrpnawnycapxkp glzdsmnnhdhvrshggcmxv” could mean “im being overwatched by the authorities right now.”
However, it seems that this was more than a weird April Fool’s joke. Today, on March 28 2025, Uchikoshi reposted the glitched-out video with the Japanese text from last year. Fans quickly alighted on the fact that he was repeating the same post on the same date. In the post below, Uchikoshi quickly replied with “Same date, to save Date…”, punning on the name of Somnium Files’ protagonist- the police officer Kaname Date. Fans were quick to joke that they thought they would be saving abducted internet idol Iris Sagan, and not Kaname Date.
No Sleep For Kaname Date – From AI: The Somnium Files is scheduled to release on July 25 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam).
