{"id":65587,"date":"2026-04-22T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=65587"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:01:27","slug":"the-caligula-effect-developer-furyu-teases-new-console-game-with-cryptic-voice-audio-more-clues-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/the-caligula-effect-developer-furyu-teases-new-console-game-with-cryptic-voice-audio-more-clues-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caligula Effect developer\u00a0FuRyu\u00a0teases new console game with cryptic\u00a0voice\u00a0audio. More clues to follow\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FuRyu<\/strong>, the Japanese publisher and developer behind&nbsp;JRPG&nbsp;titles like&nbsp;The Caligula Effect&nbsp;series,&nbsp;Crymachina&nbsp;and&nbsp;Varlet, has&nbsp;teased a brand-new project.&nbsp;On April 22, the company launched an official X account for a new console game under the&nbsp;username&nbsp;<strong>Project Alice<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2660\u2508\u2508\u2508\u2665\u2508\u2508\u2508\u2663\u2508\u2508\u2508\u2666<br><br>\u3000\u3000\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfce\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd4.\ud835\udfd2.\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd3\u3000\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfce:\ud835\udfd1\ud835\udfce<br><br>\u2660\u2508\u2508\u2508\u2665\u2508\u2508\u2508\u2663\u2508\u2508\u2508\u2666 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U3D9iXXk2E\">pic.twitter.com\/U3D9iXXk2E<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Project Alice (@_Project_Alice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Project_Alice\/status\/2046861563529662789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The only post on the account&nbsp;is a mysterious and frankly quite spooky clip. Against a background of&nbsp;crackly noise, a girl\u2019s voice can be heard chanting \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sorry\u201d in&nbsp;an almost trance-like state, before growing agitated and yelling \u201cDon\u2019t&nbsp;blame me! I know! Please stop it.&nbsp;I\u2019m&nbsp;sorry!&nbsp;The images in the clip and the X account\u2019s avatar and header appear pitch&nbsp;black at&nbsp;first&nbsp;glance, but&nbsp;upon further inspection seem to&nbsp;be artwork&nbsp;depicting&nbsp;a reddened, crying eye.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teaser suggests whatever&nbsp;FuRyu&nbsp;is up to involves a good&nbsp;amount&nbsp;of angst and&nbsp;perhaps even&nbsp;horror. Apart from that, the only other&nbsp;piece of information&nbsp;we get is a date and time \u2013 April 25, 2026,&nbsp;at 20:30 (presumably JST).&nbsp;According to&nbsp;FuRyu, this is when we can expect a follow-up announcement on the mysterious game. Before the full-on&nbsp;reveal though, there will be more cryptic clues posted to the account over the course of the next three days.&nbsp;It appears&nbsp;the publisher&nbsp;is inviting users to piece together information and&nbsp;speculate&nbsp;about what awaits on April 25.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/despite-his-love-for-square-enix-reynatis-director-joined-furyu\/\">Despite his love for Square Enix, Reynatis director says he joined FuRyu because of its rare culture of letting young developers make their own games\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the username &#8220;Project Alice,&#8221; FuRyu has launched an official X account and teaser for a new full-price game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":65597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-65587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Caligula Effect developer\u00a0FuRyu\u00a0teases new console game with cryptic\u00a0voice\u00a0audio. 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