{"id":70248,"date":"2026-07-29T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=70248"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:51:56","slug":"toho-games-is-preserving-its-short-lived-sakuna-live-service-spin-off-by-uploading-the-full-story-to-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/toho-games-is-preserving-its-short-lived-sakuna-live-service-spin-off-by-uploading-the-full-story-to-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"TOHO Games is preserving its short-lived Sakuna live-service spin-off by uploading the full story to\u00a0YouTube\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TOHO Games, publisher of the Sakuna series&#8217; live-service spin-off&nbsp;<strong>Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin ~Hinuka&nbsp;Junreitan~&nbsp;<\/strong>has&nbsp;started publishing the game&#8217;s story sections as&nbsp;free&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ZlzoNBf6otQ&amp;list=PLDpLYb0WhdTo&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;videos. The&nbsp;prologue and&nbsp;Chapters 1 through&nbsp;5&nbsp;were uploaded on&nbsp;July 27, with the final Chapter 6 set to release on September 30&nbsp;alongside other unreleased content.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010\u30b7\u30ca\u30ea\u30aa\u516c\u958b\u3011<br>\u672c\u65e5\u3088\u308a\u3001YouTube\u306b\u3066\u30b7\u30ca\u30ea\u30aa\u516c\u958b\u3092\u958b\u59cb\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<br><br>\u4eca\u56de\u306f\u3001\u30a2\u30d7\u30ea\u5185\u3067\u914d\u4fe1\u3057\u305f\u5e8f\u7ae0\uff5e\u7b2c\u56db\u7ae0\u306b\u52a0\u3048\u3001<br>\u3053\u308c\u307e\u3067\u672a\u516c\u958b\u3060\u3063\u305f\u300e\u7b2c\u4e94\u7ae0\uff1a\u5d50\u3068\u5922\u60f3\u306e\u9152\u5bb4\u300f\u3082\u3042\u308f\u305b\u3066\u516c\u958b\u3002<br><br>\u3082\u3046\u4e00\u5ea6\u7269\u8a9e\u3092\u632f\u308a\u8fd4\u308a\u305f\u3044\u65b9\u3082\u3001\u3053\u306e\u5148\u306e\u7269\u8a9e\u3092\u898b\u5c4a\u3051\u305f\u3044\u65b9\u3082\u3001\u305c\u3072\u3054\u89a7\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002\u2026<\/p>&mdash; \u5929\u7a42\u306e\u30b5\u30af\u30ca\u30d2\u30e1\uff5e\u30d2\u30cc\u30ab\u5de1\u970a\u8b5a\uff5e (@sakuna_hinuka) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sakuna_hinuka\/status\/2081651652050977091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The farming sim RPG was first released in February this year for&nbsp;mobile platforms, with a future Steam release&nbsp;also&nbsp;announced&nbsp;at the time. However, in April, it was announced that the game would be ending services on July 27, only six months after its launch. The&nbsp;planned&nbsp;Steam version&nbsp;was&nbsp;likewise&nbsp;cancelled.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the end-of-services announcement, the&nbsp;developers&nbsp;continued to release&nbsp;new content&nbsp;for existing players while phasing out paid elements and issuing refunds&nbsp;for unused in-game currency. Now that the game has officially shut down, however,&nbsp;it seems they&nbsp;have decided to preserve its story in a readily available format by uploading it to YouTube. With each video about 2 hours long, the YouTube series will cover&nbsp;the entirety of the&nbsp;game&#8217;s&nbsp;scenario and will also include unreleased content that&nbsp;continues beyond the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thought\u00a0a somewhat unusual\u00a0approach, the decision to\u00a0archive the game&#8217;s content in this way has been met with approval and gratitude from Sakuna fans in Japan, though many are still voicing pleas for a standalone, offline re-release.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/making-it-technically-work-and-making-it-actually-enjoyable-as-a-game-are-different-things-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-suppo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cMaking it technically work and making it actually enjoyable as a game are different things.\u201d Japanese\u00a0devs\u00a0weigh in on why retrofitting live-service games with offline support is harder than gamers think\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin ~Hinuka\u00a0Junreitan~&#8217;s story sections are being archived as free YouTube videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":70260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2","date":"2026-07-29T12:00:08+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mrrut7yax325","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mrrut7yax325\",\"cid\":\"bafyreigc2w5un6sd746sfrvscq6bsoh5umnzlmbq2ak5gomyhtkkia62ce\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreicqneprxhjixb2jevpuq7azdtjf6chv7p7r33fumwr7dmdws6sv2q\",\"rev\":\"3mrrut7ykpl25\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-70248","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 v28.0 - 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