{"id":70286,"date":"2026-07-30T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=70286"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:53:04","slug":"yuji-horii-supervised-sugoroku-style-game-designed-to-end-your-friendships-announced-for-august-6-release-in-japan-gameplay-details-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/yuji-horii-supervised-sugoroku-style-game-designed-to-end-your-friendships-announced-for-august-6-release-in-japan-gameplay-details-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuji Horii-supervised\u00a0sugoroku-style game designed to &#8220;end your friendships&#8221;\u00a0announced for August 6 release in Japan. Gameplay details unveiled\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any&nbsp;and&nbsp;ArtePiazza&nbsp;have announced that&nbsp;<strong>Tensei Game: Karma x Cross<\/strong>&nbsp;(unofficial translation) will launch on August&nbsp;6 on Nintendo Switch in Japan.&nbsp;The&nbsp;game&nbsp;was supervised by&nbsp;Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, with an original&nbsp;concept and&nbsp;scenario by&nbsp;author Muneyuki Kaneshiro&nbsp;(As the Gods Will, Blue Lock). Shintaro Majima, known for his work on the Dragon Quest and&nbsp;SaGa&nbsp;series, serves as art director.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tensei Game: Karma x Cross&nbsp;is a&nbsp;sugoroku-style&nbsp;board game for up to four players built around the concept of&nbsp;&#8220;a&nbsp;game guaranteed to ruin your friendships.&#8221; Players, who start the game dead,&nbsp;take part in&nbsp;a race to reincarnate&nbsp;in hopes of earning a place in the next&nbsp;life. However,&nbsp;there are only three slots available&nbsp;for reincarnation,&nbsp;so throughout&nbsp;Tensei Game&#8217;s&nbsp;22-turn competition, players much ruthlessly try to&nbsp;eliminate&nbsp;one another.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-002-1080x608-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-002-1080x608-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-002-1080x608-1-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-002-1080x608-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-003-1080x608-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-003-1080x608-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-003-1080x608-1-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730-457289-003-1080x608-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;sugoroku-style&nbsp;game board, prepared by&nbsp;Rinne-chan,&nbsp;the Game Master&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Reincarnation&nbsp;Realm, is split into an 11-turn first half and an 11-turn second half. Within those 22 turns, players must collect as much&nbsp;&#8220;Karma&#8221;&nbsp;(the currency of the reincarnation world)&nbsp;as possible to&nbsp;purchase&nbsp;a suitable &#8220;Soul Vessel&#8221; for their next life&nbsp;(note that all translations of terminology are unofficial). They can also exchange&nbsp;Karma for&nbsp;cards with a variety of effects at card shops scattered around the board.&nbsp;Players toss an eight-sided die to progress, all while sabotaging others to avoid finishing last.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tensei Game: Karma x Cross&#8217;s developer&nbsp;ArtePiazza&nbsp;is&nbsp;known for&nbsp;its&nbsp;work on titles&nbsp;like&nbsp;Opoona, Super Mario RPG, and the Dragon Quest series.&nbsp;The project was first&nbsp;kicked off&nbsp;in April 2025, but save for a few teasers in the meantime, this&nbsp;is the first detailed look we&#8217;re getting at the game. Alongside the release date announcement,&nbsp;ArtePiazza&nbsp;has unveiled&nbsp;details about&nbsp;the game&#8217;s&nbsp;mechanics&nbsp;and footage of actual&nbsp;gameplay,&nbsp;showcasing&nbsp;various card effects and gimmicks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300c\u8ee2\u751f\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0 \u30ab\u30eb\u30dex\u30af\u30ed\u30b9\u300d\u306f\u3053\u3093\u306a\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\uff01\uff01\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENFoB1-SEA4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;trailer&nbsp;also reveals&nbsp;a&nbsp;&#8220;Rinne-chan&nbsp;Game,&#8221; a special event held every five turns in which players must decide whether to trust or betray one another.&nbsp;True to its promise&nbsp;of ruining&nbsp;friendships,&nbsp;the game seems&nbsp;packed with&nbsp;cutthroat mechanics designed to turn&nbsp;people against each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tensei-game.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tensei Game: Karma x Cross<\/a> is scheduled to launch on August 6 for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-quest-creator-yuji-horii-and-blue-lock-author-muneyuki-kaneshiro-say-their-upcoming-karmic-death-game-style-switch-title-plays-similarly-to-akutagawa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii and Blue Lock author Muneyuki Kaneshiro say their upcoming karmic death game-style Switch title plays similarly to Akutagawa\u2019s \u201cThe Spider Thread\u201d<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mysterious project by Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii and author Muneyuki Kaneshiro has finally been fully unveiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":70291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","autoblue_enabled":false,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-70286","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yuji Horii-supervised\u00a0sugoroku-style game designed to &quot;end your friendships&quot;\u00a0announced for August 6 release in Japan. 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