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MAGES. Announces Shikai Occult Suspense Game for February 25, 2027
MAGES. announced on October 30 that Shikai, an occult suspense adventure game, will launch on February 25, 2027 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2.
Reporting from 3 sources: 4Gamer.net, Automaton, Game Spark.
Why it matters
The Science Adventure staff are applying their serialized mystery structure to a ghost story that MAGES. already published on YouTube in 2024 through Mariko Honda's recitation video, so the game extends a story the studio has told outside games.
Key Facts
- MAGES. will release Shikai on February 25, 2027 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2.
- The standard edition of Shikai is 6,380 yen including tax and the limited edition is 9,680 yen including tax.
- Ryo Yasumoto, who worked on CHAOS;CHILD and STEINS;GATE 0, is the scenario writer for Shikai.
- Tomokazu Sugita voices protagonist Shigeaki Nogawa in Shikai, with Azusa Aoi, Rikako Aida, Ryotaro Okiayu, and Mariko Honda in the cast.
- The limited edition soundtrack DVD-ROM contains 41 tracks, and Kanako Ito sings the opening theme "REDRUM".
The standard edition is 6,380 yen including tax, and the limited edition is 9,680 yen. Shikai comes from the staff of the Science Adventure series, which includes STEINS;GATE and CHAOS;CHILD, and is billed as a "non"-science suspense game. The scenario is by Ryo Yasumoto, whose credits include CHAOS;CHILD and STEINS;GATE 0, with planning and original concept by Fumihiro Kitahara and music by Takeshi Abo. Tomokazu Sugita voices protagonist Shigeaki Nogawa, a 37-year-old editor at the occult magazine Choujou Idra who investigates the ghost story "The House with the Red Roof" after a woman claiming to be a person from the story appears. Azusa Aoi, Rikako Aida, Ryotaro Okiayu, and Mariko Honda round out the cast. An opening movie set to Kanako Ito's "REDRUM" was released, and reservations opened the same day.
Two modes split the investigation. Observation Mode follows Nogawa as he looks over scenes for points of interest, and a late-night "Shikai (SEEKER EYE)" mode has the player become the eye of the supernatural and choose which person connected to "The House with the Red Roof" to watch. What turns up in that mode includes secrets and conflicts the characters have never spoken of.
- Mei Miyoshi (Azusa Aoi), 23, a timid rookie editor assigned to Choujou Idra as Nogawa's assistant.
- Akane Orihara (Rikako Aida), 20, who says she is A-chan from the ghost story and is looking for its narrator, S-san.
- Shinichi Matsunaga (no voice credit listed), 20, Akane's childhood friend and the narrator S-san, out of contact with her since elementary school.
- Taizan Ichinomiya (Ryotaro Okiayu), a temple-born exorcist and Nogawa's university junior who speaks in Osaka dialect.
- Kei Matoba (Mariko Honda), 33, a Metropolitan Police Division 1 detective called an iron mask who dislikes the occult.
The ghost story itself was posted on the MAGES. Horror Channel in 2024 as a recitation drama read by Mariko Honda, and the game builds on the play of being pulled in by it. Kanako Ito sings the opening theme "REDRUM," written by Katsuwo Kawasumi with composition by Toshimichi Isoe, and Masatoshi Ono sings "IN DELETE." ZIZZ STUDIO produced the music, and Takeshi Abo composed the score. Tatsuya Matsubara and Naotaka Hayashi are listed as supervisors, and Tomonori Fukuda, character designer on ROBOTICS;NOTES, drew the standard edition package art. The limited edition adds a setting materials book styled as an issue of Choujou Idra, with a new short story by Yasumoto, plus a 41-track soundtrack on DVD-ROM.
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