Serafini's BrokenLore: ASCEND Sets January 7 Release For Tower Climb Horror
The official Tokyo Tower license turns a real landmark into a climbing stage, and Serafini is pairing that physical height with a documented fear of irrelevance for a two-protagonist horror entry that connects to the wider BrokenLore series.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, Automaton.
Serafini Productions will release BrokenLore: ASCEND on January 7, 2027 for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with Japanese subtitles and voice audio. The first-person psychological horror game follows rooftoppers Ren and Yui, who sneak into Elysium Tower, a structure built on Tokyo Tower under official license, to film a climb. A rokurokubi stalks them inside.
Elysium Tower is Tokyo Tower, rebuilt at scale under an official license and used as the climbing surface rather than the backdrop. Ren and Yui, the rooftoppers behind the channel SKYLIMIT, enter it at night for footage that outdoes their previous climbs.
The rokurokubi that hunts them stretches its neck like a snake, so players hide on narrow footholds and move around its gaze. The developer treats the yokai as more than a pursuer: it gives shape to the pair's fear of being forgotten. Serafini Productions is a Tokyo studio established in 2022, and this entry stands alone while carrying elements that connect to the series as a whole.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.