Serenity Forge Announces Faraday Blues Visual Novel And Card Game For 2027
Serenity Forge is attaching the Doki Doki Literature Club! character artist to a structure of 64 endings that the studio itself describes as mostly bad ones, which puts its marketing weight on authored failure states instead of a single canonical route.
Key Facts
- Serenity Forge announced Faraday Blues on September 17 during the XBOX Tokyo Game Show 2026 Broadcast.
- Faraday Blues is scheduled for release in 2027 on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam and Xbox on PC).
- Faraday Blues is structured as three interconnected visual novels with a total of 64 endings, most of which are bad endings.
- The 52-card deck in Faraday Blues assigns one person to each card, and changing which characters appear or spend time together alters the story.
- Satchely, the character artist for Doki Doki Literature Club!, is the co-creator and lead artist on Faraday Blues.
Reporting from 4 sources: 4Gamer.net, GAME Watch (Impress), Automaton, Denfaminicogamer.
Serenity Forge announced Faraday Blues during Microsoft's XBOX Tokyo Game Show 2026 Broadcast on September 17. The game is scheduled for release in 2027 on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam and Xbox on PC). It mixes a sci-fi visual novel with a strategy card game. The story follows Lina, who wakes in an unfamiliar place and finds a table holding a card game whose cards depict the faces of her parents. Those parents do not recognize her at all, and their lives ended in tragedy, so Lina resets the board and starts the card game over. Each card is a person rather than a creature that fights or deals damage. The 52-card deck holds characters, memories, items, and elements that can overturn the history of the Faraday family. Changing which person stands outside a bedroom, or having two characters spend time together, shifts the outcome. The game is built as three visual novels that change shape based on choices, with 64 endings.
Satchely, the character artist for Doki Doki Literature Club!, is co-creator and lead artist on Faraday Blues. Narrative director Kevin Ye is attached, and music production includes Kris Wilson, the creator of Cyanide & Happiness. The game is in development with a team of three.
Serenity Forge also handles publishing for Vivarium. The first trailer arrived with the announcement, and Automaton describes the tone as a dark card adventure: "reset your parents' lives because they're too tragic." Automaton adds that saving one person can create another tragedy, and that finishing a solution tends to reveal a fresh problem, sending Lina back to reset the board.
- 4Gamer describes it as a sci-fi visual novel and strategy card game with three interconnected stories, where players chase numerous endings to draw closer to the truth.
- Denfaminicogamer frames it as a sci-fi adventure about a girl who uses cards to search for her parents.
- GAME Watch calls it the latest work from Serenity Forge, with the Doki Doki Literature Club! character artist attached, and notes further updates are expected.
How the cards get used and how story choices land are the open questions the outlets flag. Announced platforms are Xbox Series X|S and PC, covering Steam and Xbox on PC.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 4 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- 4Gamer.net Serenity Forgeの最新作「Faraday Blues」が2027年にリリース。3つのストーリーが相互に関連するSFビジュアルノベル＆ストラテジーカードゲーム
- GAME Watch (Impress) ビジュアルノベル×カードゲーム「FARADAY BLUES」発表！2027年発売へ【TGS2026】
- Automaton 『ドキドキ文芸部!』のアーティストが放つ新作『Faraday Blues』発表。“両親の人生が悲惨すぎるので勝手にリセット”する闇深めカードADV、ほぼバッドエンドなエンディング64種類
- Denfaminicogamer 謎めいた少女が“カードで運命を書き換える”ゲーム『Faraday Blues』発表。2027年に発売へ