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Studio To:NEMO Releases Steam Demo for Arishi Hi no Watashitachi e
Studio To:NEMO released a Steam demo for its juvenile adventure game Arishi Hi no Watashitachi e on October 29, 2026 at 11:00 JST. The demo covers the prologue through Chapter 1, an estimated two hours of story.
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Why it matters
The demo launch doubles as a data collection device: votes from Tokyo Game Dungeon 14 attendees and hashtag replies from demo players are tallied separately and stored as two records in an in-game gallery unlocked after the main story, so early interpretations become part of the finished work.
Key Facts
- Studio To:NEMO released the Steam demo for Arishi Hi no Watashitachi e on October 29, 2026 at 11:00 JST.
- The Arishi Hi no Watashitachi e demo covers the prologue through Chapter 1 and runs about two hours.
- Arishi Hi no Watashitachi e is planned to enter free early access on March 12, 2027 for about half a year.
- Studio To:NEMO will exhibit Arishi Hi no Watashitachi e at Tokyo Game Dungeon 14 on October 31, 2026 at booth 3N-13.
- The "#Elena's Future" prediction hashtag for Arishi Hi no Watashitachi e runs from October 29, 2026 to March 1, 2027.
The free game is set in Himmerus Crest, a green land holding traces of a destroyed previous civilization, and follows Shin, a boy who has lost every memory but his name, Elena, the girl who saved his life and dreams of adulthood, and an old man named Dustin. A nightly anomaly rewinds time to the month Shin and Elena first met, and players retrace days they already know. A diary Shin keeps fills with daily events and relics, and cross-referencing entries with dialogue reveals what the story hides. Free early access is scheduled to begin March 12, 2027 and run about half a year, with the game planned to stay free after release.
Studio To:NEMO will exhibit the game at Tokyo Game Dungeon 14 on October 31, 2026, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho, booth 3N-13. The booth runs a special playable version of about 10 minutes that revisits past days from Elena's perspective, distributes postcards, and shows an ending still before release. Visitors vote on whether the ending reads as rewarded or not, with optional written reasons, and demo players can post predictions to X with the hashtag "#Elena's Future" from October 29, 2026 at 11:00 until March 1, 2027 at 23:59 JST.
Representative Togo Oagiri framed the project around the game's own themes, saying memory and record sit at its center and that the same event can be received differently once the truth is known, which is why the team wanted to preserve reactions from before players see the whole story. General tickets for the event cost 1,000 yen with entry from 12:00, business tickets 2,000 yen with entry from 11:00. Early access will ship the main story and side stories, with side episodes of a different tone plus presentation and feature improvements added afterward.
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- Denfaminicogamer 終末世界で記憶のない少年とオトナを夢見る少女の“成長”を描くゲーム『在りし日のわたし達へ』Steamにて体験版が配信開始