Three Unreleased Chinese-Market Games Draw Notice, Led by NUTAYU's Stellar Trace
Two of the three are Chinese-market titles built on Japanese licenses or Japanese voice casts, and all three are still pre-release, so what this roundup shows is a pipeline aimed at Japan before any of it is playable there.
Reporting from 1 source: Inside.
A roundup of three games not yet released in Japan. NUTAYU's Stellar Trace, tied to Stellar Trace: Kalpa Everlasting, is now a sandbox-style 2D action RPG with Japanese voice acting already recorded and a planned first-quarter 2028 release per TapTap. Mashin Hero Wataru: Divine Dragon Warrior, a licensed idle card RPG, opens October 28. The 3D romance adventure Cloud Dream Journey is still in pre-registration with no next test scheduled.
None of the three has a Japanese release date, and only one has a firm date anywhere. Mashin Hero Wataru: Divine Dragon Warrior, licensed by Sunrise, took pre-registration quietly on bilibili and TapTap and now targets October 28 after a September 17 launch was postponed. Stellar Trace has a beta schedule still undecided. Cloud Dream Journey is still accepting pre-registration with no next test in sight.
The gap between what was announced and what is playable is the story here: Stellar Trace's videos all carry Japanese voice acting, but the game itself sits two years out by its own TapTap page.
- Stellar Trace: NUTAYU's sandbox-style 2D action RPG, set in a world where the cycle of life and death has stopped; planned for the first quarter of 2028
- Mashin Hero Wataru: Divine Dragon Warrior: Sunrise-licensed idle card RPG for smartphones; release set for October 28 after a September 17 launch was postponed
- Cloud Dream Journey: 3D romance adventure for women using AI-driven conversation with male characters; next test schedule undecided
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.