Yami Launches YAMI GAMES Label With Meta-Horror Title Tarou-kun Has Come
An exhibition company moving into games puts its horror brand on a storefront instead of a venue, and YAMI GAMES already has Tokyo Horror Special Zone 2026 and Tokyo Game Show appearances lined up.
Reporting from 1 source: GAME Watch (Impress).
Yami, the company behind the Haunting Exhibition and Fear Exhibition horror shows, has started a game label called YAMI GAMES. Its first release, the meta-horror game Tarou-kun Has Come, launched on August 28 at 1,500 yen. Producer Tsubasa Fujita and developers BeforeHomeWorks spoke to GAME Watch about building the label and the game, where players check a missing streamer's unplayable video against web pages to find out why it stops.
The label comes out of Yami's exhibition work, including the Haunting Exhibition and last year's Fear Exhibition. Producer Tsubasa Fujita, who led the game business, said horror games attract easy reactions and are picked up by streamers, which is why he proposed the genre.
The first title is a meta-horror game: the player opens a missing small-time streamer's final video, finds it will not play to the end, and searches web pages for a way forward. Developer BeforeHomeWorks started the project on Unreal Engine 5 from a concept about a realistic character entering a cave, which led to a streamer protagonist. YAMI GAMES is also set to appear at Tokyo Horror Special Zone 2026, opening September 11 at Tokyo Dome City, and at Tokyo Game Show.
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- GAME Watch (Impress) 再生してはいけない動画の恐怖は現実にも……。YAMI GAMES第1弾「たろうくんはいってきました」開発陣インタビュー