Compile Heart opened a website on Monday for its new
game based on
Koushi Tachibana's
Date A Live light novel series, revealing the title as Date A Live Ren Dystopia. The game is slated for a summer release for the PlayStation 4 in Japan. sweet ARMS will perform the theme song "Kangen Yūwaku Receptor" for the game.
The game's story begins on a normal night, when Shido dreams of a voice calling out from within a deep darkness. When he wakes up in the morning, he finds a box decorated with serpentine patterns by his bedside. At first he thinks it is a prank, and asks everybody about it, but something happens when he opens it.
Tachibana is writing the original draft for the game's story, and
Tsunako is designing the characters. The game will feature the character Natsumi, who appears in the anime's third season (voiced by
Ayumi Mano). The game will also feature new Spirits.
The
franchise has previously inspired several video games. Date A Live Rio Reincarnation HD, Compile Heart's PS4 port of the 2015 Date A Live Twin Edition: Rio Reincarnation PlayStation Vita game, launched in October 2017.
Idea FactoryInternational will
release the Date A Live Rio Reincarnation game in the West for the PS4 and PC via
Steam this summer.