Spike Chunsoft has announced that it will release Shuten Order as a digital exclusive for Nintendo Switch in North America and Europe.
DMM Games and Tookyo Games have teamed up for this “multi-genre adventure game,” which has been led by Danganronpa series creator Kazutaka Kodaka. The game will let you experience five different gameplay systems within a single game, which include stealth action horror and a multi-perspective visual novel.
The game’s story description sets the scene: “Humanity is approaching its end. In a world steeped in despair and chaos, a strange religious organisation called Shuten Order emerges, yearning for the end of humanity. The group rapidly gains followers, eventually forming a small nation-state called Shuten. Then one day, someone murders the Founder.
“Following their death, the Founder is resurrected as Rei Shimobe (protagonist), by a miracle known as ‘the Power of God.’ However, the resurrection is incomplete—their memories are gone, and their life limited to a mere four days.
“Two self-proclaimed ‘angels’, God’s messengers, arrive and declare to the protagonist that to achieve true resurrection, they must overcome ‘God’s trial’: identify and kill their murderer. Thus begins a high-stakes, four-day hunt for the truth, with their own life and the fate of the world at stake.”
The publisher has outlined the game’s key features, which include:
- Multi-genre ADV: 5 Different Game Systems: The suspects are 5 ministers who control the Shuten Order’s government. Depending on who you suspect, both the storyline and game system can diverge 5 different ways.
- Ministry of Justice: Mystery Adventure: During investigations and interviews, use the “Snapping” feature to closely analyze suspicious statements and intriguing objects. Piece together evidence and make brilliant deductions to find the murderer.
- Ministry of Health: Extreme Escape Adventure: A dark and unnerving 3D maze… Intellectual puzzles that obstruct exploration and kill indiscriminately if left unsolved… Immoral rules that pit participants against each other. Sometimes, fighting is needed, and other times, teamwork, in order to survive this death game and escape from the mysterious locked space.
- Ministry of Science: Multi-Perspective Visual Novel: A visual novel adventure featuring differing points of view and differing agendas. Make use of the flowchart and survive to the end of a scenario filled with multiple chronologically branching routes.
- Ministry of Education: Romance Adventure (?): After being poisoned by Honoka Kokushikan, the protagonist Rei is led to a certain school and meets three girls calling themselves “Kokushikan”. To unmask the real Honoka—who has the antidote—increase each girl’s Affection and make a successful confession of love.
- Ministry of Security: Stealth Action Horror: Freely explore a 3D map while evading and hiding from the wandering killer, Nephilim. Deal with numerous gimmicks with one goal in mind: survive.
Shuten Order will be released digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch worldwide on 5 September 2025.
