SHUEISHA GAMES, a subsidiary of Shueisha, participated in the G-EIGHT Taiwan Independent Game Show for the first time this year, bringing “Urban Legend Disintegration Center”, “Schrödinger’s Call”, and “UNYIELDER-Unyielder-” to Taiwanese players. Waiting for trial play of the new game, “OPUS: Heart of the Mountain”, which is published by SHUEISHA GAMES, will also hold special events at the booth, and players are welcome to participate.
SHUEISHA GAMES is constantly exploring new cartoonists and interesting works. They have set their sights on independent game development teams with unlimited potential and actively participated in various domestic and overseas game exhibitions. This year, they entered G-EIGHT for the first time and brought Three new games to be released soon.
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
The “Urban Legend Disintegration Center” is an organization that specializes in investigating urban legends such as curses, haunted houses, otherworldly worlds, etc. It uses various investigation methods to find the entities and the truth behind urban legends. In this game, the player will play the protagonist Asami Fukurai, working together with the director of the “Urban Legend Disintegration Center” and a psyker, Kaiya Wataru, to solve various tasks involving “urban legends”.
The main gameplay of this game is an exploration-type visual novel, which combines a variety of investigation methods, such as tracing the origins of legends on SNS and personally visiting the scene of the incident. With “urban legends” as the main axis, it leads players to explore and deduce “urban legends”. ” the truth.
“Urban Legend Disintegration Center” is expected to be released on Steam / Nintendo Switch / PlayStation5 and other platforms on February 13, 2025.
“Schrödinger’s Call”
“Schrödinger’s Call” is also a text adventure game with a background setting similar to the horror movie “The Black Phone”. The protagonist Mary wakes up in a strange room. As the phone rings, the player will interact with Together, Mary engages in conversations with people on the other end of the phone to unravel their knots.
Gameplay uses choices to drive the story, as souls who cannot fully die are tormented between the worlds of life and death, longing for someone to listen to their troubles. And “Mary”, the player, will be the last person in the world who can talk to them.
You need to choose what you want to say to the souls who cannot completely die and what actions you want to take to save them, and collect information through dialogue push to save them from their pain.
This game is expected to be released in 2025.
“UNYIELDER-Unyielding-“
Unlike the previous two works from a Japanese team, “UNYIELDER” is a roguelite first-person shooter developed by Singaporean game studio TrueWorld Studios.
The core gameplay of this game is based on fast and intense Boss Rush battles. Players need to use random and diverse weapons and skills to defeat enemies, loot weapons and increase their strength.
Throughout the process, players will challenge all enemies 1v1, and after defeating the enemies, they will receive random weapons and create unique attack methods to defeat the enemies. In addition, the attack methods with random characteristics will allow players to experience that even if they face the same enemies, they still have rich playability and can have a hearty battle.
This Roguelite feature will also be revealed in the “Final Boss” battle in this game. Players will create their own final Boss by picking up the body parts of fallen enemies. This not only increases the depth of the game, but also allows players to customize the battle. experience.
“UNYIELDER” is expected to be officially released in 2025 and will be launched on the Steam platform.
OPUS: Prism Peak
The latest work in the “OPUS” series “OPUS: Heart of the Mountain” created by Taiwanese independent game development team SIGONO is confirmed to be published by Shueisha Games.
“OPUS: Heart to My Mountain” tells the theme of “How do lost adults start over?” The middle-aged male protagonist who has experienced many setbacks accidentally breaks into a fantasy world, accompanied by various gods and a mysterious girl. , you will “see” the world through the photography window and capture the scenery in everyone’s heart.
In conjunction with the “photography” gameplay, on-site players can use the official Polaroid to take photos with the protagonist and leave exclusive memories. Adding the game to your wish list will also give you a visual perspective card, in addition to free toilet paper… Players are welcome to stay until 2025 and cry together!
2024 G-EIGHT Exhibition Information
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Event date: November 29 (Friday) ~ December 1 (Sunday), 2024
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Exhibition time: 11:00-19:00 (general players entry time)
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Venue: Flower Expo Center (No. 1, Yumen Street, Zhongshan District, Taipei City)
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Official website: https://www.geight.io/
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Event ticket price: one-day ticket/$300 yuan, three-day ticket/$780 yuan