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Ao Oni Franchise Gets New Game for Switch, PC in 2025
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The creative agency UUUM announced on Thursday a new game in the Ao Oni horror game series is in development for the Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam in 2025.
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— UUUM (@uuum_news) September 6, 2024
『青鬼』Nintendo Switch™国内ゲームソフトランキング1位獲得を記念して特別セール開催。さらに2025年に新作タイトルの開発決定
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The company Game Studio and the UUUM group company Litmus are also holding a sale on the Nintendo eShop and Steam for Ao Oni until September 23 to celebrate the game's number 1 ranking on the eShop store in Japan.
Ao Oni X, the most recent game in the franchise, launched for iOS and Android in December 2020. The game features link functionality with the Ao Oni Online iOS and Android game. Players who finish the story in the new game can obtain special skins in Ao Oni Online, and players who clear limited missions in Ao Oni Online can unlock stories in the new game.
The original Ao Oni horror game by noprops makes players solve various puzzles and riddles in order to escape a demon in a locked or enclosed space. The game debuted for free online in 2004, and it is available in both Japanese and English.
The game inspired the Aooni The Blue Monster (Ao Oni: The Animation) television anime series, a collection of comedic shorts, beginning in October 2016. It also inspired the Ao Oni: The Animation anime film, which tells a new story not from the original game or any of the other adaptations. Crunchyroll streamed both as they debuted in Japan. The franchise also inspired two live-action films in July 2014 and July 2015.
The sequel smartphone game Ao Oni 2 launched for iOS and Android devices in December 2016. The Ao Oni 3 sequel game launched in December 2017. The Ao Oni Online game launched for iOS and Android devices in September 2018.
J-Novel Club is digitally publishing the novel series adaptation with story by Kenji Kuroda (Ace Attorney manga) and art by Karin Suzuragi (Higarashi manga). The novel series began in 2013 and ran for seven main volumes and one side-story volume.
Sources: UUUM's X/Twitter account, UUUM's official website, 4Gamer
