KEMURI yokai action game from Ikumi Nakamura's UNSEEN studio launches on PS5 and PC in 2027
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Summary
UNSEEN studio, led by Ikumi Nakamura, announced that their yokai possession action game KEMURI will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC in 2027. The game, first announced in 2023, is set in Kemuri City, a chaotic place where players can see and interact with yokai (supernatural spirits) through possession mechanics. Nakamura described the project as stemming from curiosity about the unknown and turning that feeling into a game experience.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledKEMURI began with the excitement of wanting to see something unknown.
What would happen if we could see things ordinary people cannot? And if we were possessed by a YOKAI, what would we look like? How would we move?
I wanted to turn that feeling—a little scary, but exciting just to imagine—into a game.
Kemuri City is a chaotic place where life and death...
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