AI: The Somnium Files - Special Agent Edition
"In a near-future Tokyo, detective Kaname Date is on the case of a mysterious serial killer. Date must investigate crime scenes as well as dreams on the hunt for clues. From the mind of Kotaro Uchikoshi (Zero…
AI: The Somnium Files - Special Agent Edition is an adventure developed by Spike Chunsoft, released 17 September 2019 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What AI: The Somnium Files - Special Agent Edition is
AI: The Somnium Files - Special Agent Edition is an adventure game developed by Spike Chunsoft and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"One rainy night in November, a woman's body is found at an abandoned theme park, mounted on a merry-go-round horse. She had been stabbed repeatedly, and her left eye was gouged out. Kaname Date of the Metropolitan Police Department arrives on the scene. He recognizes the woman. Suddenly, he hears a noise from inside the merry-go-round. He breaks into the merry-go-round's central column to find a young girl. And in her hands, she grips a bloody ice pick..."
How it plays
Its themes are action, mystery, science fiction and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
AI: The Somnium Files - Special Agent Edition launched on 17 September 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
Official trailer
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