Akash: Path of the Five (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Akash: Path of the Five

Akash: Path of the Five is a professionally-produced, fully voiced otome visual novel. Players will become Aurora, a member of a magical race of elementals. As the first elemental girl the village has seen in…

25 June 2019

What Akash: Path of the Five is

Akash: Path of the Five is an adventure game developed by Truant Pixel and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Akash: Path of the Five is a professionally-produced, fully voiced otome visual novel. Players will become Aurora, a member of a magical race of elementals. As the first elemental girl the village has seen in over 200 years, all eyes are on her fast-approaching coming of age ceremony. All is not as it seems, however, as tensions between Akash and a nearby human settlement threaten to erupt into an all-out war. Cultivate a romance with one of her five classmates, navigate the coming conflict, and plan the greatest coming of age ceremony Akash has seen in over two centuries.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Akash: Path of the Five launched on 25 June 2019, within three weeks of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. 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: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.

Official trailer