Angel Beats! 1st Beat (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Angel Beats! 1st Beat

Angel Beats! 1st Beat is a Japanese visual novel based on the 2010 anime television series Angel Beats!, developed by Key and the first in a planned series of six volumes. It takes place in the afterlife and…

25 June 2015

What Angel Beats! 1st Beat is

Angel Beats! 1st Beat is an adventure game developed by Key and released in 2015. It was published by Visual Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Siglus.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The stage is set in the afterlife, where young boys and girls stand up against their own destiny. The story follows Otonashi, a young man who met his end due to certain circumstances and awakens in a high school within this mysterious world. There, he encounters a girl named Yuri, the leader of the "Afterlife Battlefront"—an organization rebelling against God for the unfair lives they were forced to endure. They wage fierce battles day and night against a single, lovely girl known as "Angel," a servant of God. Having lost all memories of his previous life, Otonashi is left completely bewildered, unable to grasp what is happening in this post-mortem world. Ultimately, he chooses to join the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Angel Beats! series

Angel Beats! 1st Beat is the second of 2 entries we hold in the Angel Beats! series. It arrived 12 months after Angel Beats! Operation Wars. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

See all 2 Angel Beats! games in release order →