Crazy Chain: Elpis no Kusari
To quit being a saint, she falls in love. "No. I’ll accomplish both love and the salvation of the nation." Long ago, a war begun by two European nations. A conflict waged through ever-advancing mysticism and…
Crazy Chain: Elpis no Kusari is a visual novel developed by Otomate, released 4 June 2026 on Nintendo Switch.
What Crazy Chain: Elpis no Kusari is
Crazy Chain: Elpis no Kusari is a visual novel game developed by Otomate and released in 2026. It was published by Idea Factory Co., Ltd.. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
To quit being a saint, she falls in love. "No. I’ll accomplish both love and the salvation of the nation." Long ago, a war begun by two European nations. A conflict waged through ever-advancing mysticism and technology continues even now—nearly a thousand years have passed. The time is A.D. 2400. Even the existence of Jeanne d’Arc, the Saint who saves the nation, has been passed down generation after generation, becoming little more than a hollow tradition. The 17th Jeanne d’Arc, born in the countryside under the Blessing of the Saint. She has but one wish: to stop being a saint. She knows this to be true: a saint loses her power either by guiding the nation to salvation… or by falling in…
How it plays
Its themes are romance.
What it launched against
Crazy Chain: Elpis no Kusari launched on 4 June 2026, within three weeks of 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and Mina the Hollower. It arrived 9 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Mina the Hollower.
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