Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau (2024) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau

Time to fight back against the spirits! Play as an exorcist with firearms and purge unlawful spirits to solve the mystery of the Saiga village invasion in Nara!

4 October 2024

What Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau is

Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau is a fighting game developed by Noto Muteki and released in 2024. It was published by Amata. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2021.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story takes place in Japan, where exorcisms are carried out by government agents. The protagonist is Mizuki Shiraishi, who is an exorcist from the Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau. Shiraishi visits Saiga Village in Nara to investigate a mystery in which all trances of the village have been wiped off the internet. Upon her arrival, she discovers all villagers have gone missing and the village is infested with a disproportionate number of unlawful spirits. Electricity, communications, and the internet in the village have been all cut-off, and Shiraishi also finds out that someone is pulling the strings behind the incident. Shiraishi pursues the mystery with radio assistance from her boss…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, horror and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau launched on 4 October 2024, within three weeks of Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Metaphor: ReFantazio. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Metaphor: ReFantazio.

Official trailer