Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream

In this online co-op action game, enter a distorted version of the SWORD ART ONLINE world. Pick your role in the form of favorite SWORD ART ONLINE characters and team up with 20 players for raids to defeat…

75 4 October 2024

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Shooter Action

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream is an adventure developed by Dimps, released 4 October 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 4 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream is

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream is an adventure game developed by Dimps and released in 2024. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

In this online co-op action game, enter a distorted version of the SWORD ART ONLINE world. Pick your role in the form of favorite SWORD ART ONLINE characters and team up with 20 players for raids to defeat powerful enemies.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer for up to 20 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sword Art Online series

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream is the 29th of 32 entries we hold in the Sword Art Online series. The next entry was Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream - Symphony of a Dazzling Dawn in 2025. Its critic score of 75 is 10 points above the series average of 65. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

See all 32 Sword Art Online games in release order →

How it was received

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream 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. All of them reviewed better. 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.

Cheats and codes

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