Tsugunohi

What's more, all you have to do is make the player walk to the left!? This collection includes seven works from the Tsugunohi series, which is gaining popularity in Japan and abroad.

13 August 2021

Adventure Indie Horror

Tsugunohi is an adventure developed by ImCyan, released 13 August 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 19 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Tsugunohi is

Tsugunohi is an adventure game developed by ImCyan and released in 2021. It was published by PLAYISM. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

As the player character walks sideways, the scare production increases as the daily routine switches from one day to the next.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Tsugunohi launched on 13 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and The Forgotten City. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City.