AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative is revealed

Last Updated on: 2nd July 2021, 05:41 pm

AI: The Somnium Files – nirvana Initiative had its first trailer released by Spike Chunsoft. The murder mistery game is a sequel for AI: The Somnium Files, released in 2019. The game already has a page on Steam.

The game has been teased for some time by now. The official Spike Chunsoft Twitter account posted a strange website with eye-shaped tv screens. Each of the eyes had a puzzle in it, with challenges going from morse code to cypher decoding.

By solving all of them, you would get a password (nirvana initiative) that led to an even stranger image of a skull marking a countdown.

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The reveal trailer countdown. Credits: Spike Chunsoft

By the time it was finished, the site was updated with some information about the game and a short trailer.

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Six years ago, the right half of a corpse was discovered under mysterious circumstances. The left half was never found…until six years later, when it was discovered completely fresh with no signs of decay, as though the victim was alive until just recently. Now, newly-appointed Special Agent Mizuki and her AI partner Aiba are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings…

The previous protagonist, Date, is nowhere to be found. Instead, his roommate Mizuki is now in the leading role, paired with Date’s former partner Aiba. A Famitsu article confirmed that Kotaro Uchikoshi, the previous game director and writer, will be writing the game’s scenario. 

The game is set to release in Spring 2022, and will be available for Playstation 4, XBox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. You can already preorder the physical edition on Amazon.