Compile Heart has announced Villion: Code, the recently teased new “school RPG” by Megami Tensei and Persona series co-creator Kouji Okada, the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals. It will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, and Switch on May 25 in Japan.
Pricing is as follows:
- Standard Edition
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch – 8,580 yen
- Switch 2 – 9,680 yen
- Digital Deluxe Edition
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch – 10,780 yen
- Switch 2 – 11,880 yen
- Special Edition
- PlayStation 5, Switch – 17,380 yen
- Switch 2 – 18,480 yen
The PlayStation 4 version will be a digital-only release.
The game is set in a near-future university town built on a floating island in Tokyo Bay, where students and teachers mutated into monsters roam. Dungeons are procedurally generated and take on the form of tube-shaped environments with no ceiling, allowing 360-degree movement in every direction—similar to the classic arcade game Gyruss. Combat features “real-time speed action.”
The game’s staff includes:
- Project Producer: Kouji Okada (ATLUS co-founder, Megami Tensei and Persona series co-creator)
- Scenario: Tadashi Satomi (Persona: Revelations and Persona 2: Innocent Sin / Eternal Punishment scenario writer)
- Sound Composer: Tsukasa Masuko (Megami Tensei, Megami Tensei II, Shin Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei II, etc.)
- Character Design: Ilya Kuvshinov
- Theme Song: FRAM
- Voice Cast: Kengo Kawanishi, Aimi, Shunsuke Takeuchi, Atsushi Tamaru, Aoi Nagatsuki, Asami Shimoda
Thanks, Ryokutya2089.
Update 01/28/26 at 10:35 a.m.: Here is a first look at the game via BOOK WALKER’s free preview of Weekly Famitsu:
