COLOPL has announced Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi, a premium deckbuilding tower dungeon game based on the free-to-play title Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter. It will launch for Switch on April 23 for $24.99 / 3,960 yen.
A Digital Deluxe Edition including the downloadable content “Refined Arts Pack Vol. 1” will also be available for $29.99 / 4,960 yen. The downloadable content—which includes the special “Creation Cards” Shiva, Hathor, Nephthys, Orcus, and Khonsu—can also be purchased separately for $7.99 / 1,320 yen.
In Japan, two limited physical editions will also be available exclusively via COLOPL shop—the “Tsukigami Box” for 19,800 yen and the “Shinma Artist Box” (limited to 100 units) for 98,800 yen.
Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi is a reborn version of Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter featuring a brand-new character, expanded story elements, an updated user interface, rebalanced gameplay, and new card art from Kazuma Kaneko, along with 3,600 cards chosen in collaboration with the community from the original game. The returning cards were created by a generative AI model called “AI KANEKO,” that would generate new art trained on works from Kazuma Kaneko based on player actions and decisions within the original game. Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi for the Nintendo Switch is an offline title and does not utilize generative AI to create new cards.
(Update 12:30 p.m.: A COLOPL representative clarified to Gematsu, “The original mobile and PC game used generative AI to create cards. The Switch version takes a curated amount of those AI generated cards from the previous game and includes them in the new game. The Switch version does not include the generative AI model to create new cards beyond the cards that the team has put into the Switch version.”)
“As generative AI emerged, I had a desire as an artist to create something with this new technology in a similar way when digital art evolved from pen and paper,” said Kazuma Kaneko in a press release. “As this desire took shape we created and released Tsukuyomi: the Divine Hunter which featured an AI trained on my art where players could create unique cards by playing the game. Through the AI, it felt as if I could connect with everyone around the world and wondered if we could use these cards to create something new. The result is Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi, a special game born from the connection between you all and myself through AI.”
Here is an overview of the game, via COLOPL:
About
Ancient myths awaken in a modern-day Babel. A tactical deck-building tower dungeon RPG from the legendary Demon Artist, Kazuma Kaneko.
An all-new title from Demon Artist Kazuma Kaneko, the visionary mind behind a legacy of groundbreaking games.Tokyo, 20XX. The colossal bay area megastructure, “THE HASHIRA,” has been severed from the outside world. You are a “Tsukuyomi,” an elite agent of a national defense organization. Your mission: Infiltrate the isolation zone, battle through a tower overrun by eldritch “Jinma,” and ascend to the summit to uncover the terrifying truth.
Key Features
- Razor-Sharp Strategy: “Jinma Card” Battles – Engage in intense turn-based card combat where every decision carries weight. With a strict hand limit of just three cards, you must carefully manage your resources. Read the enemy’s telegraphed attacks and choose your path: use your “Jinma Cards” to strike, or hold them in hand to bolster your defenses? Every successful battle grants you a choice of a new Jinma card to add to your current deck, opening up endless strategic deck building possibilities. Experience a battle system that is streamlined, fast-paced, and deceptively deep.
- A Gripping Story Where Myth and Reality Collide – A multi-perspective saga of four “Tsukuyomi” agents, each walking a divergent path. Switch between characters to experience their conflicting convictions and personal battles. Only by reaching the summit will you uncover the colossal truth hidden within THE HASHIRA.
- Forge a Unique Arsenal Through Every Decision – Your decisions during exploration directly shape the properties of special “Creation Cards” that are earned and added to your deck over the course of your exploration. Even if you fall in battle, these cards are not lost to the void. Instead, you retain the chance to reclaim them in future runs. Through repeated cycles of death and rebirth, your deck expands and evolves, allowing you to craft a build that is uniquely yours.
Watch the announcement trailer, a message from Kazuma Kaneko, and the announcement live stream archive below. View the first screenshots at the gallery. Visit the official website here.
Announce Trailer
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Message from Kazuma Kaneko
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