Our peers at Dengeki Online publishedan interviewwith Aquaplus following theannouncementof the second and thirdUtawarerumonogames' Steam ports,Mask of Deception, andMask of Truth. The end of the interview has Aquaplus mentioning multiple newUtawarerumonoconsole games are in development: “We’re working on multiple console games. We hope you’ll play these Steam ports as you wait for future announcements”. Note that while we say console game, it’s in opposition to mobile game, so these upcoming games could release on both consoles and PC. Shoutout toRenka_Schedulefor pointing out that part of the interview.
This isn’t the first time Aquaplus mentioned multipleUtawarerumonogames are coming. The studio already said so in an interview before the Japanese release ofUtawarerumono Zanin September 2018, meaning these games have been in development for a while now. What’s even more interesting is howUtawareromono Lost Flag, a mobile game, released since then in Japan on June 14, 2025. Aquaplus again mentioned back then that while it cannot ignore the mobile market, console games are still coming. For now,Lost Flagreached over 2 million downloads in Japan.
Regarding these new console games, I personally believe at least one of these games will be a visual novel with tactical RPG elements like classicUtawarerumonogames, and one of the others will be exploring a new gameplay system like action RPGUtawarerumono Zandoes.
The remake of the first game in the trilogy,Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallenis also coming to Steam in English this year.
The firstUtawarerumonogame released on PC in Japan in 2002. The game is heavily influenced byAinu cultureand features a country based on feudal Japan inhabited by humans with animalistic features. While it sadly never became as big as Type-Moon’sFate/Stay Night,the Utawarerumono franchise is pretty popular overall, with multiple anime adaptations.
