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Spike Chunsoft Reveals New Re:Zero Game for PS4, Switch, PC

Steam this winter.

The game will center on the Royal Selection storyline from the anime's first season, but will contain entirely new "what-if" events, with plot supervision by original author Shinichirou Otsuka is handling the game's character illustrations.

Amazon U.K. is listing a new Re:Zero game developed by Spike Chunsoft titled Re:Zero - The Prophecy of The Throne with a very similar premise. Amazon U.K. is listing the game for both PS4 and Switch with a listed December 31 release. The game's description is as follows:

One month after Subaru's new life in another world began, an emissary sent by the Royal castle suddenly appears with news that the Royal selection has been postponed, but offers no reason as to why. The postponement of this grand event that decides the next ruler of the kingdom of Lugunica stirs Subaru and his friends into action. They return to the Royal Capital only to find that a sixth candidate has claimed their stake for the throne. But the Dragon Stone prophesizes that only five Candidates would be chosen. With one candidate being an imposter, suspicions are immediately cast toward One woman in particular: Emilia. What answers lie beyond the mysterious web of assassination, betrayal, and conspiracies...?

A separate smartphone debut this summer.

The 25-episode first dub in June 2018.

The anime has also inspired two original video anime (streaming the Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World - The Frozen Bond OVA in April.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Director's Cut, an streamed the anime.

The anime's second premiere in July, after being delayed from April.

Sources Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Itsuwari no Ōsen Kōho game's website, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web via Gematsu