This Week’s Japanese Game Releases: Prinny Party: Going Overboard!, Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Dandori Academy, more
Metaphor: ReFantazio for Switch 2, Sonic Pico Park, TANUKI: Pon's Summer, and more.
The remake of Prinny Party: Going Overboard! for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, Switch, and PC, and Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Dandori Academy for Switch 2 are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases.
Also due out this week is the Switch 2 version of Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Sonic Pico Park and TANUKI: Pon’s Summer for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.
Get the full list of this week’s Japanese game releases below. It should be noted that Gematsu will receive a small percentage of money from purchases made through Play-Asia links. You can also save five percent with our multi-use “GEMATSU2026” coupon code.
Hardware
Physical and Digital
- Japanese Rural Life Adventure (Switch) – Already available digitally worldwide.
- Just Dance: Decades of Hits – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Limited Edition (Switch 2) – Already available digitally worldwide.
- Asian Version (Switch 2)
- Metaphor: ReFantazio (Switch 2) – Game-key card. Launching worldwide.
- Moomin: Midsummer Madness (Switch 2, Switch) – Game-key card on Switch 2. Launching digitally worldwide.
- Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Dandori Academy (Switch 2) – Launching worldwide.
- Prinny Party: Going Overboard! (PS5, Switch 2) – Game-key card on Switch 2. Launching digitally worldwide.
- STRAY (Switch 2) – Already available digitally worldwide.
- Sunset Hills (Switch) – Launching digitally worldwide.
- Asian Version (Switch)
Digital-Only
- 1999 TOKOYO Building (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- Adorable Adventures (Switch 2) – Launching worldwide.
- Annihilated (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- Drawquarium (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- DREADMOOR Early Access (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- DreamWorks Shrek 2 Remastered (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, PC [Steam, Epic Games Store]) – Launching worldwide.
- Football Manager 27 (PS5, Xbox Series, PC [Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store]) – Launching worldwide.
- Hard West II (PS5, Xbox Series) – Launching worldwide.
- Harold Halibut (Switch 2) – Launching worldwide.
- Hazard Levels (PS5, Xbox Series, PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- Hope in the City (Xbox Series, PC [Steam, Microsoft Store]) – Launching worldwide.
- Hozy (PS5, Xbox Series) – Launching worldwide.
- Leaf Blower Co. (PS5, Xbox Series) – Launching worldwide.
- Moomin: Midsummer Madness (Switch, PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- Nocturnal II (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- Ova Magica (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – Launching worldwide.
- Prinny Party: Going Overboard! (Switch, PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- RACCOIN: Chaos Max Edition (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2) – Launching worldwide.
- Sonic Pico Park (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Xbox One, Switch, PC [Steam, Microsoft Store]) – Launching worldwide.
- Springs, Eternal (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- Table Game World CCFOLIA for Nintendo Switch 2 (Switch 2)
- TANUKI: Pon’s Summer (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC [Steam, Microsoft Store]) – Launching worldwide.
- UnderMire (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
- Unpetrified: Echoes of Nature (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch) – Launching worldwide.
- Warhammer Survivors (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, PC [Steam, Microsoft Store], iOS, Android) – Launching worldwide.
- Warota: I Live Next to The Demon King’s Castle LOL Early Access (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
The PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch titles listed above can be purchased through Japanese PlayStation Network and Nintendo accounts using prepaid cards:
- PlayStation Store cards (yen): 1,100 / 3,000 / 5,000 / 10,000
- Nintendo eShop cards (yen): 1,000 / 1,500 / 3,000 / 5,000 / 9,000
Demos, DLC, Updates, etc.
- Honkai: Star Rail Version 4.7 Update “Now, Lay Laughter to All Stars” (PS5, PC, iOS, Android)
- MARVEL Cosmic Invasion Downloadable Content “The Siege of Castle Doom” (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC)
- Monster Train 2 Downloadable Content “The Punished” (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, PC)
- Neverness to Everness Version 1.5 Update “Once Upon a Glitched Call” (PS5, PC, iOS, Android)
- Tekken 8 Downloadable Content Character Roger Jr. Early Access (PS5, Xbox Series, PC)
- Wuthering Waves Version 3.8 Update “Lilies in a Dying Dream” (PS5, Xbox Series, PC, iOS, Android)