Yuoni Live Once With The Sunset Edition

Yuoni is a title that showed up on my radar, further accelerated by confirmation that the game is coming to PS5 with Meridiem Games producing a special boxed edition.

It’s a bit of a way off though, as the game from Tricore Inc and Chorus World Games isn’t coming until the end of the year, but there’s enough on an enticement for horror fans if you have the balls (or other bits) to watch through the trailer further down.

In Yuoni, you play Ai, a 10-year-old Japanese girl who is haunted by otherworldly entities. It’s the 90s, and as much as that sounds like a celebration to revisit the decade, you’re forced to relive dusk, time and time again. The options are hide, run or die.

• Evolving gameplay – Test your courage in a dangerous game of hide and seek before initiating a terrifyingly twisted version of tag with abominations not of this world. Use the items you’ve gathered to flee your sunset hell, but be sure to remember the paths you’ve taken or risk being trapped there forever.
• Japanese locations ablaze with a haunting, beautiful sunset – Experience an unnerving mix of beauty, fear and nostalgia in a mysterious world where a Japanese house, school and hospital are all inexplicably connected. Explore corridors dyed twilight crimson, witness the ethereal glow of amber through paper walls of a traditional Japanese house and escape creeping black shadows in hospital rooms where the power is somehow always out.
• Hide or die – 10-year-old Ai has no defensive measures to defeat the enemies you face; instead, you must take advantage of each spirit’s weaknesses to survive. Hold your breath to sneak past blind foes or dash past deaf ones as quick as your little legs can carry you. And if you can’t get away in time, prepare to suffer a dire fate at the hands of unimaginable forces.
• A tragic tale of friendship, betrayal and facing your demons – Mute and anxious, Ai is grateful when she makes a group of friends to play with. But it turns out that the ghostly apparitions trapped in the world of dusk aren’t the only things she has to contend with; ghosts can be cruel, but children even more so. Your classmates harbour dark thoughts and harrowing secrets that you must uncover to progress. Throughout the game, Ai will learn more about her new friends than perhaps she’d care to know…
• If only there were another way… – Upon clearing the game, another ending will become available to you. What story will this new path unveil? Slipping back into the terrifying world of Yuoni will see you face considerably more challenging foes for an even greater reward.

Here’s the Yuoni trailer:

The Yuoni Sunset Edition will be available for the PS5 from the 3rd of December. For more details, check out Meridiem Games’ site.