
"Unreal Engine developers take center stage at The Game Awards 2021". A Nintendo Switch version was released in Japan on June 9, 2022, and worldwide the following day. An Additional Character Pack, released in 2022, added seven characters from the Entertainment District Arc as paid DLC. The first, announced in October 2021, and released in November 2021, added Akaza and Rui, the first playable antagonists in the game. The Hinokami Chronicles received three free post-launch DLC, each with two new characters. Ufotable, the animation studio behind the anime series, has produced several key illustrations for the game.
Following months of development, the game was re-announced via the issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump to be a multiplatform arena fighting game for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Later that month, first footage was shown, along with the announcement that the game, titled Kimetsu no Yaiba Hinokami Keppūtan, will be developed by CyberConnect2, the company known for developing the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series. It was to be published by Aniplex for the PlayStation 4 the company previously produced the 2019 anime adaptation.
The game was first announced in March 2020.
Inosuke Hashibira (Entertainment District Arc) (Paid DLC). Zenitsu Agatsuma (Entertainment District Arc) (Paid DLC). Tanjiro Kamado (Entertainment District Arc) (Paid DLC). Nezuko Kamado (Awakened Form) (Paid DLC). 13 additional fighters were later added as downloadable content, for a total of 31. The game launched with 18 slayers, including six who appeared in the spin-off anime Chuukou Ikkan!! Kimetsu Gakuen Monogatari. The game supports both local and online multiplayer. The Hinokami Chronicles also features a versus mode, where players form teams of two fighters from the roster and battle CPU opponents or other people. The story features some exploration elements, and is told through various cutscenes and boss battles with demons seen in the anime series. It also was released for Nintendo Switch in June 2022.Īdapted from the events of the first season of the anime series, along with Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, the game's single player story mode follows Tanjiro Kamado, the series' protagonist, as he joins the Demon Slayer Corps and faces off against various demons in order to turn his sister Nezuko, who has become a demon, back into a human. Based on the 2019 anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's manga series, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the game was released by Aniplex in Japan, and globally by Sega, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in October 2021. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles is a 3D fighting, action-adventure game developed by CyberConnect2.