The official Twitter account for Sega‘s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba– The Hinokami Chronicles (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hinokami Keppūtan) sport introduced on Tuesday that the sport’s first free replace will launch on Thursday. The account and the official YouTube channel for Shueisha‘s V Leap journal streamed movies that preview Rui and Akaza, who will be a part of the sport as playable characters within the first out of three deliberate updates after launch.

The sport has 1 million copies in circulation worldwide. The 1 million is for copies in circulation that the corporate has launched however not essentially all offered. The quantity will not be a gross sales statistic.

The sport launched in North America and Europe for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, and PC through Steam on October 15.

The sport’s Digital Deluxe Version consists of character unlock keys for Demon Slayer Academy characters; avatars; butterfly mansion costumes for Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke; and eight,000 slayer factors.. The sport additionally has a paid add-on bundle that features the identical further content material.

The sport shipped in Japan on October 14. Sega launched the sport in English in Asia on October 14.

Sega Asia describes the sport:

Grow to be the Demon Slayer, Tanjiro Kamado, to combat off the demons threatening humanity with a purpose to flip his sister Nezuko, who has change into a demon, again right into a human, in addition to to avenge the loss of life of his household by looking down the demon who killed them.

The sport includes a story mode that permits followers to relive the story of the primary tv anime. A battle mode lets gamers play as totally different characters. Playable characters embody: Tanjiro Kamado, Nezuko Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, Inosuke Hashibira, Giyu Tomioka, Sakonji Urokodaki, Sabito, Makomo, Shinobu Kochō, Kyōjurō Rengoku, Tanjiro Kamado (utilizing Hinokami Kagura), and Murata. Tanjiro, Nezuko, and Giyu Tomioka as they seem within the “Kimetsu Gakuen!” shorts additionally be a part of the sport as playable characters.

Aniplex is delaying the discharge of the separate Kimetsu no Yaiba: Keppū Kengeki Royale (Demon Slayer: Blood-Stench Blade Royale) smartphone sport indefinitely with a purpose to enhance the standard of the sport. The sport was beforehand slated to debut in 2020. The free-to-play smartphone “asymmetrical survival motion sport” will pit groups of demon slayers and demons towards one another, with gamers doing battle in settings from the story utilizing varied expertise and characters.

Supply: Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles sport’s Twitter account through Gematsu