NetEase Games has announced its new Japanese fantasy RPG Onmyoji: The World during the NetEase Connect 2021 conference worldwide Livestream. The newest installment of the critically acclaimed Onmyoji franchise will serve as a spin-off to the series and will come to multiple platforms in Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
In continuation of the “Onmyoji” timeline based in Japan’s Heian-Kyo period, players are tasked with protecting the city of Kyoto where an unprecedented disaster has plunged the city into abyssal darkness. The dark forces roaming the city seek to push the world to the edge of its destruction, ending the grips of humanity. Players take on the role of the game’s protagonist who finds themselves on an adventure that encounters many new people, youkai, and enemies.
