VR Game Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections Announced, Set For 2026

Pixelity explained that the game will be a “new story” that takes place during the events of episodes 1-11 in the anime, with the following two games in the trilogy handling the rest of the 26-episode show. Apparently, the game’s “standout feature is the intricate weaving of key episodes from the existing storyline with completely new, game-original narrative content.”

“This title presents a new story set within the timeline of all 26 episodes of the TV anime ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion,’” Pixelity’s press release reads. “It features trainee characters with diverse backgrounds and hidden motives, all aiming to become the NERV staff members. The game unfolds from the perspective of the protagonist (the player), who dreams of becoming a pilot. Connections between the original anime’s key episodes and the game’s original characters are also among its major highlights.” While this won’t be the first Evangelion video game (there have actually been, like, a lot of them), it will be the first in quite a while. Outside of mobile titles and pachinko machines, the last one was the rhythm game, Rebuild of Evangelion: -3nd Impact-, for the PSP.

For those outside the know, Neon Genesis Evangelion is a 1995 anime heralded by many as an all-time great. It stars Shinji Ikari, a middle schooler forced by his absentee father to pilot a massive murder mech so he can save Japan from mysterious giant monsters dubbed “Angels.” The original 26-episode show was followed by The End of Evangelion in 1997, which offered an “alternate” ending, and then by the four-part Rebuild of Evangelion film series that released from 2007 to 2021 (and kick ass).

If Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections hits its planned release date, it will come out roughly five years after Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, a film that works as a meta-critique of the Evangelion “franchise” which pleads that its audience and the series’ rights holders move on and stop caring about it so much.