It will be available on iOS and Android, and will be released globally in Japan, South Korea, North America, Europe, and Asia. While additional details were scarce outside of a logo reveal, more will be revealed in the game’s official YouTube reveal next week on July 10 at 3 PM PST/6 PM ET.
Aniplex will publish the game, while Joycity, a mobile-oriented studio based in South Korea, will handle development. Joycity has worked on licensed games before, such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War, a free-to-play strategy game where you recruit a team of pirates and deploy them from a top-down perspective. Joycity also developed Gunship Battle Total Warfare, which is a multiplayer RTS, alongside many others.
Unfortunately, the studio also created several blockchain games, including Gunship Battle: Crypto Conflict and Crypto Ball Z on WEMIX, both of which are currently delisted in the US on the iOS App Store and Google Play store. While based on the fact that Joycity’s previous crypto games are delisted, it seems somewhat unlikely that this Resident Evil game will utilize NFTs or the blockchain, Square Enix (who own Aniplex) and its president Takashi Kiryu previously stated that blockchain games are a “focus” for the company going forward, so this will be something to keep an eye on.
The Resident Evil series has seen many spin-offs that shift the focus away from the series’ trademark single player survival horror, such as the asymmetrical multiplayer game Resident Evil Re:Verse or the weirdly good light gun title, Resident Evil: Dead Aim. However, this will be the first strategy game in the series and will perhaps present the biggest deviation in core gameplay from any of these spin-offs. There’s certainly plenty of open questions about the game, but we should know more a week from now.
