Press release
Stray Children is coming to Steam in 2025, in English!
The new RPG from former team members behind Moon: Remix RPG Adventure!
Due for release along with its localization on the Nintendo Switch, the game's Steam page is now live, where brand-new localized screenshots and video can be seen, and wishlists can now be made.
【MEET WITH ONION AND PLAY THE GAME AT BITSUMMIT OR TOKYO GAME SHOW!】
In addition, representatives from Onion Games will be at the 2025 installments of both BitSummit (Kyoto, Japan, July 18-20) and Tokyo Game Show (Tokyo, September 25-28), and are now making appointments with any interested editors and staff.
Would you like to play the first localized demo of the game, and/or interview designer Yoshiro Kimura at either of these shows? Email us at straychildren.press@oniongames.jp, and we will get back to you as soon as we can, to work out a date and time!
Find more details and some additional images at our Stray Children press site or below, and let us know if you have any questions!
【About Stray Children】
One day, in a secret room, in a secret place, a boy gets sucked into a TV, and wakes up in a strange world where only children live.
Rumors spread amongst the children about The Olders, the adults living outside their safe-guarded walls. “The Olders are dangerous,” they say. “They come to eat us children!”
Even worse, rumor has it, the adults have fully become monsters, mutated by their own stresses and frustrations, and attack anyone on sight.
What will you do when one crosses your path?
Will you fight? Or defeat them with well-worded whispers?
Key Features:
*A wondrous, comical world filled with strange children, and even stranger adults
*Your choices and fate are shaped by a “Spinning Roulette”
*Dodge The Olders’ brutal attacks caused by their bottled-up emotions
*Whisper magical words to rescue the corrupted souls of The Olders
【About Onion Games】
Stray Children is the latest game from Tokyo-based independent studio Onion Games. Best known for their 2021 re-release of 1997’s moon: Remix RPG Adventure, Stray Children is being created by a number of former team members behind that similarly bittersweet cult classic.
Following their contributions to other beloved cult favorites like Chulip, Little King’s Story, Rule of Rose, and Super Mario RPG, the industry veterans at Onion Games have also released eccentric and entirely idiosyncratic titles like the puzzling rogue-lite Dandy Dungeon, the operatic side-scrolling shooter Black Bird, the one-button arcade kiss-em-up Mon Amour, and the mobile game madness of Million Onion Hotel.
A full list of Onion's games is available at: https://oniongames.jp/games
【Newsletter】
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About Onion Games
One of Japan’s most eccentric independent game studios, Onion Games is made up of a team of industry veterans who collectively have contributed to games including Super Mario RPG, Chulip, Rule of Rose, Little King’s Story, Chibi-Robo!, and Rez, before striking out on their own. See more of the staff’s former work here: http://oniongames.jp/about-us
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Title: Stray Children
Genre: Bittersweet Fairytale RPG
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Worldwide Release date: 2025
Official site: https://straychildren.com/en/
Hashtag: #StrayChildren
Publisher/Developer: Onion Games
Press assets/more information: https://app.box.com/s/nsk3q19g41plbyic606lcaev9eaaki77
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oniongames
Discord: https://oniongames.jp/discord
Team:
Yoshiro Kimura /Director (Onion Games)
Kazuyuki Kurashima /Character Designer (Onion Games)
Adachi Masahiro /Music Composer (Thelonious Monkees)
Hirofumi Taniguchi /Music Composer (Thelonious Monkees)
Keiichi Sugiyama /Sound Effects (Studio Qareeb)