Sonokuni launching on PC via Steam on 24th March
Tokyo, Japan - 20th March, 2025 - Kakehashi Games and hip hop crew-turned-developer Don Yasa Crew are excited to announce that Sonokuni, the Japanese hip hop biopunk action game with the killer soundtrack, is set for launch on PC (Steam) on 24th March, in just a few days time!
To celebrate the announcement there's a new launch trailer, which you can check out right here:
The team is also hard at work on the Nintendo Switch version of Sonokuni, which will launch a week later on 31st March 2025.
In Sonokuni, players take on the role of Takeru, a lone assassin tasked with raiding a surreal superpower empowered by biotechnology. Join in her struggle to balance the morality of extreme violence against the defence of her own people, in a story inspired by real-life Japanese mythology (with every moment punctuated with a visceral soundtrack from Japanese developer and hip hop group, Don Yasa Crew).
Check out the Sonokuni Steam page here. Press and content creators can request a key for PC or Nintendo Switch by following the links below:
About Don Yasa Crew
Don Yasa Crew is a 7-person Japanese hip hop group who in 2020 - during the height of Covid pandemic lockdown in Japan - decided to make a game. With live performances impossible, their aim was to convey their particular have-not-hip-hop style through Sonokuni - a world and story infused with raw energetic music and a fresh biopunk take on Japanese mythology.
About Kakehashi Games
Founded in Tokyo in 2013, Kakehashi Games is a boutique publishing team that strives to build bridges between East and West. Over the last decade they have helped release over 300 of the most acclaimed indie titles in Japan, including Hollow Knight, Sea of Stars, Dead Cells, Eastward, and more. As of 2023, Kakehashi Games has become a worldwide publisher as well, with a focus on bringing the best indie games from Asia to the rest of the world. Check their website for more information.
