Ariana and the Elder Codex

The Librarian Ariana’s mission is to repair the Seven Hero Codices, which have been altered. Due to the terrible damages, magic has vanished from the world. By utilizing special Librarian magic that allows her…

77 21 August 2025

Adventure Platform Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy

Ariana and the Elder Codex is an adventure developed by Hyde, released 21 August 2025 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 8 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Ariana and the Elder Codex is

Ariana and the Elder Codex is an adventure game developed by Hyde and released in 2025. It was published by Compile Heart. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

1,500 years ago, there was a person who brought magic to humanity. That person gifted mankind four magic books called “The Books of the Four Elements,” which produce magic power, and a “Magic Pen” that creates magic books. Once humanity learned of the concepts of “magic” and “magic power,” they used the Magic Pen to create various magic books. Among those books, three known as “The Books of the Three Phenomena” were said to possess magic power comparable to the Books of the Four Elements. These seven books are collectively called “The Books of the Seven Heroes,” and the facility for managing and mending magic books is called the “Library.” Present day—. An incident breaks out in the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Ariana and the Elder Codex holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Ariana and the Elder Codex launched on 21 August 2025, within three weeks of Hollow Knight: Silksong, Mafia: The Old Country, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and Hell is Us. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hollow Knight: Silksong, Mafia: The Old Country, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Hell is Us.

Cheats and codes

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