Collar x Malice (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Collar x Malice

Collar x Malice is a visual novel, and follows Ichika Hoshino, who is patrolling Shinjuku, Tokyo. She is attacked, and a collar with poison is placed around her neck; following this, she becomes involved with…

82 18 August 2016

What Collar x Malice is

Collar x Malice is an adventure game developed by Design Factory and released in 2016. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation Vita.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Collar × Malice is a visual novel video game developed and published by Idea Factory under their Otomate brand. It was released for PlayStation Vita on August 18, 2016, in Japan, and by Aksys Games in North America and Europe on July 28, 2017. A Nintendo Switch port was also released in 2020. The game was well received by critics, and sold well in Japan for a niche game of its genre and platform. A fan disc, Collar × Malice: Unlimited, was released on July 26, 2018. A two-part anime film adaptation by Studio Deen, titled Gekijōban Collar × Malice Deep Cover, premiered in May and June 2023.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama, romance and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Collar x Malice holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Collar x Malice launched on 18 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer