Corpse Party (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Corpse Party

A friendship ritual gone awry transports high school student Ayumi Shinozaki and her friends to an alternate reality version of a tragedy-stricken institution that stood on the site of their own school long…

17 February 2021

What Corpse Party is

Corpse Party is an adventure game developed by MAGES. and released in 2021. It was published by Marvelous USA, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A friendship ritual gone awry transports high school student Ayumi Shinozaki and her friends to an alternate reality version of a tragedy-stricken institution that stood on the site of their own school long ago. As the vengeful spirits of elementary school students threaten their lives and their sanity, their only hope of survival–much less escape–is to uncover the chilling details surrounding the murders of those trapped before them.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Corpse Party series

Corpse Party is the 14th of 15 entries we hold in the Corpse Party series. It arrived 4 years after Corpse Party: Back to School Edition. The next entry was Corpse Party II: Darkness Distortion in 2026.

See all 15 Corpse Party games in release order →

What it launched against

Corpse Party launched on 17 February 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero and The Medium. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero, The Medium.

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