Ikai is an indie developed by Endflame, released 29 March 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Ikai is
Ikai is an indie game developed by Endflame and released in 2022. It was published by PM Studios. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rumors have spread even through the most skeptical villagers, giving way to fear and hysteria. It’s not just a matter of gossip this time. The blood-stained leaves indicate that evil creatures are getting closer and closer to humans. It is believed that a new demon has turned up in the underworld. Its will is to cross the doorway into our world as soon as it finds what it is looking for. Such a situation requires the priest to head to the village, leaving the shrine under his niece’s control, the priestess. The crowd’s fear hasn’t reached the shrine far away in the mountains, where the priestess, Naoko, works as usual, too busy to worry. Sweeping and sweeping, time goes by, with or without…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Ikai holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 24 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Ikai launched on 29 March 2022, within three weeks of Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Kirby and the Forgotten Land. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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