Norn9: Var Commons (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Norn9: Var Commons

The PSVita port that includes a mini game and bonus content. While on a school field trip, child prodigy Sorata Suzuhara wanders off after hearing a mysterious song and blacks out. When he comes to, he finds…

74 11 December 2014

What Norn9: Var Commons is

Norn9: Var Commons is an adventure game developed by Otomate and released in 2014. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Within an old-fashioned town, much like the Meiji and Taisho Era, there exists a giant globe that floats in midair. This is the ‘ship’ called ‘Norn’. The inside is set like a small town with parks, etc. The story takes place a little in the future. Guided by one particular song, young elementary kid, Suzuhara Sorata is warped through a time skip to an unfamiliar place much like the Meiji and Taisho eras from his textbooks. In this world, he meets 3 young ladies and 9 young men, and joins them on a journey aboard the mysterious ‘Norn’ ship in the sky.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Norn9 series

Norn9: Var Commons is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Norn9 series. The next entry was Library Cross: Toki ga Kitara, Kono Negai wo in 2018.

See all 2 Norn9 games in release order →

How it was received

Norn9: Var Commons holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Norn9: Var Commons launched on 11 December 2014, within three weeks of Tales from the Borderlands, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, The Talos Principle and Resident Evil. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Tales from the Borderlands, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, The Talos Principle, Resident Evil.

Official trailer