Bandai Namco has announced that Unknown 9: Awakening, their upcoming narrative action-adventure game developed by Reflector Entertainment, will be available in Spring 2024 (ANZ). The game will be released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
A new trailer has been released, shedding light on the motivations driving Haroona’s quest and introducing some of the friends and foes she will encounter. Haroona has been trained since childhood by her mentor, Reika, to master her unique Fold-related abilities. Reika taught her the intricacies of this other dimension and often spoke of the Unknown 9, enigmatic immortal figures believed to hold all of humanity’s knowledge.
This training abruptly ends when Vincent Lichter, a former pupil of Reika’s and leader of the Ascendants, takes Reika’s life. Lichter believes the Unknown 9 have hindered humanity’s potential and is determined to eliminate their influence. He aims to ensure humankind controls its own destiny, regardless of the consequences. Haroona, deeply affected by Reika’s death, sets off on a journey to stop Lichter and prevent humanity’s best-kept secrets from falling into the wrong hands.
Unknown 9: Awakening is a third-person, narrative-driven, action-adventure game that follows Haroona, a Quaestor born with the ability to access the Fold, a mysterious dimension overlapping our own. On her quest for hidden knowledge, she will learn to master her connection to the Fold, channelling its powers into our world. However, this power attracts the attention of the Ascendants, a splinter faction of the secretive Leap Year Society, which aims to use the Fold to alter human history.
