Kodoani.com – NIS America announced on Thursday that they will be releasing their next game The Caligula Effect 2 of FuRyucho PlayStation 5 in the fall. The company posted a trailer announcing:
The game launches for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in October 2021 in North America and Europe. Game has Japanese audio with English text. The game was released for PS4 and Switch in Japan in June 2021. The game is available for PC via Steam release in June 2022.
A master named Regret created the world of Redo to save people from their past regrets by accidentally imprisoning them in a simulation. However, this “paradise” is shaken when a virtual idol named χ breaks into Regret’s virtual reality and restores a high school student’s memories to the real world. To get rid of Redo, they re-form the Go-Home Club, a resistance group seeking to fight Regret and her executioners, the Obbligato Musicians.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose will launch for PS5 in North America on May 30, Europe on June 2, and Oceania on June 9.
The remake launched for PS4, Switch, and PC via Steam in North America in March 2019. The game was released in Japan for PS4 in May 2018.
The game is a remake of FuRyu’s PlayStation Vita game The Caligula Effect that uses the Unreal Engine 4 and features enhanced graphics for the event scenes, as well as a redesigned combat system and user interface.
The original game shipped in Japan for the PS Vita in June 2016. Atlus USA launched the game in North America and Europe in May 2017. The digital-only release was in the West.
The television anime adaptation of Caligula premiered in Japan in April 2018.
