Stray Children English release launches for PC Steam and Nintendo Switch on October 30

Onion Games has finally announced the full release date for the English localization of Stray Children. This RPG will be available worldwide for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on October 30.

This announcement means it's not much longer until players worldwide can get the game around the end of this month. For the record, Onion Games first released Stray Children in Japan last year on December 26. The initial Japanese release only appeared for the Switch. But when Onion Games later announced an additional PC release via Steam, they also confirmed that the latter will be available in Japanese in addition to English as well.

You can find the official English release date announcement trailer for Stray Children right below. You can also check out our interview with Yoshiro Kimura from Onion Games, the studio behind this title.

【About Stray Children】

Stray Children is a bittersweet fairytale RPG from Tokyo-based independent studio Onion Games. Best known for their 2021 re-release of 1997’s moon: Remix RPG Adventure, Stray Children is being created by a number of former team members behind that similarly bittersweet cult classic.

Following their contributions to other beloved cult favorites like Chulip, Little King’s Story, Rule of Rose, and Super Mario RPG, the industry veterans at Onion Games have also released eccentric and entirely idiosyncratic titles like the puzzling rogue-lite Dandy Dungeon, the operatic side-scrolling shooter Black Bird, the one-button arcade kiss-em-up Mon Amour, and the mobile game madness of Million Onion Hotel.

【The Story】

Somewhere, in a secret room, in a secret place, a curious boy flips the switch of a dusty old console. He's suddenly pulled through the screen into a very strange somewhere else: a never-released and long-forgotten retro RPG.

He blinks awake in a land where only Children live. Outside their stronghold's walls lurk The Olders: monstrous adults carrying the heavy load of their own inadequacies, self-doubt, and the many other grievances that all grown-ups gather.

It’s here — in this funny, mysterious, and wildly dangerous domain — that your story begins.