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Showa American Story

Expected releaseDecember 31, 2026
PCPlayStation 5

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What’s Showa American Story about?

Showa American Story is a role-playing adventure shaped by 1980s pop culture and the exaggerated spirit of B-movies. It presents an enthusiastic, stylized vision of North America rather than a conventional modern setting, using its unusual premise and period influences to create a world marked by spectacle, danger, and darkly entertaining excess.

The story follows Choko on a journey across North America as she seeks truth and revenge. Along the way, she grows stronger, making character development and progression central to the adventure. The game combines exploration with RPG elements in a single-player format, placing its protagonist’s personal mission at the center of the experience. Its identity comes from the collision of road-story scale, revenge-driven storytelling, and a vivid love of retro cultural imagery, producing an adventure that is deliberately colorful, strange, and cinematic in tone.

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