Sales for both titles crossed 1.6 million around the same time, so about 400,000 additional copies have been sold since then. Shin Megami Tensei 5 launched for the Nintendo Switch in November 2021, selling over one million copies worldwide in its first few months. Vengeance launched in June 2024 for Switch, Xbox One, PS4, PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.

Alongside the base game’s story, it features the new Vengeance route, with over 75 hours of additional gameplay. Atlus also added new demons to collect, a brand new character in Yoko, new difficulty levels, and much more. There are even 20 new battle themes, with the overall soundtrack increased by 80 percent.

In addition to bring the game’s first multiplatform release, Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance also introduces a host of new content that wasn’t present in the game’s original version. That includes new dungeons and demons, a photo mode, changes to Da’at and a new form for Nahobino, redone and new music, and an entirely new story route with over 75 hours of gameplay on offer.

Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance launches on June 14 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Check out details on its digital deluxe edition through here.

The trailer teases that the barrier surrounding Tokyo has broken, with Demons invading and the end of the world seemingly nigh. Various characters, including newcomer Yoko Hiromine, are featured alongside the new antagonists. The new Nahobino form and some of its moves also appear, and even the Demi-fiend from Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne displays his power.

It’s a lot to take in, further echoing producer Shinjiro Takata’s statement that the new story route offers an additional 75 hours of gameplay. Launching on June 14th, Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance will be available for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS4, PS5, PC and Nintendo Switch (with the current version getting delisted from the eShop on June 13th). Stay tuned for updates in the meantime.

While it didn’t explicitly outline a reason for the delisting, it could be to prevent confusion among new players about which version to buy, since Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance includes most of the same DLC. There is a lot more to experience, however, including the Canon of Vengeance story path, which introduces new antagonists, an enigmatic new playable character (Yoko Hiromine) and more for about 75 additional hours of gameplay.

Players can also look forward to 20 new battle tracks with roughly 80 percent of the original soundtrack redone, new Demons to collect (and hang out with), a new Nahobino form and new ways to explore Da’at. Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance launches on June 14th for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC and Nintendo Switch.

The latest 3-minute trailer is the second one released for Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance since its announcement back in February. The game was originally announced as part of a Partner Showcase Nintendo Direct.

Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance is essentially an enhanced version of Shin Megami Tensei 5, which was originally released back in 2021 as an exclusive title for the Nintendo Switch. The enhanced release, however, will also be coming to other platforms—namely PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

While Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance acts mostly as an enhancement to the acclaimed 2021 RPG, it also includes ideas that the developers couldn’t implement in the original. Because of this, the Vengeance release of the game will also feature a new storyline, locations, demons, and characters.

Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance is slated for release on June 14.

As reported by Gematsu, a classification rating for Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance recently went up on the Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea’s website. The rating was taking down promptly after it was discovered, but you can view a screenshot of it below (courtesy of ResetEra).

Though some might assume that this is a sequel to the acclaimed Switch RPG similar to how Shin Megami Tensei 4: Apocalypse followed up on SMT 4, but as per Gematsu, the rating suggests Vengeance is an expanded re-release of the game, featuring new content as well as improvements to the base experience.

Recent leaks have claimed that a Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase is planned for this week, which could potentially serve as the stage for Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance’s announcement.

In our review of SMT 5, we awarded it a score of 9/10, saying, “A staggering scope of ambition paired with a frankly absurd amount of mechanical depth make Shin Megami Tensei 5 one of the most impressive role playing games ever, and a must play for any and all fans of the genre.” Read the full review through here.

As reported by Gematsu, this comes from Diandong Langke Lu Xun, a user on the Chinese forum A9VG. Xun has built up a reputation for PlayStation-related leaks and teases, and has accurately leaked details and announcement for titles including Final Fantasy 16, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, Monster Hunter Rise, God of War Ragnarok, Silent Hill, and more.

More recently, the leaker posted a gif consisting of two frames that together seem to suggest that Atlus will be announcing Shin Megami Tensei 5: Complete Edition soon. The first panel features an image of the 2021 Shin Megami Tensei Online Live concert, which has been superimposed on SMT5’s in-game map screen.

The bottom left of this panel also includes a picture of Stephen Hawking cropped on, which is a reference to recurring SMT character Stephen, who’s based on the scientist himself. Stephen was not featured in Shin Megami Tensei 5, and this leak might be hinting at his involvement in the purported Complete Edition.

The second panel, meanwhile, shows red text on a screen, repeatedly reading “Complete Edition” in Japanese. Interestingly enough, Gematsu notes that the leaker often uses the dimensions of uploaded images to hint at dates for announcements, which means the 701 pixels width of this particular tease could be hinting at an announcement on or before July 1- which, incidentally, is also the day that Anime Expo and Atlus’ 30th anniversary celebration concert for Shin Megami Tensei are set.

Assuming that all of that is indeed accurate, it should be interesting to see which platforms the game ends up releasing for. Atlus has greatly emphasized multiplatform releases of late, and from Persona 5 Royal to upcoming games like Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor: ReFantazio, it’s also started to put its games on Game Pass at launch. Whether or not all of that happens with Shin Megami Tensei 5 remains to be seen.

Shin Megami Tensei 5 had sold over 1 million units as of April last year. Read our review of the game through here.

That’s as per a rumour originating on 4chan (via Reddit), which has seemingly leaked an image that seems to be confirming upcoming releases for multiple Shin Megami Tensei games on Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch. One of these is Shin Megami Tensei 5, which released for the Nintendo Switch in November 2021, and is allegedly headed to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Windows, Steam, and Game Pass.

Then there’s Shin Megami Tensei 4 and its direct sequel Shin Megami Tensei 4: Apocalypse, both of which originally launched for the 3DS and are, according to the leak, coming to the aforementioned platforms and Nintendo Switch. Meanwhile, Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne HD, which launched for PS4, Switch, and PC in 2021, is also allegedly coming to Xbox.

The leak claims that all of these announcements will be made on May 6, which is when Atlus will be celebrating the series’ 30th anniversary. Curiously, there’s no mention of PlayStation releases for any of the titles (barring SMT 3, which is already on PS4).

As is always the case with any unverified rumour, we’d take this with a grain of salt for now. We’ll keep an eye out for new details though, so stay tuned for more updates.

Lead modelling designer Takumi Yoshihara talks about how the team achieved Shin Megami Tensei 5‘s unique art style.

“Our approach was to maintain the dark atmosphere of the Shin Megami Tensei series while adding new 3D depictions of hand-drawn illustrations,” said Yoshihara. “We took graphics with a hand-drawn look and tried layering on Unreal Engine’s signature photorealistic effects to produce a result appropriate for modern game consoles.”

Unreal Engine’s materials system was instrumental in the game’s look. Since Shin Megami Tensei 5‘s demons needed custom materials, the flexibility offered by Unreal Engine’s materials system allowed the team some freedom in making enemies look uniue.

Lead field designer Kohei Onishi took the chance to talk about his favourite Unreal Engine tool—Pivot Painter. The studio used it to create Shin Megami Tensei 5‘s swaying trees, grass, and mysterious objects.

In creating Shin Megami Tensei 5‘s cutscenes, lead event designer Katsuhito Hora called the Sequencer an indispensible tool. “Sequencer made it easy to access and adjust a model’s internal parameters individually and to make changes for a single take, which was really helpful,” said Hora.

And finally, on the programming side of things, lead programmer Yoshiki Oyamada spoke about Unreal Engine’s visual scripting system Blueprints. In the game’s development, Oyamada states that the team threw out its gameplay scripts from Shin Megami Tensei 4 and replaced them with Blueprints.

For more information about Shin Megami Tensei 5, check out our review, where we gave the game a score of 9 out of 10.

Atlus is primarily known for its JRPGs, with franchises like Shin Megami Tensei, Persona, and even Catherine. Persona and Catherine both place a heavy emphasis on the interactions between characters alongside their gameplay, and end up being quite story heavy.

Sega’s optimism about live-action adaptations for Atlus games likely comes because of the success of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies.

“Atlus’ worlds are filled with high drama, cutting-edge style and compelling characters,” said lead producer on the Sonic the Hedgehog movies and Sonic Prime TV series Toru Nakahara to IGN. “Stories like those from the Persona franchise really resonate with our fans and we see an opportunity to expand the lore like no one has seen — or played — before.”

“Together, Sega and Atlus, are working to bring these stories and worlds to life through new mediums and for new audiences.”

The company is yet to make any formal announcement for these plans. It is worth noting that Persona 4 and 5 have gotten anime adaptations, and Persona 3 was adapted into a series of animated movies.