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Press release:
Tokyo, Japan – 31st March, 2025.
The Tokyo-based (Japan) indie games publisher Kakehashi Games and indie games developer/hip hop group Don Yasa Crew, today announced with great happiness and excitement that their biopunk 2D action game “Sonokuni” is now available for the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo Eshop (with a celebratory 10% launch discount!).

In SONOKUNI, players take on the role of Takeru, a lone assassin tasked with raiding a surreal superpower empowered by biotechnology. Join in her struggle to balance the morality of extreme violence against the defence of her own people, in a story inspired by real-life Japanese mythology (with every moment punctuated with a visceral soundtrack from Japanese developer and hip hop group, Don Yasa Crew).

Are you ready to deliver vengeance? Grab your headphones and pick up the game now!

SONOKUNI on eShop

About Don Yasa Crew
Don Yasa Crew is a 7-person Japanese hip hop group who in 2020 – during the height of Covid pandemic lockdown in Japan – decided to make a game. With live performances impossible, their aim was to convey their particular have-not-hip-hop style through SONOKUNI – a world and story infused with raw energetic music and a fresh biopunk take on Japanese mythology.

About Kakehashi Games
Founded in Tokyo in 2013, Kakehashi Games is a boutique publishing team that strives to build bridges between East and West. Over the last decade they have helped release over 300 of the most acclaimed indie titles in Japan, including Hollow Knight, Sea of Stars, Dead Cells, Eastward, and more. As of 2023, Kakehashi Games has become a worldwide publisher as well, with a focus on bringing the best indie games from Asia to the rest of the world. Check their website for more information.