Community28 Nov 2025Nominate SONOKUNI for the Steam Awards 2025!Hello, everyone! The 2025 Steam Awards are open for nominations , and we'd love it if you considered SONOKUNI for the "Best Game You Suck At" Award ! As the award itself describes, this category is for games that "reward persistence and are not for the faint of heart". With Japanese hip-hop thumping in your ear as you slaughter your way through beastly baddies (and die a few hundred times along…
We're excited to announce a new free content update to SONOKUNI! From today, you can dig deep into a vast collection of artwork, design notes, and music tracks as part of a new Gallery Mode. Boot up the game from today and you'll find a new option down at the bottom of the main menu. Select that and you'll get to peek behind the curtain to see how the final designs of SONOKUNI came to be, from…
Hi everyone, A quick note to let you know that Valve has completed its assement of SONOKUNI on Steam Deck and as you can see it has come out of the other side of that process with a shiny new 'Verified' badge! We knew SONOKUNI would run just fine on the Steam Deck (we've been playing and testing it ourselves on the device for a long time prior to launch), but to have the stamp of approval from…
Hi everyone, We've said it before and we'll say it again: thank you so much to everyone who has picked up SONOKUNI. It's been over a month since launch and we've been blown away by the positive reception! Special thanks go to everyone that has left a review on Steam as well - every single one counts! As mentioned in our previous patch note posts, we've got our ears to the ground and are listeni…
Hi everyone, As we mentioned in the last patch notes: a huge THANK YOU to everyone that has picked up SONOKUNI in the (almost) 2 weeks since launch. The positive feedback has been incredible (100% positive reviews on Steam at time of writing!). That said, we're also listening for any and all feedback to help make the game better and better, so please do take to the Steam Discussion board with a…
Hi everyone, Before we get into the details of this 1.0.2 patch for SONOKUNI, we just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has picked up the game and especially to those who have left such awesome feedback. It's been just over a week since launch and we've been blown away by the positive responses (and head bopping emojis). All that said, if you do have any additional feedback to shar…
We're excited to announce that the Japanese hip hop biopunk action of SONOKUNI is available right now via Steam! In SONOKUNI, you'll 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 mytho…
As seen during Future Games Show's Live From GDC Showcase , Sonokuni, the Japanese hip hop biopunk action game with the killer soundtrack, is set for launch on 24th March , in just a few days time! To celebrate the announcement there’s a new launch trailer, which you can check out right here (complete with new track from Japanese hip hop crew-turned-developer, Don Yasa Crew): See you on Monday!…
For anyone that caught it, you might have spotted (and you definitely heard) Sonokuni during the PC Gaming Most Wanted Showcase 2024! During the show we revealed a new trailer showing some more gameplay and side-on sections, as well as a brand new track from the game. Check out that new trailer right here: And you can check out the sick new track from Don Yasa Crew in full via YouTube here: Alo…
It’s been a busy few months but while we have a little bit of breathing room we wanted to jump into your Steam news feeds with a few updates on Sonokuni, both on development progress and some other news too. Summer adventures Over the Summer we took Sonokuni to Bitsummit, where it won two (!) awards: Excellence in Sound Design and VGC’s Media Highlight Award . Sonokuni was also playable on the…
We're excited to announce that the Japanese hip hop biopunk action of Sonokuni is hitting the showfloor of Bitsummit Drift! BitSummit is the biggest event of the Japanese indie game calendar, and is being hosted at Miyako Messe in Kyoto from Friday July 19th until Sunday July 21st. If you happen to be attending the show (or are lucky enough to be in Kyoto!) then pop over to our booth and play!…
A huge 'thank you' to everyone who has tried out the Sonokuni demo during Steam Next Fest! We've been floored by the response so far - keep the feedback coming in! For anyone that spotted the game during Steam Next Fest but has not had a chance to play the demo yet - don't worry: we're planning on leaving the demo live for a little while longer yet (probably for another week). After that we'll…
Join us for an introduction to the hip hop biopunk action of Sonokuni during our Steam Next Fest pre-recorded streams. Tune in during our featured time slots and you'll find us hanging out in chat, so feel free to fire over any questions or thoughts.
It’s been a few days since we debuted the new Sonokuni gameplay trailer at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, and we’ve been floored by the response so far. A lot of folks have specifically asked about the new music track, ‘Agaya’, and since the playable demo went live as part of Steam Next Fest we've also had a lot of questions regarding the other tracks - specifically for Stage 2 and the…
Join us for an introduction to the hip hop biopunk action of Sonokuni during our Steam Next Fest pre-recorded streams. Tune in during our featured time slots and you'll find us hanging out in chat, so feel free to fire over any questions or thoughts. Our first slot is on 13th June, 9am PDT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST / 1am (next day) JST.
Sonokuni has just been featured in the Future Games Show Summer Showcase! To celebrate we’ve put together a brand new trailer to show off protagonist Takeru’s particular set of biopunk enemy dispatching skills, alongside a brand new track, ‘Agaya’ from hip hop crew turned developer Don Yasa Crew. Click below to get a peek at the new trailer and track. A heads-up that there’s just a couple of da…
Don Yasa Crew and Kakehashi Games are excited to announce that the Japanese hip hop biopunk action of Sonokuni is coming to Steam Next Fest. We’re just putting the finishing touches on the demo, which will showcase the first two levels, alongside a boss-fight-flavoured challenge for those skilled enough to reach the end. Wishlist now to ensure you get alerted when the demo goes live on 10th Jun…
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