Japanese hip hop biopunk action of SONOKUNI coming to Nintendo Switch

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Tokyo, Japan - 6th March, 2025 - Kakehashi Games and Don Yasa Crew are excited to announce that Japanese hip hop biopunk action title, SONOKUNI, is coming to Nintendo Switch.

SONOKUNI will arrive on Nintendo Switch soon after the previously announced PC (Steam) version, and a demo is playable this weekend at the Tokyo Indie Games Summit.

Winner of VGC’s Game Of The Show’ award at Bitsummit 2024, as well as that show's ‘Excellence In Sound Design’ award, SONOKUNI is a Japanese hip hop-infused biopunk action game developed by the musical collective Don Yasa Crew.

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).



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.