ANOMALITH — everything we know

The setting is the part everyone reacts to first. FURYU’s one-line description calls ANOMALITH a survival third-person shooter set in Japan, steeped in the atmosphere of liminal spaces and Showa-era retro aesthetics, in which a girl steps into a world writhing with anomalies to search for her missing friend. The producer put the premise plainly in a media briefing: the world is built on the question of what Japan would look like if the Showa period had continued past a Showa 64 that does not exist. The apartment complexes, the vending machines, the shopping arcades and the pastel signage are all period-correct — and then various anomalous phenomena take over.

The influences are stated outright rather than left to guesswork. The concept adopts SCP and liminal space, and some enemies deliberately carry traits resembling famous SCP entries. The Backrooms is named as the specific image source. And one line from that briefing says more about the design than any trailer does: the game is built so that you feel eeriness rather than fear. That is a narrower target than most horror games aim for, and it explains the whole aesthetic — wrongness rather than dread.

Anomaly Zones suddenly appear without any sign. Reona Minazuki, seventeen, was visiting a mall with her best friend Arisa Kato when the building anomalized and the two were separated. Reona got out; Arisa did not, and her whereabouts have remained unknown ever since. In search of her missing friend, Reona becomes a Diver for the government-backed Anomaly Zone Countermeasures Office and returns to the Anomaly Zone of her own will. On that first Dive, as countless other Divers fall victim to the Zone, a strange power awakens within her. She is the sole survivor, and from there she heads deep into the abyss of Anomaly Zones.

The Office around her is small and specific. Yuiga Koda is the operator who provides precise support during Dives. Kyoka Sudo founded and runs it, having wandered an Anomaly Zone for an extended period and found her way out through her own strength. Imari Fushimi heads research and develops equipment using anomalous objects obtained from the Zones. May Hibiya, a former elite Diver, now oversees the storage and security of those objects. Kaede Mori is a mysterious person Reona meets on a Dive. An eighth character on the official roster is credited only as “Girl” — the young girl who temporarily joined Reona and Arisa when they became trapped in the anomalized mall, mute since the shock of seeing her parents killed by Anomalies. Her voice actor is deliberately withheld.

FURYU names the loop itself. You go into an anomalous space, you fight, you collect, you extract; between runs you are at a base. The official framing for combat is explicit: while exploring Anomaly Zones, Reona has no choice but to engage strange creatures called Anomalies, and you manage your ammunition and carefully select what to retrieve as you make your way to extraction. That is extraction-style pressure applied to a linear-feeling horror game, and it is the reason the word survival is in the genre. Against hostile Anomalies, selecting the right weapon for the situation is what FURYU calls the key to survival.

Reona has exactly twelve distinct Anomalization Skills — the number is stated outright in FURYU’s announcement material. They are described as versatile offensive and defensive abilities used to control the flow of combat, and they include parries, homing projectiles and decoys; some exist specifically to reverse a situation where you have been surrounded. They support the gunfight rather than replacing it. Japanese hands-on coverage from the reveal singled out the parry as the thing that feels best, which is a notable thing for Japanese press to say about a FURYU action game.

Gun customization runs on swappable attachments — muzzles, stocks and so on — so a weapon type is a starting point rather than a fixed loadout, and artifacts utilize attachments in the same way. Artifacts retrieved from Anomaly Zones raise your stats, and anomalous objects retrieved from the Zones feed the workshop, where you use them to develop and upgrade weapons and gear.

Costumes are split across nine slots and do affect stats. But outward appearance can be changed without affecting stats, which as FURYU puts it makes it possible to go on Dives in your favorite fashion — the cosmetic layer and the stat layer are deliberately decoupled.

FURYU’s own materials say 29 October 2026 (JST). Steam and Nintendo of Europe both display 28 October 2026, which is the same moment expressed west of Japan. Steam’s own early-purchase-bonus fine print gives it away: the bonus window runs from October 29 to November 11, labelled JST. There has been no delay and no staggered regional release — just a storefront showing you your own calendar. No release time of day has been announced anywhere.

In the West the digital release comes first, with NIS America publishing a physical PS5 Launch Edition on 12 November 2026. The Digital Deluxe adds an 80-page digital art book, a select mini-soundtrack, an “Armed Schoolgirl” outfit triple combo, three weapons — a semi-automatic sniper rifle, a double-barreled shotgun and a prototype handgun — and a consumable item set called the Anomaly Zone Countermeasures Office Set. Japan additionally gets a limited physical box, and the Switch 2 physical release ships on a game-key card rather than a full cartridge.

Pre-order bonuses differ by platform, which is worth reading twice if you care about cosmetics. PlayStation 5 pre-orders get a blue Causal Punk outfit and Diver Set A; Switch 2 pre-orders get a red Causal Punk outfit and Diver Set B. The PS5 Digital Deluxe listing additionally carries 48 hours of early access; the Switch 2 Deluxe listing does not, and neither does Steam. On Steam the equivalent is an early-purchase bonus running 29 October to 11 November JST: the collaboration side mission, a costume set, a probe skin and a Development Materials Set. FURYU adds one line worth reading before you rush a pre-order — these bonuses may become available separately at a later date.

The pre-order and early-purchase bonus is a tie-in with the Lost Property Control Organization, and it is the strangest thing on this page. It is not another FURYU game — it is a fictional one, an art project by the Japanese illustrator Hoshi, who spent years posting illustrations of a horror game that was never made. KADOKAWA collected them in February 2025 as an art book laid out like a strategy guide for a title with no code behind it. So a real game is collaborating with an imaginary one. The tie-in adds a side mission called Contradictory Otherworld Response, accepted from the board in the Workshop once side missions unlock, plus a costume set and a probe skin. The collaboration is confirmed by FURYU and Steam; the attribution to Hoshi comes from KADOKAWA and Japanese press rather than from a FURYU statement.

Scenario is by Romeo Tanaka, credited by Japanese coverage with Stella of the End, CROSS†CHANNEL and Humanity Has Declined. Character design is by MON; Japanese sources describe the work — delicate linework applied to malformed shapes — rather than listing prior credits, while FURYU’s English press materials attribute NisiOisin’s Legends series. Music is by Yuka Kitamura, credited by Japanese outlets with Dark Souls III and Elden Ring, with FURYU’s English press pack adding Sekiro, Bloodborne and Witch Hat Atelier. The producer is Gai Kidokoro.

On the development side there is an open question worth stating plainly: the Steam page lists FURYU CORPORATION as both developer and publisher, while press coverage and Wikidata both credit Winning Entertainment Group, formerly Natsume Atari, as developer. Neither has been corrected, so both are reported here.

Full voice acting is Japanese only. English, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are subtitle-and-interface languages. This is not hidden — it is on the Steam language table — but no store page puts it in front of you, and for a story-driven game with a named voice cast it is the single most decision-relevant fact on this page.