Publisher Visual Arts/ Key and developer Prototype have confirmed the release of Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet & Snow Globe, the kinetic visual novel game, for Nintendo Switch on June 27th, 2024. The game will have Japanese audio, and the text will be available in English, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Visual Arts/Key released the original Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet game in 2004 for PC in Japan. The game was later ported to PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable consoles. Sekai Project licensed and released the game’s PC version for Steam, and Visual Arts released an English version for iOS. In January 2019, Prototype released a Nintendo Switch version of the game.
Planetarian Snow Globe, an original video anime, was released in January 2021. A crowdfunding campaign for the anime also included a stretch goal for the kinetic novel version of the story, which was released for PC in September 2021.
Thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program, humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly rain falls on Earth.
Men known as Junkers plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous ruins, Sarcophagus City.
In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-war planetarium, and as he enters, he is greeted by Hoshino Yumemi, a companion robot. She assumes he is the first customer she’s had in 30 years. She simultaneously attempts to show him the stars, but the planetarium projector is broken. Unable to make heads or tails of her conversation, he agrees to try to repair the projector.
