Demon Slayer Game Announces Release Date For Playstation, Xbox, And PC
The game will launch in North America and Europe on other platforms on July 16, 2024.
After its release on Nintendo Switch, the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Sweep the Board! game is ready to enter other platforms.
On July 16, 2024, the game will come to Playstation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in North America and Europe.
Players who do a digital pre-order prior to launch will receive the base game and a set of four stamps that are used for in game player communication.
The stamps feature Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu and Inosuke. The pre-order also includes three premium tickets that can be exchanged for in-game rewards.
Physical editions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S will also be launched soon.
Furthermore, the free update this summer will also add Kanao Tsuyuri to the game alongside Genya Shinazugawa.
About Demon Slayer:
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge.
It was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes.
The 26-episode first season of Ufotable was broadcast from April to September 2019.
October 2020 saw the release of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, a sequel that became the highest-grossing anime film and Japanese film of all time.
Demon Slayer entered its second season with 18 episodes, which debuted in October 2021 and concluded in February 2022, covering the Entertainment District arc.
Concurrently, in February 2023, a compilation film titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village was released.
From April 2023 to June 2023, a third season consisting of eleven episodes was broadcast, showcasing the Swordsmith Village arc.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Demon Slayer as follows:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon.
To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself.
Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
Source: Crunchyroll
