Square Enix has announced that Visions of Mana, the latest in the long-running Mana series, will be released later this summer.
Revealed as part of a new trailer, Visions of Mana will arrive on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on August 29. Its launch will mark the first new Mana game in over 15 years, as well as the first time the Mana series will have appeared on an Xbox platform in its 30-year-plus history. (Just don’t expect it on Game Pass, sorry.)
Visions of Mana was first announced at The Game Awards in 2023 and then shown at Xbox’s Developer Direct, where we got a look at the Pikul; a big, fluffy dog that you can ride around the world on. And in our hands-on preview, we said that it “paints an image of how exciting it has the potential to be. While it may seem like a scary change, the action-focused combat and the introduction of gameplay elements such as Elemental Vessels might be what the series needs to bring it back into the modern-day limelight.”
If classically styled Japanese RPGs are what you’re looking for in 2024, then you may also be interested in Metaphor: ReFantazio, the new game from the Persona 5 team. We recently went hands-on with it and admired its wild approach to dungeons, world design, and story.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s Senior Features Editor.
