AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative

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Cover art, featuring Mizuki, Aiba, Ryuki, and Tama
Developer(s)Spike Chunsoft
Publisher(s)Spike Chunsoft
Director(s)Akira Okada
Producer(s)Yasuhiro Iizuka
Designer(s)Akira Okada
Artist(s)Yūsuke Kozaki
Writer(s)Kotaro Uchikoshi
Composer(s)Keisuke Ito
EngineUnity
Platform(s)
Release
  • JP: June 23, 2022
  • NA: June 24, 2022
  • EU/OC: July 8, 2022
Genre(s)Adventure, visual novel
Mode(s)Single-player

AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative (// EYE) is a 2022 visual novel adventure video game developed and published by Spike Chunsoft. It is a sequel to AI: The Somnium Files (2019) and follows an older Mizuki Date alongside a new playable protagonist Kuroto Ryuki as they investigate the "Half-Body Murders". Gameplay is presented in both visual novel format and third-person exploration for dream investigation sequences.

Writer Kotaro Uchikoshi returns to script the game and reunites with character designer Yūsuke Kozaki, while the first game's designer and assistant director Akira Okada took over as director.

The game was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in June 2022 in Japan and North America, and July 2022 in Europe and Oceania.