The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak

The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak
Developer(s)Nihon Falcom
Publisher(s)NIS America
  • JP: Nihon Falcom
  • PAL: Clouded Leopard Entertainment
Director(s)Takayuki Kusano
Producer(s)Toshihiro Kondo
Programmer(s)
  • Yuki Hirata
  • Toru Endo
  • Nobuhiro Hioki
Artist(s)Katsumi Enami
Writer(s)
  • Hisayoshi Takeiri
  • Yuuta Miyazaki
  • Syunsei Shikata
Composer(s)
  • Hayato Sonoda
  • Shuntaro Koguchi
  • Yukihiro Jindo
  • Mitsuo Singa
SeriesTrails
Platform(s)
ReleasePlayStation 4
  • JP: September 30, 2021
  • WW: July 5, 2024
PlayStation 5
  • JP: July 28, 2022
  • WW: July 5, 2024
Windows
  • CHN: July 28, 2022
  • JP: March 1, 2023
  • WW: July 5, 2024
Nintendo Switch
  • JP: February 15, 2024
  • WW: July 5, 2024
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak is a 2021 role-playing video game developed by Nihon Falcom. The game is a part of the Trails series, itself a part of the larger The Legend of Heroes franchise, and is the first game in the Calvard story arc. It marks the second half of the Trails series and is the first to be set in the Republic of Calvard. The game follows Van Arkride, a young man working at Arkride Solutions Office as a Spriggan, a bounty hunter and problem solver for hire, and Agnès Claudel, a high school student who joins Van to find eight magical devices known as Genesis.

Trails Through Daybreak was released in Japan for the PlayStation 4 in September 2021. A port for the PlayStation 5 was released in Japan and other Asian regions in July 2022, along with a Windows port in Chinese and Korean. A Japanese Windows port was released in March 2023. An English version by NIS America, including a Nintendo Switch port, was released in July 2024. A sequel, Trails Through Daybreak II, was released in 2022.