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Square Enix Reveals New Screenshots for Kingdom Hearts IV Game

Square Enix revealed several new screenshots on Thursday for its Kingdom Hearts IV role-playing game. One of the screenshots appears to show Mickey Mouse as a playable character.

The screenshots are accompanied by a statement from Square Enix:

To our Kingdom Hearts community,

We're currently working hard on Kingdom Hearts IV and will continue pouring ourselves into the game's development. We're dedicated to making this an experience that lives up to your expectations!

We've seen how excited you are, and we are truly grateful from the bottom of our hearts. We are equally excited and can't wait to share more about Kingdom Hearts IV when the time is right. Until then, we appreciate your patience.

Thank you for your continued support.

Square Enix had announced on Wednesday development on its Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link smartphone game has been canceled. In the announcement, the development team assured fans Kingdom Hearts IV was still in development.

Square Enix revealed the Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link and Kingdom Hearts IV games in April 2022, but had not revealed any more information about Kingdom Hearts IV since then.

Square Enix most recently launched the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind games for Nintendo Switch via cloud in February 2023. Square Enix then released the same games on PC via Steam in June 2024.

Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts Union χ [Cross] and Kingdom Hearts Dark Road smartphone games were both originally supposed to end service in May 2021, but Kingdom Hearts Union χ [Cross] released its final story in June 2021 instead and both games switched to offline mode in the same month. Both games are available in one app.

Square Enix released the Kingdom Hearts III game in January 2019 in Japan and the West for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game had shipped more than 5 million copies worldwide, including digital sales, as of February 2019, and is the fastest-selling title in the history of the franchise. The "Re Mind" DLC launched in January 2020.

Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, the first rhythm action game in the franchise, launched for the Switch, PS4, and Xbox One in the West and in Japan in November 2020, and was previously the only title in the series available for the Switch.

The franchise also includes manga and light novel adaptations of the games. Yen Press released some of these in English.

Source: Kingdom Hearts franchise's X/Twitter account