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Visual Arts/Key Reveals Loopers Plus, Augment Protocol Visual Novels' Release Date

Visual Arts/Key announced last Friday that it will release its Loopers Plus visual novel on PC on October 24, and its Augment Protocol (Kōsai Toshi) visual novel on November 28.

Visual Arts/Key revealed both visual novels in December 2023.

Loopers Plus is an upgraded version of the May 2021 game with bonus stories, illustrations, music, and more. It also features a new story.

Visual Arts/Key previously described the story of Loopers:

Let's set out to find a real treasure. Tyler is a high school student who is obsessed with geocaching, a GPS-based treasure hunting game. One day during summer vacation, Tyler and his friends get drawn into a mysterious incident while out treasure-hunting. The real and imagined become interconnected. Thoughts are thrown into chaos. Tomorrow becomes today. Swallowed up by a time vortex, they are trapped in a never-ending time loop, repeating "today" again and again.

Then they meet other "loopers." Simon, the leader, and the mysterious girl Mia. If they join forces, will they be able to break out from this eternal prison...?

The game was ported to the Nintendo Switch in June 2022.

The story for Augment Protocol takes place in a future where people have augmented their eyes to see an augmented reality (AR). An AR network called "Adonis" monitors the "0-zero ward," making it the safest city to live in. Shion Kurauki works as a first-class investigator for the network when he gets involved with a conspiracy regarding "The case of the Swamp man" and is transferred to the OCTA Otaku branch. There he somehow reunites with his first love, Moka Momoka, who died when he was a child. She has become an electronic ghost, existing only in AR.

Source: Visual Arts/Key's X/Twitter account (link 2), 4Gamer.net (Igarashi)