Akatori Wiki

What the game is

A staff, a sealed bird, the Amber Storms

Akatori casts you as Mako, a teenage girl raised in the Firebird Temple, who sets out to save the game's worlds from the Amber Storms — a corrupting phenomenon that twists people and nature into hostile "amberized" forms while also producing the valuable amber crystals that give the game its name. A mysterious red bird sealed inside her staff travels with her; the staff doubles as a melee weapon, a ranged throw, and a traversal tool across five hand-crafted, pixel-art-over-3D locations.

Contrast Games built combat around fast, responsive movement and multi-form attacks, layered over more than twenty regular enemy types and several unique bosses spread across those five locations. An adaptive soundtrack shifts automatically between calm exploration and combat, and the game ships with full controller support, including DualSense-specific features on Sony's pad. Akatori carries age ratings of 10+ from Brazil's DEJUS, a Steam Germany-style 12+, and 13+ from Indonesia's IGRS, all citing violence, and its Steam store page quotes press coverage from Kotaku ("Gorgeous pixel art, side-scrolling platforming, tight combat?") and PC Gamer ("I'm a fan of Akatori's look.").

The full release is published by Games Harbor and Esprit Games and supports interface and subtitle text in English, Russian, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Japanese. It launched for Windows PC on Steam on 5 August 2026, two days before this page's research pass, with PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One versions following on 12 August 2026 and a Nintendo Switch 2 release planned for 2027. A separate, much smaller product — the free Akatori: Chapter One prologue demo — was released back in April 2024 by a different developer/publisher pair, and is covered on its own page rather than folded into these full-release facts.

Read the full combat & traversal breakdown, browse the Amber Storms setting and official Akatori Tales, or jump straight to the 31-achievement list with live global unlock percentages.