Tokyo Chronos

TOKYO CHRONOS is a VR visual novel set in a silent, enclosed version of Shibuya, Tokyo. You play as Kyosuke Sakurai, one of eight childhood friends gathered in the city. The story takes about 15 hours and includes multiple-choice decisions and more than one ending.

The mystery of Shibuya

In spring 2018, Kyosuke awakens in Shibuya, a city emptied of its usual crowds. As the group gathers at the famous scramble crossing, a blood-red message appears on an electronic billboard: “I am dead. Who killed me?” To escape, the group must identify and kill the person behind the strange phenomenon.

The story connects Shibuya to the idea of Chronos Worlds: parallel worlds enclosed by walls of mirrors. The theory arose after the 1988 disappearance of a 13-year-old boy and his mother near Balashikha, Moscow. A year later, a middle-aged man emerged from nearby woods claiming to be the missing boy. He said he and his mother had been trapped in a mirror-enclosed world for years, and that he returned to the first world after his mother died. A DNA test confirmed his identity, turning the case into the “Balashikha Incident.”

A scientist noted similarities between that case and other vanishings across history, including Agatha Christie's 11 missing days, the Kinross incident and the Mary Celeste, and proposed that those involved had been taken to a parallel world called Chronos World.

VR experiences

The game includes 360-degree opening and ending music videos, as well as close-range interactions with the heroines.