Don’t sleep on Infinity Nikki. It could be 2024’s biggest video game

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If you thought you knew every major game coming for the rest of 2024, think again. On Wednesday night, Infold Games announced that Infinity Nikki will launch on December 5 for PlayStation 5, PC, and mobile. If you’ve never heard of it before, you’re about to in a very big way.

The upcoming free-to-play game is the fifth entry in the mega-popular Nikki series. It takes what was once a mobile dress-up gacha game and turns it into a full open-world console game with shades of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild peppered in. At first glance, you may be tempted to write it off as niche, but that would be a tactical error.Infinity Nikki will launch at the perfect time, landing in the cross section of multiple trends that have defined 2024. If all goes well for Infold Games, it could smash records. If you’re still a little confused as to why, here are all of the reasons that Infinity Nikki could be a sensation.

The Nikki series is enormous

If you’ve never heard of the Nikki series before, you’ve been sleeping on a giant. Developed by Papergames, Nikki games are traditionally free-to-play “dress up” games that are all about collecting outfits. They also contain oddly deep lore, something that’s helped the series earn a massive, dedicated fan base over the years. How big is it? The series’ most recent title, Shining Nikki, has over 100 million downloads worldwide. Infinity Nikki is already poised to rise to similar success. Even before its release date announcement, it already had 30 million preregistrations. Even if this was just your average Nikki sequel, it would be a big deal — but it’s much more than that.

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