Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced during a Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary Event held in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday.
A trailer featuring many of the games shown at the event ended with a reveal for the newest entry in the Disney crossover RPG series.
The debut trailer features Sora running through a city before a title card appears. Donald and Goofy also appear. Currently, no release window or platforms have been specified.
You can watch the trailer via the embed below:
The trailer opens with the line: “If this isn’t the ending you desired- if it brings you despair- then leave this world for another” before showing what appears to be a Japanese city.
A dark entity appears in the sky before the trailer cuts to an idyllic forest setting. The trailer then shows Sora on a sofa before it is revealed that the trailer takes place in Quadratum, the world introduced in KH3.
A brief clip of what appears to be gameplay is then shown, with Sora running up buildings and flying through skyscrapers. The trailer ends with Donald Duck and Goofy looking for someone. “Magic in the making” appears on screen as the trailer fades to black.
It’s currently unclear which platforms Kingdom Hearts 4 will release on. During the same event, Square Enix announced mobile spin-off Kingdom Hearts Missing Link, which it said will appear in specific regions this year via a beta.
The Kingdom Hearts series of role-playing games, which were created through a collaboration between Square Enix and Disney, debuted on PS2 in March 2002.
The series has since appeared on several platforms and has shipped over 33 million units, according to publisher Square Enix.
The most recent series entry, 2019’s Kingdom Hearts III, introduced worlds based on Pixar films for the first time,
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