Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers 2 Announced for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC

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Last week Atlus posted a mysterious teaser relating to the Shin Megami Tensei franchise, its long-running JRPG series that received its latest entry in 2021. Over the course of its 35-year history the Shin Megami Tensei series has received many spin-offs that have gone on to become their own beloved series' such as Persona and Devil Survivor, and fans quickly discovered that this countdown teaser was related to Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner — Soul Hackers. Now it has been revealed that the announcement is none other than Soul Hacker 2, a follow-up to the 25-year-old Sega Saturn game coming later this year.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner — Soul Hackers (Also simply known as Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers) is the second entry in the Devil Summoner spin-off series of the mainline Shin Megami Tensei franchise. The game is a dungeon-crawling turn-based RPG that features many elements later found in the Persona Q spin-off series and features a contemporary detective story following a group of hackers called Spookies set in a cyberpunk Japanese harbor city. The game originally released in Japan on Sega Saturn in 1997 though it wouldn't receive an English release until 2013, when the game was remade for Nintendo 3DS.

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Out of seemingly nowhere, Atlus announced today that the oft-forgotten Shin Megami Tensei spin-off (itself an entry in the Devil Summoner subseries) would be receiving a sequel in the form of Soul Hackers 2, launching this August for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Like the Persona series before it, Soul Hackers 2 has the distinction of dropping the "Shin Megami Tensei" and "Devil Summoner" titles