Following the cancellation of Kingdom Hearts Lacking Hyperlink, the workforce behind the critically acclaimed sequence has taken to X (previously Twitter) to share new photographs of the subsequent mainline entry within the franchise: Kingdom Hearts IV. Offered as a collage and with none context, it is onerous to interpret an excessive amount of from the photographs. Nonetheless, the forth picture within the set appears to point that none aside from King Mickey himself will likely be a playable character within the recreation’s subsequent chapter.
To our Kingdom Hearts group,
We’re at present working onerous on Kingdom Hearts IV and can proceed pouring ourselves into the sport’s growth. We’re devoted to creating this an expertise that lives as much as your expectations! [1/2] pic.twitter.com/4lbg6l2ErZ— KINGDOM HEARTS (@KINGDOMHEARTS) Might 15, 2025
Apart from the image our chandelier-swinging monarch, the oldsters at Sq. Enix did not give us a lot to mull over with these photographs. That stated, the sheer look of the game–particularly in photographs 4, six, and seven–has left us much more desperate to get our fingers on it.
Kingdom Hearts IV doesn’t at present have a launch window, although Sq. Enix has assured followers that it’s “at present working onerous” on the title. Following Lacking Hyperlink’s cancellation, it’s now the subsequent Kingdom Hearts title scheduled to launch.
Previous to its cancelation, Lacking Hyperlink was meant to assist ease the ready interval between 2019’s Kingdom Hearts III and the subsequent chapter of Sora’s story. The cellular recreation was described as a “GPS-based motion RPG,” and was stated to hook up with the occasions of Kingdom Hearts IV. As for why Sq. Enix cancelled the undertaking, the workforce provided the next clarification:
“Though we labored onerous on creating and adjusting the sport within the hope that it might be loved by plenty of gamers, we decided that it might be troublesome for us to supply a service that gamers would discover passable over an extended time frame, main us to the choice to cancel growth.”
With Summer time Recreation Fest 2025 simply across the nook, here is hoping we hear a bit extra about what the Kingdom Hearts workforce has cooking quickly.
