Loading...
Showa American Story's first public playable build ran at gamescom 2026 in Cologne, offering four selectable slices of Chapters 3 and 4 in half-hour sessions.
Showa American Story went from a two-year concept phase starting in 2016 to a 2022 reveal, a long public silence, a slipped release window, and a return at gamescom 2026 with its first playable build.
NEKCOM Entertainment is the Wuhan studio behind Showa American Story, founded in 2011 and led by creative director Xiangyu Luo, who writes almost every element of the game that carries its style.
Showa American Story is scored with licensed Japanese pop recordings from the 1980s and early 1990s, chosen from the creative director's own childhood listening and used in the game as diegetic period music.
