{"id":118579,"date":"2025-04-11T09:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=118579"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:27:36","slug":"rain98-is-an-upcoming-psycho-thriller-romance-set-in-90s-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/04\/11\/rain98-is-an-upcoming-psycho-thriller-romance-set-in-90s-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain98 Is An Upcoming &#8220;psycho-thriller romance&#8221; Set in 90s Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Game developer and publisher <strong>C#4R4CT3R<\/strong> is releasing <em>Rain98<\/em>, a &#8220;lo-fi psycho-thriller romance adventure set in &#8217;90s Tokyo,&#8221; on Steam in Q3 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2025\/04\/lo-fi-psycho-thriller-romance-adventure-game-rain98-announced-for-pc?fbclid=IwY2xjawJmGkRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHskPhenfsYEXoF8hL1995pG5nwSKWv3T0L9Mhy0Rp9voXnqCgF9-qjsKz5BH_aem_P1nPNN_a3azsEdp3cumsRg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gematsu<\/a> has uploaded a trailer that previews the game&#8217;s vibe, gameplay, and main heroine.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">That heroine is Reina Amehara (<strong>Rio Tsuchiya<\/strong>), who&#8217;s described as &#8220;a girl with a mysterious and somewhat dangerous charm to her.&#8221; She joins you in an apartment room and &#8220;Together, you decide you have to perform a strange ritual&#8230; to save the world from destruction.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rain98 - Announce Teaser Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/whI5ENvcj7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Adding to the mystery, <em>Rain98<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3498720\/Rain98\/?curator_clanid=4777282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam page<\/a> says that you&#8217;ll have keep Reina appeased to avoid &#8220;terrible, terrible things happening,&#8221; and that your time with your mysterious companion will be &#8220;sweet, bitter, somewhat scary, and always strange.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Also mentioned are minigames, trips outside the apartment, lo-fi music, and an experience that will have you questioning the game&#8217;s reality. &#8220;Things start feeling off, your memories become foggy, and Reina still holds onto a secret. Is what you see real? Is it your mind playing tricks on you? Tokyo&#8217;s rain washes the truth away,&#8221; teases the description.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The game&#8217;s short description adds to the intrigue: &#8220;Tokyo, 1998. A rain that never ends and a girl who wants everything to end. Two lonely youths will change the world with their choices.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Rain98&nbsp;<\/em>will include support for 16 languages, among them English, Simplified Chinese, and Korean.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Gematsu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game developer and publisher C#4R4CT3R is releasing Rain98, a &#8220;lo-fi psycho-thriller romance adventure set in &#8217;90s Tokyo,&#8221; on Steam in Q3 2025. Gematsu has uploaded a trailer that previews the game&#8217;s vibe, gameplay, and main heroine. That heroine is Reina Amehara (Rio Tsuchiya), who&#8217;s described as &#8220;a girl with a mysterious and somewhat dangerous charm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":118581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11166,553,11165],"class_list":["post-118579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-c4r4ct3r","tag-games","tag-rain98"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Rain98-trailer-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-uQz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157061,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579\/revisions\/157061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}