Playism announced on the latest Nintendo Indie World Showcase thatGnosiawill be localized in English in early 2021. On Switch. Inspired fromLoup-Garouor theWerewolfgame,Gnosiafeatures colorful characters on a spaceship. However, one or more of these characters is Gnosia. A life form which take the appearance of others and eliminates humanoid beings. First, each night on the spaceship, the Gnosia will erase one of the characters. Secondly, the remaining characters, the player included, will try to find the Gnosia. By voting for who’s the most suspicious person. A concept everyone knows nowadays withAmong Us. A cold sleep system is used on the character with the most votes. The days goes on until the Gnosia kills everyone or until it’s put in cold sleep.Moreover, once you’re done with your first run, the gameGnosialoops over and over with new possibilities, characters, and scenarios. Each run will take between 5 to 15 minutes, and it’s up to you to keep going and reach out to the truth.A single run can contain multiple Gnosia characters. Moreover, the Gnosia can be the player themselves. In that case, they need to kill everyone without being found out. At some point you are also able to customize your run, picking beforehand the numbers of Gnosia, the characters, and their roles.
Why compare Gnosia toDisco Elysium?
We thoroughly explained the game systems ofGnosiain a previous story.Be sure to check it out. In particular,Gnosiais an RPG and an Adventure game (what we call Visual Novels outside Japan). When starting the game, players can customize their characters, attributing points in stats such as Charisma and Stealth. The player can earn levels to increase their stats to learn new skills usable during conversations. Some of the actions avalaible such as “lying” have a success rate depending on your stats. you may do such as lying will succeed or fail depending on your stats. Moreover, the NPCs can use Skills as well. Lastly, the playerâs stats and level carry over in each loop.
As such, we’ve been comparingGnosiatoDisco Elysium, also first released in 2019. In 2019,Disco Elysiumwas critically acclaimed worldwide. Meanwhile, multiple Japanese outlets praisedGnosiatoo.
The announcement was accompanied with a video message from Toru Kawakatsu, producer and director ofGnosiaat indie developer Petit Depotto. Toru Kawakatsu explained:“Gnosiais an experience only realizable with the medium of video games.” I personally couldn’t agree more, and I could say the same for another recently localized Japanese game,13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
GnosiaEnglish Switch Release Reveal Trailer
Gnosiawas first released exclusively on PlayStation Vita in Japan on June 15, 2025. On June 21, 2025, a Switch port was released.
Toru Kawakatsu previously explained they released the game on Vita only on purpose for it to gain a reputation. This is what allowed it to be noticed by Nintendo and be featured in the Japanese version of the March 26, 2020Nintendo Direct Mini.Toru Kawakatsu later told Bloomberg journalist Takashi Mochizuki thatGnosiawould be localizedif the demand was strong enough.Gnosiais an exceptional game we’ve been covering a lot on DualShockers, and it’s incredible to see it get a localization. Personally speaking, I can’t wait to try the game out in English.
