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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
AI:ソムニウム ファイル
AI: Somnium Files
One rainy night in November, a woman’s body is found at an abandoned theme park, mounted on a merry-go-round horse. She had been stabbed repeatedly, and her left eye was gouged out. Kaname Date of the Metropolitan Police Department arrives on the scene. He recognizes the woman. Read more →Collapse ↑
One rainy night in November, a woman’s body is found at an abandoned theme park, mounted on a merry-go-round horse. She had been stabbed repeatedly, and her left eye was gouged out. Kaname Date of the Metropolitan Police Department arrives on the scene. He recognizes the woman. Suddenly, he hears a noise from inside the merry-go-round. He breaks into the merry-go-round’s central column to find a young girl. And in her hands, she grips a bloody ice pick...
AI: The Somnium Files takes place in a technologically advanced Tokyo in the near future, and follows Kaname Date and his top-secret team within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, known as the Advanced Brain Investigation Squad (ABIS). ABIS is responsible for investigating crimes through the process of Psyncing, exploring the subconcious dreams of persons of interest via a machine connecting the two together in a dream state known as Somnium. ABIS agents doing such are known as Psyncers, and act as observers in subjects' dreams who are able to retrieve secrets and clues the subject may be hiding or may not be aware of. To ensure psyncers are not subject to adverse effects, their time in a subject's somnium is limited to a maximum of six minutes. Also featured in the universe is the topic of advanced Artificial Intelligence, based around a global cloud-based system known as the Wadjet System that acts as the core of AI.
[From (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI:_The_Somnium_Files) and Official Site]
- Developer
- Spike Chunsoft
- Length
- 27-33 hrs
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- Complete · Official · 2019-09-19AI: The Somnium Files - JP Regular Edition
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- Complete · Official · 2019-09-18AI: Somnium Files
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-17AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - Download Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-17AI: The Somnium Files - JP Download Edition
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- Trial · Official · Free · 2019-10-24AI: The Somnium Files - Demo
- Trial · Official · Free · 2019-10-24AI: The Somnium Files - Demo
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - NA Special Agent Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - EU Standard Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - EU Special Agent Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - Day One Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - EU Special Agent Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - EU Standard Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - NA Standard Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - NA Special Agent Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - NA Standard Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - Day One Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-19AI: The Somnium Files - JP Regular Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-19AI: The Somnium Files - JP Regular Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-19AI: The Somnium Files - EU Download Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-18AI: Somnium Files
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-17AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - Download Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-17AI: The Somnium Files - NA Download Edition
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- Trial · Official · Free · 2019-10-24AI: The Somnium Files - Demo
- Trial · Official · Free · 2019-10-24AI: The Somnium Files - Demo
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - NA Special Agent Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - EU Standard Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - NA Standard Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-24AI: The Somnium Files - Day One Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-19AI: The Somnium Files - JP Regular Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-19AI: The Somnium Files - JP Regular Edition
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-18AI: Somnium Files
- Complete · Official · 2019-09-17AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - Download Edition
03The book
The text.
15Quick facts
- Developer
- Spike Chunsoft
- Publisher
- -
- Original JP
- Sep 17, 2019
- English release
- -
- Length
- 27-33 hrs
- Rating
- -
- Also known as
- AITSF · AI1
13Synopsis
One rainy night in November, a woman’s body is found at an abandoned theme park, mounted on a merry-go-round horse. She had been stabbed repeatedly, and her left eye was gouged out. Kaname Date of the Metropolitan Police Department arrives on the scene. He recognizes the woman. Suddenly, he hears a noise from inside the merry-go-round. He breaks into the merry-go-round’s central column to find a young girl. And in her hands, she grips a bloody ice pick...
AI: The Somnium Files takes place in a technologically advanced Tokyo in the near future, and follows Kaname Date and his top-secret team within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, known as the Advanced Brain Investigation Squad (ABIS). ABIS is responsible for investigating crimes through the process of Psyncing, exploring the subconcious dreams of persons of interest via a machine connecting the two together in a dream state known as Somnium. ABIS agents doing such are known as Psyncers, and act as observers in subjects' dreams who are able to retrieve secrets and clues the subject may be hiding or may not be aware of. To ensure psyncers are not subject to adverse effects, their time in a subject's somnium is limited to a maximum of six minutes. Also featured in the universe is the topic of advanced Artificial Intelligence, based around a global cloud-based system known as the Wadjet System that acts as the core of AI.
[From (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI:_The_Somnium_Files) and Official Site]
14Cultural moment · release cadence
- 2019
Japanese release
Original edition, shipped by the developer.
18Content advisory
- none
Sexual content
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- none
Violence
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- none
Age rating
Not rated.
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