1999TOKOYO Building is out on Steam: Kodansha’s horror adventure, price, 20% off until November 23, free first-chapter demo, no French

Kodansha Game Lab released 1999TOKOYO Building on PC via Steam on November 10, 2026 (Japan time). It is a horror adventure and visual novel developed by TOKOYO FUDOSAN (常夜不動産), a three-person team making its debut, and published by Kodansha. A 20% launch discount runs until November 23, and the whole first chapter is playable for free in a demo.

The story takes place in December 1999 in the TOKOYO Building, a run-down indoor amusement park surrounded by a massive water tank and rumored to make people disappear. You play Akira, a boy who has lost his memory: caught breaking in by the owner, Yano, he ends up working there as a live-in employee. His coworkers are strange and dangerous, and the goal is to uncover their “secrets” by picking the locks of their rooms, build rapport with them using what you find, and find a way out.

The game alternates point-and-click exploration of 360° backgrounds in low-poly 3D with visual novel dialogue scenes where the characters are animated in Live2D. The Steam page warns that it contains occasional violence, frightening scenes and depictions of suicide, and offers a “Hide Graphic Content” option in the settings.

Regular price on Steam France: €9.69; with the 20% launch offer: €7.75, until November 23 according to Steam (checked November 10, 2026). The Japanese price is ¥1,420, according to Kodansha. The original soundtrack by Yasuhiro Nakashima is sold separately on Steam, with a bundle discount.

Free demo: the entire first chapter, as in the full game (about two hours according to Gematsu). Kodansha also offers a roughly 10-minute browser demo on its Creators Lab site.

Steam lists English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese only. There is no French version, so French-speaking players will need to play in English.

Minimum: Windows 10 64-bit, Intel Core i3, 4 GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 3 GB of storage.

Recommended: Windows 11 64-bit, Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, 5 GB of storage.

No console version has been announced. Kodansha says an interview video with the three developers will be posted on YouTube on November 30.

Sources: 1999TOKOYO Building Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/4099810/ (checked November 10, 2026); Kodansha press release on PR TIMES, November 10, 2026 (Japanese) https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000009138.000001719.html ; Kodansha Game Lab press release on Games Press, November 10, 2026 https://www.gamespress.com/NEO-NOSTALGIC-HORROR-ADVENTURE-GAME-1999TOKOYO-BUILDING-NOW-AVAILABLE- ; free demo on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/5005110/ ; Gematsu, October 13, 2026 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/1999-tokoyo-building-launches-november-10 . Image: official 1999TOKOYO Building screenshot from Steam, © TOKOYO FUDOSAN / Kodansha.