{"rewrite":{"id":"r_10371ad29d7dcd67da47883d","clusterId":"c_0b98bf550320cdfe6a5b71f9","slug":"serafini-s-brokenlore-ascend-sets-january-7-release-for-tower-climb-horror","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Serafini's BrokenLore: ASCEND Sets January 7 Release For Tower Climb Horror","summary":"Serafini Productions will release BrokenLore: ASCEND on January 7, 2027 for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with Japanese subtitles and voice audio. The first-person psychological horror game follows rooftoppers Ren and Yui, who sneak into Elysium Tower, a structure built on Tokyo Tower under official license, to film a climb. A rokurokubi stalks them inside.","whyItMatters":"The official Tokyo Tower license turns a real landmark into a climbing stage, and Serafini is pairing that physical height with a documented fear of irrelevance for a two-protagonist horror entry that connects to the wider BrokenLore series.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eElysium Tower is Tokyo Tower, rebuilt at scale under an official license and used as the climbing surface rather than the backdrop. Ren and Yui, the rooftoppers behind the channel SKYLIMIT, enter it at night for footage that outdoes their previous climbs.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rokurokubi that hunts them stretches its neck like a snake, so players hide on narrow footholds and move around its gaze. The developer treats the yokai as more than a pursuer: it gives shape to the pair\u0026#39;s fear of being forgotten. Serafini Productions is a Tokyo studio established in 2022, and this entry stands alone while carrying elements that connect to the series as a whole.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Ren and Yui are not urban explorers. They sneak into Elysium Tower specifically to film a climb, which makes every camera in BrokenLore: ASCEND useful and dangerous at once.","twitterPost":"BrokenLore: ASCEND gives Ren and Yui a reason to keep the camera up: they broke into Elysium Tower to film the climb.","threadsPost":"Elysium Tower is built on Tokyo Tower under official license, and Ren and Yui sneak in to film a climb. BrokenLore: ASCEND turns the camera itself into the horror problem: the thing documenting the ascent is the thing that keeps them inside the rokurokubi's reach.","newsletterBlurb":"Serafini Productions dated BrokenLore: ASCEND for January 7, 2027 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with Japanese subtitles and voice audio. The first-person horror game sends two rooftoppers up Elysium Tower, a Tokyo Tower rebuilt under official license, where a rokurokubi attacks. The yokai also carries the pair's fear of being forgotten.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261008-472328/\",\"title\":\"Horror Game 'BrokenLore: ASCEND,' in Which You Climb Tokyo Tower with Your Bare Hands, Launches January 7 Next Year; Tokyo Tower Recreated Under Official License, and for Some Reason You're Also Attacked by a Rokurokubi\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4692,"outputTokens":677,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791428832,"createdAt":"2026-10-08T03:01:48.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:07.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:07.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_0b98bf550320cdfe6a5b71f9","canonicalTitle":"“東京タワー”を素手で登るホラー『BrokenLore: ASCEND』来年1月7日配信へ。公式ライセンスで東京タワーを再現、なぜかろくろ首にも襲われる","representativeArticleId":"a_bbefbcd6a767b8921247660e","sourceCount":2,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":false,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"BrokenLore: ASCEND\"],\"studios\":[\"Serafini Productions\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-08T01:48:10.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-08T03:23:54.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-08T03:30:45.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/261008r","title":"東京タワーの外壁を登るホラーゲーム『BrokenLore: ASCEND』2027年1月7日に発売。恐怖の具現化「ろくろ首」も出現し、極限の緊張状態に"},{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261008-472328/","title":"“東京タワー”を素手で登るホラー『BrokenLore: ASCEND』来年1月7日配信へ。公式ライセンスで東京タワーを再現、なぜかろくろ首にも襲われる"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["BrokenLore: ASCEND"],"studios":["Serafini Productions"],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}