{"rewrite":{"id":"r_09664d0823a842a58b08ac4c","clusterId":"c_c326041f5cf6487197353425","slug":"shadowgate-inspired-survival-craft-game-gate-to-die-gets-demo-on-may-25","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Shadowgate-Inspired Survival Craft Game Gate to Die Gets Demo on May 25","summary":"The Matenrou Project, developer of Daihitsuyo World Word, will release a demo for its survival craft adventure game Gate to Die on May 25, 2026. The game is explicitly inspired by the Famicom version of Shadowgate, known for its humor and death scenes, and combines that style with survival crafting mechanics.","whyItMatters":"Gate to Die adapts Shadowgate's text-adventure puzzle-and-death formula into a survival craft genre, a hybrid that has not been widely attempted since the Famicom original.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe Matenrou Project announced on its X account that a demo for Gate to Die will be distributed via BOOTH on May 25, 2026. The game is a survival craft adventure that the developer describes as being like the Famicom version of Shadowgate, a title famous for its translation-era humor and plentiful death scenes. How a Shadowgate-style adventure game integrates survival crafting is the question the demo is meant to answer. The developer also said it reproduces the eerie atmosphere of the original. Let's play videos and live streams are welcome as long as the game URL and X account URL are included in the description.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Gate to Die, a survival craft adventure inspired by the Famicom Shadowgate, gets a demo on May 25. The Matenrou Project is behind it.","twitterPost":"Gate to Die, a survival craft adventure inspired by the Famicom Shadowgate, gets a demo on May 25. The Matenrou Project is behind it.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"The Matenrou Project will release a demo for Gate to Die on May 25. The game combines survival crafting with the puzzle-and-death style of the Famicom Shadowgate.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/05/21/166733.html\",\"title\":\"\\\"My Life Is Over!\\\" Famicom 'Shadowgate'-Like Survival Craft ADV 'Gate to Die' Demo to Release on May 25\"}]","lintFlagsJson":"[]","lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":3270,"outputTokens":498,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1779826585,"createdAt":"2026-05-21T11:48:05.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-05-21T12:01:19.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-21T12:01:19.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_c326041f5cf6487197353425","canonicalTitle":"「わたしの じんせいは これで おわってしまった！」FC版『シャドウゲイト』ライクなサバイバルクラフトADV『ゲイトトゥダイ』5月25日に体験版公開 | Game*Spark - 国内・海外ゲーム情報サイト","representativeArticleId":"a_6fb4553efb6b5a4277bf89c3","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-21T09:45:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-05-21T09:45:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-21T12:01:19.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/05/21/166733.html","title":"「わたしの じんせいは これで おわってしまった！」FC版『シャドウゲイト』ライクなサバイバルクラフトADV『ゲイトトゥダイ』5月25日に体験版公開 | Game*Spark - 国内・海外ゲーム情報サイト"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["The Matenrou Project will release a demo for Gate to Die on May 25, 2026.","The demo will be distributed via BOOTH.","Gate to Die is a survival craft adventure game inspired by the Famicom version of Shadowgate.","The developer describes the game as reproducing the eerie atmosphere of the original Shadowgate.","Let's play videos and live streams of the demo are allowed if they include the game URL and the developer's X account URL."]}