Persona5: The Phantom X Brings the Phantom Thieves to PC and Mobile Devices Next Month

Atlus has revealed its free-to-play spinoff, Persona5: The Phantom X, is coming to PC and mobile devices June 26, 2025.

The Persona bid developer announced a merchandise day for its latest Persona 5 spinoff with an hour-long breakdown video today. It’s being developed arsenic portion of a collaboration betwixt Atlus, Sega, and Perfect World and reintroduces players to the Phantom Thieves on with caller faces, too.

Japanese and English versions of Persona5: The Phantom X volition motorboat simultaneously adjacent month, but this scaled-down communicative from the Persona 5 beingness isn’t wholly new. It was announced successful 2023 and primitively launched successful China successful 2024. The live-service title's developers person continued to robust retired the kinks since then, and now, it’s yet acceptable to scope caller audiences.

“Encompassed successful the unsocial turn-based RPG gameplay and mounting of Persona 5, players volition pb a treble beingness arsenic a pupil and a Phantom Thief with a brand-new protagonist and set of Phantom Thieves,” an authoritative statement from Atlus says. “During the day, players volition physique up beingness acquisition arsenic a pupil and prosecute successful assorted activities specified arsenic hanging retired with your friends and portion clip jobs, portion astatine night, they volition sneak into the cognitive dungeons to bargain Treasures and alteration the twisted desires of corrupt adults!”

If you’re a Persona 5 fan, you’ll beryllium blessed to cognize The Phantom X inactive features that game’s stylish turn-based gameplay. Players tin besides look guardant to exploring jobs and extracurricular activities portion enjoying caller mini-games unsocial to this circumstantial entry. Atlus wants you to cognize this is simply a tried-and-true Persona experience, arsenic it confirms its engagement successful penning and supervising immoderate of the archetypal broadside stories the crippled offers.

Persona5: The Phantom X volition beryllium viewed done the eyes of an wholly caller protagonist arsenic good arsenic a caller postulation of Phantom Thieves, but Joker and different archetypal Phantom Thieves members volition amusement up via peculiar contracts, too. Players volition besides beryllium escaped to instrumentality vantage of caller modes, including a PvE mode called The Velvet Trials arsenic good arsenic caller Mementos and a caller Guild feature.

“However, 1 regret we person is that we had to instrumentality this agelong to beryllium capable to denote a Western release,” Sega's Jun Matsunaga said during the video presentation, “and we’re precise atrocious to our Western fans for keeping them successful the acheronian for truthful long. As we know, this crippled was primitively developed by Perfect World successful China. When we archetypal started to program for a planetary release, for a bid similar Persona that is precise fashionable successful the West, we wanted to marque definite that for a Western release, everything successful the crippled from the mounting to the code of communicative matched the modular Western fans had for a Persona game.”

Persona 5 launched each the mode backmost successful 2016 and has received a plethora of spinoffs since. These see crossovers with different titles specified arsenic Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, arsenic good arsenic standalone experiences, specified arsenic Persona 5 Strikers, Persona 5 Tactica, and Persona 5: Dancing successful Starlight. We've heard small astir what a imaginable Persona 6 mightiness entail, but you tin inactive work up connected everything we cognize astir it here.

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