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Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War

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Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War is a 2018 mobile action RPG from GameSamba, officially licensed through Studio Pierrot. Players form squads of ghouls, hybrids, or CCG investigators and fight in real-time 3D battles across a darker Tokyo.

Genre: Action RPG
Platform: Mobile (Android, iOS)
Developer: GameSamba
Publisher: GameSamba
Release Year: 2018
North America Release Date: 2018-02-11
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Gameplay

Combat runs in real time and renders in full 3D rather than turn-based menus, aiming for a console-like feel on phones. Players draft a party from a roster of more than fifty ghouls, hybrids, and investigators and push through story stages and boss fights. Later updates layer in competitive modes, including a standard PVP arena and a MOBA-inspired mode with 1v1, 3v3, and 5v5 matches.
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Premise

Dark War places players in a bleaker version of the metropolitan Tokyo from Sui Ishida's manga and its anime adaptation, where ghouls and the Commission of Counter Ghoul remain locked in conflict. The game builds its own stages and events around that setting rather than retelling a single arc.
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Release

GameSamba soft-launches Dark War in Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia on January 3, 2018, followed by Canada on February 6 and the US on February 11, ahead of a wider global rollout by May 2018. The free-to-play title stays live until Bandai Namco and GameSamba shut it down in 2021.
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