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Villion: Code Opening Movie, Gameplay Details Released

by Alex Fuller · February 19, 2026

Compile Heart has released the opening movie and new gameplay details for its upcoming “school life” RPG Villion: Code. The opening movie features the song “Rebirth Code”, performed by FRAM, while the new details cover parts of the game’s action combat system.

Villion: Code takes place in the near future where humanity is on the verge of extinction. The game takes place in the Adhvan Resilience Research Academy City, established to help humanity survive, where an incident sees monsters called GEMs attacking people and the city sealed within a bubble. The player-controlled protagonist is a 6th year student in the academy’s Life Sciences Department and forms a group called the ADHVAN REBS with his friends in order to find the culprit behind an incident.

The game sees players enter a dungeon-esque alternate dimension called the Sankhara Spacetime that is said to embody the “ten evil deeds” of humanity. The party members use Genome Arms, arms mutated into weapons. By equipping different skills, players can alter their combat style, with the protagonist able to swap Genome Arms during battle. During combat, players can consume party members’ skill gauges and activate their mutated skills, which sees the player controlling that character for a short period of time.

In addition, by hitting players with certain abilities when they are stunned, players can initiate a RUSH. This gives players a brief period where they can attack the enemy using party members’ mutated skills and the protagonist’s own RUSH skills without consuming the skill gauge. Players can be defeated by being knocked out of bounds; however, the game will give players a chance to recover by inputting button prompts. Having a stronger bond with their allies will make the button prompts easier. Finally, the game includes a gauge that builds up as players damage enemies. Filling this allows player to use a stun or an Attribute Unlock, which has different effects based on the character’s attribute, such as the protagonist’s ability to stop time for a short period.

Villion: Code is set to release for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan on June 25, 2026. The game’s staff includes project producer Kouji Okada (co-founder of Atlus, co-creator of Megami Tensei and Persona), scenario writer Tadashi Satomi (Persona: Revelations and Persona 2: Innocent Sin / Eternal Punishment), composer Tsukasa Masuko (Megami Tensei, Megami Tensei II, Shin Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei II, etc.), and character designer Ilya Kuvshinov (Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 and The Wonderland / Birthday Wonderland).