Kodansha announced that it has established the Fairy Tail Indie Game Guild project. It will use this guild to help independent game creators release games themed after Hiro Mashima's manga series of the same title.

The company also revealed the first two games that will be part of the project. It will release both titles on PC via Steam worldwide in seven languages: Japanese, English, French, Korean, Thai, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.

Fairy Tail: Dungeons will be the first game in this project. It will feature a rogue-lite gameplay system where the player will collect magic cards based on attacks from the series' characters and construct a deck with them for the chosen character to fight monsters inside the dungeon. This game will be available on August 27, 2024 in Japan, South Korea, Eastern Australia, and New Zealand, or August 26, 2024 for the rest of the world.

The second game in the project will be Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc. As the title suggests, this game will feature casual beach volleyball matches between Fairy Tail characters with additional special magic effects. Kodansha will release this game simultaneously worldwide on September 16 or 17, 2024, depending on the time zone.

The Fairy Tail series already has an official RPG for PC and consoles developed by Koei Tecmo's Gust, and the same studio is working on its sequel that will appear in Winter 2024. The new indie titles will further complement the lineup of games based on the franchise. In the Japanese press release, Kadokawa added that it will release Fairy Tail: Birth of Magic, a versus game with original magic creation system, as the third indie title.

Fairy Tail: Dungeons will appear first on August 26 or 27, 2024, and Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc will follow on September 16 or 17, 2024. Both Fairy Tail indie games will be available worldwide digitally on PC via Steam.

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Back in 2021, Fairy Tail manga author Hiro Mashima put 10 million yen toward funding an indie game contest based on the series. Kodansha tossed in an additional five million yen, and now the first two titles in the project have been revealed.

It all started when Mashima happened upon the Kodansha Game Creators Lab on YouTube a few years ago. Shortly after a personal visit, Mashima proposed the Fairy Tail indie game contest, with the aforementioned 10 million yen (about US$69,796.50) coming directly out of his pocket. The main stipulations were that the games should be developed within a year and released on platforms like Steam, iOS, and Android. 

Flash forward to August 2024 and the FAIRY TAIL INDIE GAME GUILD has officially been unveiled. You can see a preview of the first two titles—Fairy Tail: Dungeons and Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc—below.

Fairy Tail: Dungeons is a deck-building roguelite from developer ginolabo that's out via Steam on August 26, 2024. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the absurdly colorful Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc, which hits Steam on September 16 from developers tiny cactus studio, MASUDATARO, and veryOK. 

Per the proposal, Kodansha will distribute the games and profits will be split between them and the developers. As is evidenced by the titles alone, these are very different games, and that was the aim of the project all along. Dungeons has you forming a party of three—including characters like Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza, and Wendy—to venture into the Labyrinth Depths. Beach Volleyball Havoc is, well, just look at it! Up to four people can dive into magic-fueled two-on-two matches locally or through Steam Remote Play. 

Like many manga authors, Hiro Mashima has been vocal about his unabashed love for video games. He previously said he doesn't care what the genre is or how big the games are. He doesn't even care if the devs know Fairy Tail, though he would like them to read it if they win (via Crunchyroll News). He literally put his money where his mouth is with this one, and it'll be cool to see something new come out of the world of manga and anime-inspired games. 

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