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Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files creator Kotaro Uchikoshi has announced the establishment of
Drawing on Uchikoshi’s experience and creative vision, CRASH KEYS is moving forward with new original projects, aiming to craft “deeply moving and memorable experiences for players worldwide.”
To advance its projects and build a business foundation, CRASH KEYS is currently seeking investment partners who share the studio’s vision and want to help bring its creative ambitions to life. It encourages interested companies and investors to inquire about its business strategy, project concepts, and investment opportunities.
The studio’s tagline is, “Some locks can only be opened with broken keys. All creation begins with destruction. Crash your rusty old keys. Beyond the door lies a world yet unseen. We CRASH KEYS. Shattering conventions to unlock the unknown.”
In a message on Twitter, Uchikoshi explained that the studio itself was actually set up in March 2025, and that “the game our whole team had poured our hearts and souls into for about a year and a half was suddenly canceled,” so he decided to announce his new studio today instead of in 2027, as originally planned, in hopes of finding new investors. Here is his message in full:
Hi everyone, how’s it going? Honestly, I’m not doing well at all… Why, you ask…? Because the game our whole team had poured our hearts and souls into for about a year and a half was suddenly canceled…!! I mean, I lost my job overnight. Talk about a bolt from the blue…
So I decided to make an announcement now. To see if anyone might be interested in working with us or investing in our projects. And here’s the announcement.
Actually, I started a company back in March of last year. It’s a game studio specializing in video game design, direction, and narrative writing. (And… just between us, it’s also a secret organization dedicated to protecting world peace.)
The name is… “CRASH KEYS”!!
My original plan was to reveal CRASH KEYS when we announced our new game. That was supposed to happen next year… in 2027. But then came that whole “bolt from the blue” incident… So I ended up having to move things up and go public with it today instead.
With that in mind, I would like to humbly ask you all for a favor… Please give us some work!! At this rate, our company might literally CRASH into a million pieces. My team and I may be forced to survive on nothing but cicada shells collected from a run-down park. So please, help us!! You’re our only hope!!
For work requests, investment proposals, words of encouragement, or invitations to Law of Attraction seminars, we would be very grateful if you could contact us using the “CONTACT” form on our official website.
Any support you could offer would mean the world to us. We sincerely look forward to hearing from you!
CRASH KEYS’ founding members include:
Kotaro Uchikoshi (CEO and Deadass Underrated Director)
A delightfully offbeat game designer known for unconventional adventure titles such as Ever17, the Zero Escape series, and the AI: The Somnium Files series. His inventive narratives combine intricate branching structures, mind-bending twists, science-fiction and philosophical themes, and an almost aristocratic approach to dirty jokes, earning him acclaim worldwide.
One of his signature works, 999: Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors, won IGN’s “Best here.
