Shin-chan: Shiro and the Coal Town Will Appear in October

Neos revealed that it will release Shin-chan: Shiro and the Coal Town for Nintendo Switch and PC in the West on October 24, 2024. The latter will be available on Steam, and the company has also set up a webpage for the game on the platform.

Shiro and the Coal Town is an adventure game where the player will control Shinnosuke “Shin-chan” Nohara as he goes back and forth between a real-world rural village and a mysterious steampunk-themed Coal Town. The game will also have many mini-games ranging from fishing in the village to trolley races in the Coal Town.

The Switch version of the game will support subtitles in Japanese, English, Spanish, and German with Japanese voiceovers. The PC release will add more subtitle and voiceover language options in Chinese, Cantonese, and Korean.

Neos first revealed the game at the Japanese version of the September 2023 Nintendo Direct with the Japanese title Crayon Shin-chan: Sumi no Machi to Shiro. The new English title is an almost direct translation of the original Japanese title.

The company released Shiro and the Coal Town first in Japan on the Switch on February 22, 2024. It later released the game in East Asia on May 2, 2024. Neos also discovered that the game’s sales performance stayed in first place in South Korean rankings and second place in Taiwan in the first two weeks after release.

Shin-chan: Shiro and the Coal Town will be available digitally for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on October 24, 2024.