— an “occultic role-playing game” that is an officially authorized spinoff from the Serial Experiments Lain anime — on the Steam and itch.io services on April 30.
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Digital collectible anime studio Kasagi and Tokyo-based company Anique announced an alternate reality game (ARG) based on Serial Experiments Lain, Layer 3301: De-Cipher, in June 2023.
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Through this, the player can uncover “a new facet” of the character Lain Iwakura — and by extension, Serial Experiments Lain itself.
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The game’s staff emphasized this by posting a letter that is essentially a positive blurb from the anime’s scriptwriter Chiaki J. Konaka.