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It looks like Idea Factory International might be behind the first Switch otome game of 2026, as it shared an updated release date for Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights. Following a delay out of 2025, it will now debut on January 13, 2026.
However, that release date doesn’t cover every version. In the US and Canada, Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights will be available both digitally and physically on January 13, 2026. In Europe, there’s a slight delay. While it will be on the eShop on that date, the physical copies won’t show up until two weeks later on January 27, 2026.
As a reminder, Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights is a visual novel otome game that involves a princess with the ability to sense when she might be about to die. She sees the love interests Adel, Josephy, Kiya, Milan, and Tobias glow when she meets them, and so invites them to become her knights knowing they might help protect her from death at some point. As we play, this also means we’ll see response options that will glow and suggest danger lies ahead and can be avoided.
Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights will come to the Switch in English on January 13, 2026, and the otome game has been available in Japan since April 2023.