New Kingdom Hearts Mobile Game, Missing-Link, Announced, Closed Beta Test This Year

Square Enix has unveiled a new Kingdom Hearts mobile game called Kingdom Hearts: Missing-Link, with closed beta testing scheduled for later this year.

Revealed in today’s new 20th anniversary trailer, Missing-Link is more of a console Kingdom Hearts experience than standard mobile Kingdom Hearts (at least in terms of gameplay). Featuring a 3D environment, the familiar Heartless we’ve been fighting for for decades, this time on the battlefield, and completely free-to-play combat like the mainline series. At about 1 minute 55 seconds, you can see the action below.

As seen in the trailer above, it looks like we can create and customize our own Keyblade Master. Or at least it seems like you’re not playing as a Keyblade master you’ve known for the rest of the time. series. You’ll also see worlds from Disney, such as the Tangled world from Kingdom Hearts III, as well as a handful of previously visited worlds, including the original Kingdom Hearts world.

If you want to check out Missing-Link, you may have a chance sometime this year. Square Enix has announced that it will host closed beta testing of its mobile titles on iOS and Android devices in select regions of the world in 2022. . Square Enix hasn’t revealed where it is, but given the company’s base, Japan will be one of them.

Regarding what’s going on at Missing-Link, all we have to do right now is the audio commentary from the trailer. Here’s the full text:

“Light and darkness beget the beginning, and the mind nurtured it. Life passed over and over until the land was filled with thriving people. This is the city of light and darkness, dreams and distortions, the remembered and the forgotten - the city of Scala ad Caelum. missing link. People here come together to be part of a whole in a divided society that runs like a vein through the city. The night I woke up in this world, the distorted stars were shining in the pitch-black sky.”

During closed beta testing this year, Square Enix hasn’t revealed when Missing-Link will actually launch on iOS and Android devices.

Square Enix also revealed in today’s trailer that the long-awaited “finale” of Kingdom Hearts Union X’s long story set in the mobile game Kingdom Hearts Dark Road will be released for free this August.