Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Released Mar 2017
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $29.99
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Evaluation
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games is a compilation of two previously released visual novels — Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999) and Virtue's Last Reward (VLR) — released together on Steam on March 24, 2017. The store description presents it as a complete package bundling both titles with remastered graphics and added voice acting. There is no DLC listed for this compilation, and the developer has made no announcements of additional content for it since launch.
The developer's news feed for this game's Steam page is largely populated with announcements for other Spike Chunsoft titles (notably the AI: The Somnium Files series), which the publisher cross-promotes here due to the shared creative lineage with the Zero Escape series director Kotaro Uchikoshi. These posts are unrelated to the content status of The Nonary Games itself. The only updates directly relevant to this game were a handful of bug fix patches in the weeks following launch (the last noted was April 17, 2017), with no subsequent content updates of any kind.
This game launched as a complete, finished product — a remastered bundle of two existing games — with no post-launch content cycle ever established. No expansions, DLC, or future updates have been announced or released since launch.
Evidence
Store description presents the game as a complete bundle of two full visual novels (999 and VLR) with remastered features, with no mention of additional planned content or DLC.
Patch V1.0.0.3 released shortly after launch addressing bug fixes and stability improvements. This is the last developer communication directly related to The Nonary Games.
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Developer
Publisher
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Achievements
38
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line as part of a dangerous life and death game? Who can be trusted? Tensions rise as the situation becomes more and more dire, and the nine strangers must figure out how to escape before they wind up dead.
- Two spine-tingling Nonary Games
Zero welcomes you to take part in both the Nonary Game and the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition as the award-winning escape-the-room visual novels Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999) and its sequel, Virtue’s Last Reward (VLR), are together for the first time. - A remastered and revamped Nine Hours
The well-received classic Nintendo DS game 999 has been updated with hi-res graphics and a variety of new features including both Japanese and English voice acting! - Seek a way out
Search for clues within numerous locked rooms and solve mind-bending puzzles in order to escape. VLR even has two difficulty settings for more of a challenge. - Fascinating theories and pseudo science ideas abound along the twisting, turning journey to uncover who Zero is, why everyone was kidnapped, and the shocking connection between the Nonary Games.
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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