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Key and Visual Arts have opened a Steam page for their visual novel AIR. The companies will release the classic visual novel with remastered visuals on the platform on March 5, 2025.

AIR has been regarded by the Japanese visual novel community as one of the classics that defined the genre the most. Its theme song "Tori no Uta," which had appeared since the title's initial release as a PC R-18 game in 2000, has also become a popular song.

Visual Arts and Prototype have since brought the all-ages version of the visual novel to the Dreamcast, PS2, PSP, PS Vita, Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch. The latter was the most recent platform to get the visual novel in September 2021.

The new Steam version will have the addition of full Japanese voiceovers, which Key did not add to its prior PC releases. It will also have additional subtitle in English and Simplified Chinese. The side story "Hatsuzora no Sho," which is now officially known in English as "First Sky Chapter," will also be available in visual novel format. In addition, Key and Visual Arts revealed that the Steam version will also touchscreen gestures when installed on a Steam Deck or tablet PC.

The visual novel AIR will be available on PC via Steam on March 5, 2025.

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The visual novel AIR will release on the Nintendo Switch in September. The Nintendo Switch port of the visual novel was first announced in early June. Originally, it was revealed that AIR would arrive on the Switch in the Summer of 2021. However, developer Prototype has revealed that AIR will release on the Switch on September 9, 2021. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

This version of AIR will touchscreen and one handed controls, as well a scroll feature for players to view parts of cutscenes that the Nintendo Switch screen may cut off. Additionally, this version of AIR will feature voice acting from a large cast of voice actors. The Nintendo Switch port will also feature a fully voiced version of the side-story, “Hatsuzora no Sho."

Prototype has released an official website alongside the announcement of an official release date. The website itself is fairly sparse, with only a single image available. More information will be available through the website in the future.

AIR originally released for PC in 2000. In 2001, it then released on the Sega Dreamcast, with a PlayStation 2 version releasing in 2002. In 2007 AIR released for the PlayStation Portable, with a able version appearing in 2010.

AIR will release for the Nintendo Switch on September 9, 2021 in Japan.

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The legendary Japanese visual novel AIR will release on the Nintendo Switch. It will other well-known visual novels like Clannad and Little Busters! in the popular platform's ever-growing library. [Thanks, Ryokutya2089.]

The Switch release of AIR will touchscreen and one-handed controls. This will allow players to scroll through event cutscenes and view parts that the screen limitations might cut off. Additionally, the Switch port will also retain the additional "Hatsuzora no Sho" chapter based on the side-story novel of the same title.

AIR is a visual novel that first released as an adults-only game for PC in 2000. An all-ages version of the title also released on the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Android, iOS, and PlayStation Vita. Prototype, the publisher behind many other visual novels like Summer Pockets Reflection Blue and the Grisaia Phantom Trigger series, handled the Vita release in 2016. It was the first version to add the "Hatsuzora no Sho" chapter.

AIR tells the story of Yukito Kunisaki, a traveling showman who is looking for the "girl in the sky" said to be the key to ending his journey. He will interact with and choose from the three main heroines: Misuzu Kamio, Minagi Tohno, and Kano Kirishima.

The classic visual novel AIR will be available for Nintendo Switch in Summer 2021.

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