While developer Monolith Soft has gone on to do great things alongside Nintendo with the Xenoblade series, the Xenosaga games have effectively been dead since the final entry launched in 2006. But now, at long last, there are signs of life. An obscure spin-off of the JRPG series called Xenosaga: Pied Piper is getting a modern release on Steam and Switch.
Xenosaga: Pied Piper was originally released for Japanese feature phones, also known as keitai, in 2004. That was an era when major Japanese publishers were rushing to establish a foothold in the rapidly expanding mobile market, and Pied Piper is one of many titles far more ambitious than the "mobile game" moniker would lead you to believe. It's a full, canonical side story to the main series, offering an episodic story and traditional turn-based combat.
