BODY: Most character creators let you change a hairstyle. Koei Tecmo's next alchemy RPG will let you decide how much its heroine has been snacking.
The publisher has confirmed that Atelier Kalia: Kingdom of Night and the Signpost of Memories, due 25 February 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC, will ship with a body-type adjustment feature for protagonist Kalia. The slider runs from a slim build to a noticeably fuller figure, concentrated mainly around the midsection, and the whole thing can be switched off entirely in the options menu for players who would rather leave her as designed.
Crucially, this isn't a paper-doll gimmick confined to a menu screen. Koei Tecmo says the chosen body type carries through into in-game scenes, so the look you pick is the Kalia you adventure with. The company was explicit about the origin of the feature too: it was implemented in direct response to the results of a user survey. Alongside the announcement, Gust also published the finished retailer-bonus illustrations.
The timing dovetails neatly with what players saw at Tokyo Game Show 2026, where hands-on demos showed Kalia constantly nibbling ingredients during both exploration and combat — a "taste-testing" motif that makes an adjustable waistline feel less like fan service and more like a running joke the development team decided to honour.
The game arrives in an aggressive spread of editions: ¥9,680 standard, ¥13,530 Premium Box, ¥23,650 Special Premium Box, and a ¥35,640 "GS Strongest Galaxy Combo Set" for the truly committed.
The insider take
Gust has quietly become one of the most survey-driven studios in Japan, and this is a textbook example of how that machinery works: a questionnaire result becomes a shipped feature within months, announced in a short drip-feed update rather than a trailer. The optional toggle is the tell — Japanese publishers have learned that heroine redesigns generate discourse in both directions, and making the change opt-in defuses it before it starts. It's also a small sign of where the Atelier series sits now: confident enough in its audience to treat body shape as a preference setting rather than a marketing decision.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).