Summary
To the surprise of no one,Kingdom Hearts 4once again skipped out on the latest gaming showcase and fans are starting to lose hope that we’ll see it in the near future.
All the way back in early 2021, Square Enix announced thatKingdom Hearts 4 was in development during the series' 20th anniversary celebration event. Considering the fact that Kingdom Hearts 3 wasn’t even that old by the time a sequel was announced, fans took it as a strong sign that lessons had been learned andthat we wouldn’t be waiting that long to see more.
Cut to more than 1,000 days later, and that’s sadly not the case at all. Not counting some slim details that series creator Tetsuya Nomura has revealed during interviews,we’ve heard and seen literally nothing else of Kingdom Hearts 4, a cruel fate that’s made worse every time a big gaming event rolls around.
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The showcase in question this time is PlayStation’s State of Play,which had its first showing of 2025 last night. Although we didn’t see several games that we thought we would (Ghost of Yoteiseemed like a slam dunk), it was still a strong presentation andfeatured a number of exciting first and third-party titles.
Before the State of Play,many Kingdom Hearts fans seemed convinced that KH4 was a safe bet for the showcasedue to it being so close to Valentine’s Day. While that was mostly a joke about hearts, Valentine’s Day, and Kingdom Hearts, it’s been so long since we’ve seen Kingdom Hearts 4 that most of us held onto what little hope was there.
Unsurprisingly, that hope didn’t matter much, as Kingdom Hearts 4 (and Square Enix in general, actually), was nowhere to be seen during the event.Fans are reacting about as well as you’d expect over on Twitter and Reddit, with Twitter user aitaikimochipointing out that Kingdom Hearts fans are in “shambles” after the no-show.
It’s eerily similar to what happens toBloodborne and Hollow Knight fans whenever a showcase rolls around. We’re all in this together, guys.
Kingdom Hearts content creator TheGamersJoint summed it up nicelyby pointing out that Square Enix is “TRULY MIA”, before lamenting its release schedule. Even Missing Link,which is surely coming out soon, doesn’t seem to be offering much support for fans and isn’t as anticipated as you might think.We’ve been through this so many times before, but let’s hope next time we actually see something.
