


The only downside is that the English version won’t feature the many real-world Japanese airlines that are portrayed in the Japanese one, likely due to licensing issues. I’ve wanted a localization of this series for at least a decade, but I never actually expected it. The title puts you in command of the ATC of the super-busy Tokyo Haneda airport, and you have to guide plenty of airliners to take off and land safely in what is basically a challenging and fairly realistic puzzle. The series has been ongoing since 1998, and the version we’re getting is actually based on Haneda 2, the improved version of the game that was released in Japan in 2018. It will be released via Steam on October 15.

Veteran Kyoto-based developer TechnoBrain announced an English version of I Am an Air Traffic Controller 4, the latest in its long-running series of ATC simulators. While western releases of Japanese games aren’t rare nowadays, there are some that are still completely surprising.
