One of the Wii’s most beautiful games is coming back — and for the first time, Vanillaware is coming to PC. Muramasa: The Demon Blade, the beloved 2009 action-RPG, returns worldwide on February 4, 2027 as Muramasa: Revenant Blades — a feature-packed 4K remake coming to Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC from Vanillaware and Marvelous. Seventeen years after the original’s debut, it’s somehow the studio’s first-ever PC release.
The Definitive Muramasa
Revenant Blades unites everything the game has ever been. The two original protagonists — Momohime and Kisuke, crossing Edo-period Japan amid a war over the cursed swords of the legendary smith Senji Muramasa — are joined from the start by the four characters introduced as Vita DLC: Okoi, Gonbe, Arashimaru and Rajaki, with all six stories available immediately. There’s a new localization with English voiceover, a training mode, fishing, a hot-springs vacation, an art gallery, a full-game script and cutscene viewers. Physical editions arrive on PS5, Switch and Switch 2 — with the full game on the Switch 2 cartridge — plus a Limited Edition bundling a collectible art book, a CD of select Basiscape soundtrack tracks, and a 10-by-14-inch byōbu folding screen featuring Vanillaware artwork.
108 Cursed Swords
The hook remains the swords — 108 of them, per PC Gamer, rebalanced so more of them stay relevant across the adventure. Each blade carries a unique skill, and the old superstition that a Muramasa blade must taste blood once drawn becomes a mechanic: a sword’s skill can only be equipped elsewhere once it’s “had its fill of bloodshed.” A new system lets you slot three ground and three air abilities across a trio of instantly swappable weapons — Polygon’s hands-on (from a Tokyo Game Show event) came away praising the “tight, responsive controls” and constant-pace combat, with skills like Haze Splitter, Moonslash and Moonbeam pulling you out of tight jams while broken blades heal on your back.
Director Wataru Nakanishi leans into the legend: “There’s definitely this reputation that the swords of Muramasa are cursed, but what that means is they have power. In this game Muramasa is an important character and will create these very powerful swords, but in turn [the protagonists] must collect souls for him, so they have this cooperative relationship based around this dark situation.” The art, meanwhile, got a genuine restoration — where original assets were missing, artists touched them up and recreated them by hand for the 4K release, an “arduous hand-drawn process” that produced, in Nakanishi’s words, “warm and colorful art.”
For a studio that followed Muramasa with 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and Unicorn Overlord, a remake is a fitting way to open its PC chapter — and February 4, 2027 just became one of the first highlights of next year’s release calendar.