Dear me, I was...

Dear me, I was... is an upcoming adventure game by Arc System Works for Nintendo Switch 2. Scheduled for Summer 2025, the game features a textless story that follows the perspective of a yet-unnamed woman and the struggles of her daily life.^[1]

Dear me, I was...
Developer(s)	Arc System Works
Publisher(s)	Arc System Works
Director(s)	Maho Taguchi
Producer(s)	Ryohei Endo
Artist(s)	Taisuke Kanasaki
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch 2
Release	Summer 2025
Genre(s)	Puzzle adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Development and release

Dear me, I was... was announced for the Nintendo Switch 2 during an Arc System Works Showcase that was broadcast on YouTube on June 26, 2025, with a release window scheduled for Summer 2025.^[2] The game will be directed by Maho Taguchi, with art direction by Taisuke Kanasaki, who previously worked on Cing's Another Code series (and its remake, Another Code: Recollection), Hotel Dusk series and Chase: Cold Case Investigations - Distant Memories. The game is a textless adventure game that features animation with rotoscoping technology, which the artwork was created by filming live-action footages, which was then traced and colored. This marks Kanasaki's return to this style of animation since the 2010 Nintendo DS title, Last Window: The Secret of Cape West. The game was developed targeting a demographic of older women, and is designed to "make the player feel a bit more positive while playing"..^[3]

Dear me, I was... will be released on the Nintendo Switch 2 worldwide as a digital-only download through Nintendo eShop in Summer 2025.^[4]