2P Games and Zerocreation Games has released visual novel The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty for Nintendo Switch worldwide. Fans can look forward to the sequel, The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City’s Fall, in Q4 2025.
“We are incredibly grateful for the support of more than a million fans around the world, which has made it possible to launch The Hungry Lamb on Nintendo Switch today,” said Ji Ling, producer at Zerocreation Games.
In the visual novel, players experience the story through the perspective of Liang, a refugee that lost everything on the day of the Great Tianqi Explosion in 1626. He turned to crime, shutting away his dream to travel the world as a hero. However, a certain job requiring him to escort four girls to a wealthy lord in the city of Luoyang will change his fate.
Like the existing Steam version, the Nintendo Switch version of The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty features English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese language options.
The voice cast of The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty includes:
- Sui
- CN: Hanser
- JP: Rie Kugimiya
- Tongue
- CN: Lengquan Yeyue
- JP: Kazuma Horie
- QiongHua
- CN: Hualing
- JP: Risa Shimizu
- Hong’er
- CN: Shi Yan
- JP: Hiroko Watanabe
- Cui’er
- CN: Liu Yilei
- JP: Yuina Yamada
- Kite
- CN: Yu Shan
- JP: Hiroko Watanabe
- The Dashing King
- CN: Cheng Zhichao
- JP: Kazuma Horie
- Swine Demon
- CN: Wang Xigua
- JP: Katsuya Miyamoto
Final Weapon reviewed the Nintendo Switch version of The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty, giving it a 3.5 out of 5. Despite some of its pacing issues, the dark visual novel has a satisfying narrative.
