Umamusume: Pretty Derby (mobile game)
| Umamusume: Pretty Derby | |
|---|---|
| Umamusume Pretty Derby Logo.png | |
| Kanji | ウマ娘 プリティーダービー |
| Romaji | Umamusume Puritī Dābī |
| Game Information | |
| Developer | Cygames |
| Publisher | JP Cygames KR Kakao Games |
| Platform(s) | Windows (through DMM) Android |
| Release | JP (Android/iOS) February 24th, 2021 JP (Windows) March 10th, 2021 |
Umamusume: Pretty Derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー, Umamusume Puritī Dābī) is a mobile game produced by Cygames available on Android, iOS and Windows PCs released in February 24th, 2021.
History
The Umamusume project started as a multimedia project first announced at AnimeJapan 2016, with the release of the first PV and a mobile game scheduled to release on Winter 2018. The first PV of the mobile game was released on AnimeJapan 2017, looking very different from the actual game, but with many of the gameplay mechanics being the same. In an interview with Famitsu in January 2017, the then-producer Akihiro Ishihara claimed the game was "about 25% complete", and to look forward to "the end of [2017]'s G1 race". Cygames then kept releasing other several PVs throughout 2017 and 2018, and released the first season of the anime in Spring 2018.
On December 2018, the game was officially delayed, with an unknown release date on 2019. On April 2019, Akihiro Ishihara, the producer back then for Umamusume, left Cygames, and on December 2019 the game was delayed once again to 2020, date mentioned on CyberAgent's (Cygames' parent company) Q2 and Q3 reports. From 2019 to mid-2020, the project as a whole had almost no new content, until Umayon's release in Summer 2020 and the announcement of the Cinderella Gray manga.
After 5 years from the original project's announcement, on a Pakalive stream in December 2020, the game was announced to release on February 24th, 2021, with pre-registrations opening on February 10th, and a PV release which is the game we see now.