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AGNI-FLARE CO., LTD. · Published by AGNI-FLARE CO., LTD. · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
SHIKA-Q is an online, real-time puzzle battle on a 10×10 board, where players link blocks to attack and defend. Original vocal tracks drive the action, creating an immersive experience that makes music a core part of gameplay.
Action, Indie · More free games
Join the fray in SHIKA-Q, where linking blocks to play original vocal tracks forms both your defense and attack. AGNI-FLARE CO., LTD. brings an innovative indie action game that makes every move count with immersive sound.
About this game
SHIKA-Q is an ultrafast competitive puzzle game where victory is decided in an instant by connecting Links on a 10×10 board.
The battlefield evolves in real time as attacks, disruption, recovery, and special moves unfold simultaneously.
There’s no time to hesitate—every moment demands your next move, creating relentless tension and speed.
Unlike traditional falling-block puzzle games, blocks in SHIKA-Q do not drop from above.
The moment you place a block, the board comes alive. Because matches play out in real time, success isn’t just about forming Links—it’s about reading your opponent and choosing the right action at the right moment, creating a mind game closer to a fighting game than a classic puzzle.
Every decision directly affects the outcome. Players must rely on both strategic thinking and fast reflexes.
Momentum can shift in seconds, and the state of the match is instantly readable, making SHIKA-Q not only thrilling to play but also exciting to watch—highly compatible with esports-style competition.
Music That Fights With You
SHIKA-Q’s most distinctive feature is its Music, fully synchronized with the match itself.
This is more than background music.
Vocal tracks dynamically intertwine with gameplay, directly amplifying tension and excitement as the battle unfolds.
Gameplay, music, and emotion sync together to create an immersive experience unlike anything else.
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Game Features
■ Strategy × Super Speed × Showdown (1–2 Players)
Connect Links on a 10×10 board as offense and defense unfold in real time.
Built around an ultrafast competitive design, split-second decisions determine victory or defeat.
Custom settings allow you to fine-tune the balance between speed and strategy—from more deliberate, tactical matches to extreme high-speed battles—supporting a wide range of playstyles.
In addition to Offline Versus, SHIKA-Q is planned to support Online Matches and Ranked Play, where a single moment can decide the outcome against players from around the world.
■ Challenge Mode (Single Player)
A solo mode fully synchronized with music and global leaderboards.
As you progress, both the music and gameplay evolve, demanding careful health management and strategic offense and defense.
Clear all 99 stages and aim for the highest score.
Unlike Versus Mode, Challenge Mode offers a different experience focused on discovering optimal solutions, delivering a deeply satisfying puzzle challenge.
■ Characters, Worldbuilding, and Customization
A cast of unique characters brings their own themes and flair to every match.
Customize your experience with UI designs, music, emotes, loading screens, wallpapers, icons, and more—express yourself even during battle.
Each theme includes dedicated character songs, allowing you to explore each character’s personality and world through music.
Rebuild the atmosphere to match your playstyle and preferences, and enjoy battles in a space that feels uniquely yours.
■ DLC Battle Pass – A Continuously Expanding Online Experience
The DLC Battle Pass unlocks rewards progressively by completing missions.
Packed with premium content—UI designs, music, emotes, loading screens, wallpapers, icons, and more—it elevates the competitive experience to the next level.
The more you play, the more expressive and visually rich your experience becomes.
Your progress is visible, your effort rewarded, supporting a long-term online journey filled with growth and achievement.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
- VR Support: Not supported
Supported Languages
Latest news
Community & EventsOfficial
The “2nd SHIKA-Q World Link Tournament,” will be held on July 11”!
The first-ever online tournament, the “2nd SHIKA-Q World Link Tournament,” will be held on Saturday, July 11, starting at 8:00 PM(JST)!This time, we’ll be using the Switch version! A live stream is also scheduled on our official YouTube channel. Moving forward, SHIKA-Q will be launching in earnest as an esports title. We look forward to your participation! Click here for registration and tournament guidelines ➡ https://tonamel.com/competition/pHMCzEN Info➡https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1CzhZ4bMXQ7Szx3t1efouOru2Yj9JRA-CASsu7a0xM/edit?usp=sharing*1 Join Discord and subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online.*2 Please be aware that there are important notes—such as changes to prizes—for participants outside of Japan, so please be sure to read the English version of the guidelines.--Next Tournaments--\July 11, July 25, August 29, September 26, October 31, November 28, December 19\Chiba Tournament: July 19 (Sun)Aichi Tournament: August 9 (Sun)Hiroshima Tournament: October 10 (Sat) & October 11 (Sun)Okayama Tournament: To be announced at a later dateRead full article on Community Announcements (Shika-Q Staff SA)Community & EventsOfficial
[EN] SHIKA-Q 80% OFF Sale! & 2026 Event Information
The Nintendo Switch version of SHIKA-Q is Discounting at 74%–80% OFF!!Please note that this discount applies only to the base game.Regularly priced at 15.99 USD (tax included), it is available for a limited time at just 3.19 USD!Please keep in mind that the discount rate for the LATAM (Latin America) region is 74%–79%. For more details, please check the respective eShop store pages for each country.Battle Passes (which unlock characters, BGM, and UI elements) and bundles containing both the base game and a Battle Pass are excluded from this sale.The discount is available until June 21 (Sun) at 23:59!And that's not all...The tournament schedule for the official SHIKA-Q competitions is now live!The lineup includes online tournaments open to players worldwide, as well as four offline regional tournaments held across Japan.The very first official tournament was held this past June as a side event at EVO Japan 2026. It turned out to be a highly competitive and thrilling event, bringing together everyone from complete beginners to seasoned veterans.The next tournament is scheduled for July 11! We hope you take this opportunity to pick up the game, start playing, and test your skills in the upcoming competitions.The exact start times will be announced at a later date.\July 11, July 25, August 29, September 26, October 31, November 28, December 19\Chiba Tournament: July 19 (Sun)Aichi Tournament: August 9 (Sun)Hiroshima Tournament: October 10 (Sat) & October 11 (Sun)Okayama Tournament: To be announced at a later dateDuring the sale period, professional gamers are also scheduled to host live streams where they will play against viewers.If you have ever wanted to test your skills against a pro, this sale is the perfect opportunity! Keep a close eye on the official SHIKA-Q social media channels so you don't miss out!Read full article on Community Announcements (Shika-Q Staff SA)AnnouncementsOfficial
‘SHIKA-Q’ Now Available on Nintendo Switch / PS4 / PS5!
Thank you for your patience, everyone.On April 9, 2026, SHIKA-Q was released worldwide for Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5. We would like to once again express our sincere thanks to everyone who participated in the playtests and to those who added the game to their wishlists.■ Purchase LinksNintendo Switch JP: https://store-jp.nintendo.com/item/software/D70010000079799US: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/shika-q-switch/FR: https://www.nintendo.com/fr-fr/Jeux/Jeux-a-telecharger-sur-Nintendo-Switch/SHIKA-Q-3060714.html#Vue_d_ensemblePS4 / PS5 https://store.playstation.com/ja-jp/product/JP5593-PPSA31366_00-0287878275943107(Store links and pricing may vary by region. Please also take care not to purchase the Battle Pass multiple times.) (Some features require a paid online service.)The release date for the Steam version has not yet been decided.If you’d like to start playing now, we recommend purchasing the game on one of the two platforms above.One more piece of news: SHIKA-Q was recently featured in an article by Famitsu!（Famitsu is one of Japan’s most well-known video game media outlets.)The article includes detailed questions about our development team, the origins of the company, and how the game came to be. We’d be delighted if you could give it a read as well. → https://www.famitsu.com/article/202604/72013If you’re interested, please feel free to join our Discord!We’d love to hear your feedback about the game and see your fan art.→ https://discord.gg/dVWQRHH95uRead full article on Community Announcements (Shika-Q Staff SA)AnnouncementsOfficial
SHIKA-Q Playtest Now Live!
To celebrate the start of pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch version (Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia), the ultra-fast competitive puzzle game SHIKA-Q is now available as a Steam Playtest starting today!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Steam Playtest Now Live! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Period: March 19, 2026 (Thu) around 20:00 JST – April 5, 2026 (Sun) 23:59 JSTThis Playtest is based on the Nintendo Switch version. You can experience a portion of the full game for free.Included Content:Offline Versus ModeChallenge Mode (up to Stage Level 20)If you're considering purchasing the Steam version, we encourage you to try the Playtest first. If you enjoy it, please consider adding it to your wishlist!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Also Recommended for Switch / PlayStation Players! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This Playtest is not only for Nintendo Switch users, but also for those considering purchasing on PlayStation®4 / PlayStation®5. Get an early feel for the gameplay, atmosphere, and controls on Steam.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Release Information ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━■ Nintendo Switch Available from April 9, 2026 (Thu) 00:00 JST Pre-orders now open in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia (20% off during pre-order period) Pre-Read full article on Community Announcements (SHIKA-Q_Staff_H)AnnouncementsOfficial
Pre-orders Begin for the Nintendo Switch Version( Japan/Asia/South Asia)
Agni Flare Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Yokohama, Kanagawa; CEO: Takeshi Inaba) is pleased to announce that Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch version of the ultra-fast competitive puzzle game SHIKA-Q, which the company develops and publishes, will begin on Thursday, March 19, 2026 in Asia Region. Starting around the end of March, we plan to begin accepting Pre-orders in the U.S. and Europe.The game is scheduled for a worldwide release on Nintendo Switch / PlayStation®4 / PlayStation®5 / Steam. The Nintendo Switch version will be available for purchase starting at 00:00 on Thursday, April 9, 2026. The PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®5 versions are planned for release in April, while the Steam version is currently under development with the release date yet to be determined.For the latest information, please visit the official website.SHIKA-Q Latest Teaser Trailer: ■ Pre-order Information(Japan/Asia/Southeast Asia)Pre-order Period: March 19, 2026 (Thu) – April 8, 2026 (Wed) 23:59Release Date: April 9, 2026 (Thu) 00:00Pre-order Discount: 20% off the regular price during the pre-order period (tax included; see package list below)Platform: Nintendo Switch■ Pre-order Packages (Nintendo Switch Version)SHIKA-Q (Base Game) Regular Price: ¥2,420 → Pre-order Price: ¥1,936 (20% off)SHIKA-Q Nexus Edition Base Game + Nexus Battle Pass Regular Price: ¥3,410 → Pre-order Price: ¥2,728 (20% off)SHIKA-Q Premium Edition Base Game + Premium Battle Pass Regular Price: ¥3,850 → Pre-order Price: ¥3,080 (20% off)SHIKA-Q Deluxe Edition Base Game + Battle Pass Set (Nexus + Premium) Regular Price: ¥4,840 → Pre-order Price: ¥3,872 (20% off)After the pre-order period (from April 9 onward), the above packages and individual battle passes will also be available for purchase.■ Pre-order BonusCustomers who purchase SHIKA-Q during the pre-order period will receive four in-game customization items.These items will be added to the in-game customization features and linked to the purchaser’s account. Note tha...Read full article on Community Announcements (SHIKA-Q_Staff_H)
