Unannounced Atlus Game’s Codename Leaks Online

Highlights

• One of Atlus’s yet-to-be-announced games is internally designated as XRD792, according to a reliable insider.
• Atlus has used the XRDxxx codename format at least 25 other times since the early 2000s.
• The scheme appears to use the three digits at the end as ordinal numbers denoting project chronology, which suggests that XRD792 started development well after Persona 3 Reload (XRD777) did in 2019 and could hence be years away from release.

One of the unannounced games currently in development at Atlus has the codename XRD792, a well-known leaker has said. Although the purported designation is fairly nondescript, it matches with Atlus’s established code-naming practices, consequently offering one concrete clue about the mysterious project.

The Sega subsidiary is presently rumored to be working on over half a dozen unannounced games. Its current list of projects is said to include the remakes of Persona 2 and Persona 4, according to an early February report from Midori, an established insider with an impressive track record of Atlus- and Sega-related leaks.

Midori is also the one responsible for this newly emerged codename scoop, having taken to Twitter on February 17 to claim that one of Atlus’s upcoming projects is internally designated as XRD792. The alleged alias dovetails with the Japanese studio’s track record of using game codenames starting with “XRD” followed by three digits. The practice is at least 19 years old, with the oldest known project to use such a designation being the Wii exclusive Trauma Center: Second Opinion, which started development in 2005 as XRD625, as previously uncovered by dataminer Regularpan.

Every other 21st-century game from Atlus followed a similar codename scheme, with the company reusing the format at least 24 other times since the early aughts. Since the practice historically encompassed titles spanning a variety of genres and series, the XRD792 designation does not offer any clues about which of the currently rumored Atlus games it could belong to.

XRD792 Game Likely Started Development Well After Persona 3 Reload

However, historical trends suggest that the last three digits in this format are used as ordinal numbers, denoting the chronological order of a given project. While not every Atlus game used this designation scheme, the recently released Persona 3 Reload did, having been internally designated as XRD777. Meanwhile, the 2020 Shin Megami Tensei 3: NocturneHDRemaster and Catherine: Full Body were code-named XRD773 and XRD774, respectively. Based on that trend, it would appear that XRD792 started development well after Persona 3 Reload (XRD777) did in 2019.

Although the gap between the newly leaked codename and the Persona 3 Reload designation might suggest there are currently at least 15 other projects in the works at Atlus, that’s not to say all of them will ever make it to the market, even if that assumption is accurate. The Japanese studio appears to use this labeling format quite liberally, so it’s possible that at least some of the projects in the XRD778-791 range have never left the concept phase, assuming they ever existed in the first place. Based on the company’s recent tendency to go through around ten XRDxxx designations per year, XRD792 plausibly started development around 2021 and is hence unlikely to be part of Atlus’s 2024 game lineup.