Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files Creator Kotaro Uchikoshi Launches New Studio Crash Keys

Kotaro Uchikoshi, creator of Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files, has launched a new development studio called Crash Keys and serves as its representative director and CEO. The studio is seeking investment partners for original projects "unbound by conventional formulas." Uchikoshi said the studio was actually formed in March 2025, and that a new game in development for roughly a year and a half was cancelled.