Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Leak Has Fans Wishing Square Enix Hadn't Canceled Its Mobile Spinoff

What appears to beryllium astir finished footage of the intro for canceled mobile crippled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link has leaked online.

Kingdom Hearts fans were taken aback implicit the play erstwhile clips from a never-released crippled recovered their mode online done 4chan (via Vice). The task successful question is Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, an iOS and Android rubric that was announced successful 2022, worked connected for years, and yet canceled successful 2025.

Things heated up contiguous erstwhile what seems to beryllium the full, astir five-minute intro series was published and rapidly shared crossed YouTube, X/Twitter, Reddit, and different sites. Without involution from Square Enix, it's inactive unclear if this video genuinely originated from Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, but if it is simply a fake leak, it's a truly convincing one.

THE ENTIRE KINGDOM HEARTS MISSINK LINK INTRO HAS LEAKED OH MY GOOOOOOOOD pic.twitter.com/2zvF4dCC8P

— kij (@kijuler) July 20, 2026

The archetypal moments of the supposedly leaked footage look much similar Death Stranding than Kingdom Hearts. It begins with a squad of spacesuit-wearing individuals descending into a dark, watery abyss with lone a small airy to usher them forward. Then, the Heartless – and the Keyblades – travel out.

"The epoch missing from history's cycle," subtitles featured successful the footage said. "As radical and Heartless endlessly emerged from the distortions, it was the 3rd procreation of the founded metropolis that faced the existent quality of this phenomenon.

"Light and acheronian brought astir the beginning, and hearts nurtured it. One procreation succeeded different arsenic clip flowed connected — until the satellite that came to beryllium was filled with thriving people. This is simply a metropolis of airy and darkness, kindred and kinless, dreams and distortions — the metropolis Scala advertisement Caelum. On the nighttime that you opened your eyes successful this world, the stars — beautifully distorted — rained down from the pitch-black sky."

It looks much similar Kingdom Hearts 4 than a canceled mobile spinoff, with the footage shown contiguous depicting a task that whitethorn person been comparatively acold on earlier its cancelation. Naturally, fans are having mixed feelings astir the full ordeal arsenic they effort to portion unneurotic what precisely is happening.

"I conjecture this afloat confirms that the dude successful the caller KH4 trailer is 100% Sigurd," 1 instrumentality connected Reddit said. "It was highly speculated from the akin colour strategy of the clothes, but wasn't confirmed."

"Everything astir this, from the Keyblade astronauts to the plan of the Scala advertisement Caelum inhabitants scratches a precise circumstantial Final Fantasy itch for me," different added. "I anticipation they sorb astir of this into KH4."

"Dude, I thought I was watching footage from Pragmata until the freaking Starlight Keyblades came out," different instrumentality joked.

"The information that we're getting Kingdom Hearts leaks successful 2026 is someway precise connected marque for this franchise," 1 instrumentality connected X said.

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— Clint (@Daedraform101) July 20, 2026

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— 𝑴𝑨𝑱𝑼𝑼𝑩 (@imajinbuub) July 20, 2026

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— Alexandre T. 🔺 (@Narualex04) July 20, 2026

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— olu (@officiallyolu) July 20, 2026

Square Enix whitethorn ne'er merchandise the ironically named Missing-Link, but there's ever the accidental we could spot its connections to the wider beingness picked up successful Kingdom Hearts 4. You tin spot the latest footage for that long-awaited follow-up here.

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