Editing Serial Experiments Lain (section)

===Video games===
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On November 26, 1998, Pioneer LDC released a video game with the same name as the anime for the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005OVPO/|title=Serial Experiments Lain|access-date=September 25, 2010|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122195345/https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005OVPO/|url-status=live}}</ref> It was designed by Konaka and Yasuyuki, and made to be a "network simulator" in which the player would navigate to explore Lain's story.<ref name="HK" /> The creators themselves did not call it a game, but "Psycho-Stretch-Ware",<ref name="HK" /> and it has been described as being a kind of [[visual novel]]: the gameplay is limited to unlocking pieces of information, and then reading/viewing/listening to them, with little or no puzzle needed to unlock.<ref name="GAF">{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesarefun.com/gamesdb/review.php?reviewid=67|title=Games Are Fun: "Review – Serial Experiments Lain – Japan"|date=April 25, 2003|access-date=November 10, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927061706/http://www.gamesarefun.com/gamesdb/review.php?reviewid=67|archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref> Lain distances itself even more from classical games by the [[random]] order in which information is collected.<ref name="HK" /> The aim of the authors was to let the player get the feeling that there are myriads of informations that they would have to sort through, and that they would have to do with less than what exists to understand.<ref name="HK" /> As with the anime, the creative team's main goal was to let the player "feel" Lain, and "to understand her problems, and to love her".<ref name="Animerica2" /> A guidebook to the game called ''Serial Experiments Lain Official Guide'' ({{ISBN|4-07-310083-1}}) was released the same month by [[MediaWorks (publisher)|MediaWorks]].<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ja:シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン公式ガイド|trans-title=Serial Experiments Lain Official Guide|language=ja|id={{ASIN|4073100831|country=jp}}}}</ref>

In March 2025, Team MJM announced ''Signal'', an official occult-themed role-playing game derivative of the ''Serial Experiments Lain'' series. Scheduled for release on April 30, 2025, the game will be available for [[Windows]] and [[macOS]] via [[Steam (service)|Steam]] and [[itch.io]] services, with a limited CD-ROM edition also planned.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Loo|first1=Egan|last2=Tai|first2=Anita|title=Authorized Serial Experiments Lain Spinoff Game Launches on April 30|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-16/authorized-serial-experiments-lain-spinoff-game-launches-on-april-30/.222447|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=March 17, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250317022227/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-16/authorized-serial-experiments-lain-spinoff-game-launches-on-april-30/.222447|archive-date=March 17, 2025|date=March 16, 2025}}</ref>