The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV
DeveloperNihon Falcom
PublisherNIS America
  • JP: Nihon Falcom
DirectorTakayuki Kusano
ProducerToshihiro Kondo
Programmers
  • Toru Endo
  • Nobuhiro Hioki
  • Atsushi Oosaki
Writers
  • Hisayoshi Takeiri
  • Yoshihiro Konda
  • Syunsei Shikata
Composers
  • Hayato Sonoda
  • Takahiro Unisuga
  • Yukihiro Jindo
  • Mitsuo Singa
SeriesTrails
EnginePhyreEngine
Platforms
Release
September 27, 2018
  • PlayStation 4
    • JP: September 27, 2018
    • NA/EU: October 27, 2020
    • AU: November 6, 2020
  • Nintendo Switch
    • JP: March 18, 2021
    • WW: April 9, 2021
  • Windows
    • WW: April 9, 2021
  • PlayStation 5
    • NA/EU: February 16, 2024
    • JP: August 21, 2025
GenreRole-playing
ModeSingle-player

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV is a 2018 role-playing video game developed by Nihon Falcom. The game is the ninth installment of the Trails series, itself a part of the larger The Legend of Heroes series, and follows Trails of Cold Steel III (2017) as the final entry of the Erebonia arc.

Trails of Cold Steel IV was released for the PlayStation 4 in Japan in September 2018 and worldwide in October 2020, with ports for Nintendo Switch, Windows and Stadia released in April 2021. A PlayStation 5 port was released in February 2024. A sequel, Trails into Reverie, was released in 2020.