Touhou Artifical Dreams in Arcadia and other modern DRPG's

Totally_Isla

This game came out the other day, being a touhou fan project mixed with the snes smt gameplay. It’s super good so far, and I am loving it despite not knowing anything about the story of touhou.

What are other indie games coming out nowadays that either are similar to old smt or just are dungeon crawling rpgs that are worth people’s while?

Chopemon

Warning this post won’t be super helpful

BUT

I played a demo for a game a couple of years ago that was SMT dungeon crawling. I think it was made by one person and I cannot remember their name or the name of the game. Maybe someone else will know it?

The developer is mainly known for glitch art with an anime influence. The game was a first person dungeon crawler. The characters look like they were sprites rendered from 3d. It was very purple, pink, white and black. It was definitely demonic themed and almost definitely had skills related to mystic hacking.

I wish I could remember what it was called because I remember really liking it. It was early but played well and looked great.

Anyway, not helpful but if I can remember what it was called, I think it fits the brief PERFECTLY

EDIT: thank you to @sdate, the game I’m referring to is Labyrinth.os and can be found here: https://dataerase.itch.io/daedalus000000exe

Totally_Isla

Chopemon there’s nothing you can do about not being able to remember something.

But damn that sounds so cool T-T

sdate

Chopemon https://dataerase.itch.io/daedalus000000exe ?

Chopemon

sdate YES, THANK YOU

Good pull!

gsk

I’d been dumping info on this game in the Etrian Odyssey thread but this is a more appropriate venue:

QUESTER, a compact retro DRPG with world and character design by Bastard!! mangaka Kazushi Hagiwara, made by a small team of veterans, including the former president of G-MODE and the designer of recent Dark Souls/Elden Ring TRPGs—this was essentially crowdfunded via paid beta access (plus a KS for the EN version), and they just launched a crowdfunding campaign for a sequel, plus Kemco’s signed on to bring the original to consoles.: https://cohost.org/gosokkyu/post/2947653-quester-deep-on-kibi

gsk

It’s not a modern game but Wizardry: The Five Ordeals, a remaster & first-ever localisation of the final Wizardry Gaiden game, left early access today:

This release not only includes the original game but also remakes of the content from the two previous Wiz Gaiden games as DLC, plus two new scenarios they just added for the 1.0 release (designed by prominent scenario makers from back in the day, both of whom now work as professional scenario writers/game devs), and they also went and converted (but didn’t translate) the ~ 200 custom scenarios created for the original mid-00s release so that they’d work with this one.

The big hook for the original version was the very in-depth scenario editor—that’s still coming for the remaster but due to some really silly bullshit concerning the byzantine legalities of the Wizardry IP, they’ve had to carve it out of the game and instead release it as a separate browser app, which is currently in beta.