JRPG roguelike action game ‘MISTROGUE: Mist and the Living Dungeons’ begins Early Access!
April 24, 2023 — Polyscape Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) launches a new roguelike JRPG action game 'Mistrogue: Mist and the Living Dungeons' for PC (Windows/Mac) in Early Access today. A launch trailer has also been released to commemorate the Early Access launch.
Launch trailer: https://youtu.be/YXx_12xGCpI
MISTROGUE is an ambitious project developed in roughly half a year by a team of six game developers. Players can enjoy various playstyles with full controller support and Steam Deck compatibility. The Early Access version includes three dungeons, and will allow players to play the story until the end in Japanese, English, and Chinese. The full release is planned for Autumn 2023. A port for the Nintendo Switch™ is also planned.
Players will play as Mist, the treasure hunter, who explores the “living dungeons” using various skills and items.
Experience MISTROGUE’s “Living Dungeons” as terrain, footholds, monsters, traps, and everything inside the dungeon suddenly transform right before the players’ eyes in real-time.
Confront the living dungeons by coming up with your own strongest skill build and utilize the 'Maze Stones' to create a path in a spot of your choosing, all while fighting against the relentless assault from monsters and gimmicks. The key to survival will be your adaptability to ever-changing situations.
1. Everything in the dungeon can change in a blink of an eye. Adapt to survive.
The 'living dungeons' will respond to Mist's actions and generate gimmicks and obstacles in real-time. There may be platforms with enemies or treasure boxes on them that suddenly appear when you approach them, bridges that collapse once you cross them, floors that move different directions, terrain that allows you to go up and down using elevations, etc.
Due to the strange powers of the living dungeons, Mist's level will reset every time he enters the dungeon. If Mist is defeated in the midst of exploration, some items and money obtained in that run will be lost. As mentioned previously, the dungeons' structures change constantly, so players must not let their guard down during exploration.
2. A great balance of strategy and action.
Players can use items and change their equipment in the middle of a battle. Choose your equipment and spell books carefully depending on the situation. However, items and skills have a cooldown time, so you cannot use them continuously in succession. You can gather a large number of enemies in one spot then stun them all at once with a spell book, or use knockback attacks to make enemies fall off platforms.
Use the item 'Maze Stone' or special skills from certain equipment to create retreat paths, or drop footholds along with the enemies on the footholds at your own discretion. Freely utilize the unique puzzle aspects to clear the maze.
3. Find a build that works for you!
Mist can equip four types of equipment: weapons, shields, bangles, and rings. Weapons, shields, and bangles have inherent skills. Effectively mix and match these skills to increase the synergy between skills multiple times. Using this feature, players can progress their exploration with builds that match their playstyles or the enemies they are facing, such as an attacker-type build with critical rate raised to the limits, thief-type build that specializes in ailments and agility, or tank-type build that specializes in defense and healing.
While rings do not have any skill, they will raise specific parameters. Ring drops are completely random, so players must look for the most suitable ring for their build if they wish to further optimize their character.
MISTROGUE: Mist and the Living Dungeons
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2102320/MISTROGUE/
Release Date: April 24, 2023
Early Access Price: $19.99 / £16.50 / € 19.50.
To keep up with the latest updates for MISTROGUE and to take part in community discussions, make sure to follow us on Twitter and join our Discord.
Discord Serverhttps://discord.gg/5nXmP2Q3GF
Twitter https://twitter.com/PolyscapeInc
About Polyscape Inc.
Polyscape Inc. is a Japanese startup established by Hiroki Shimada, with the mission to “create a virtual world where people can live freely”. MISTROGUE: Mist and the Living Dungeons is Polyscape Inc.’s first foray into games development.
Website: https://polyscape.io
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