What a great news, Wizardry Variants : Daphne is now available on desktop via Steam.
If you don't know the game, it's a Japanese-style Wizardry RPG. Meaning it plays like the five first Wizardry games, and not so much like the 6th to 8th episodes which are more open-world.
Dark corridors await.
Nevertheless, it's a really exciting game, I started to play it on mobile, and immediately got hooked. ＼ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ／
It's in fact a dungeon crawling RPG, where you assemble a party of six adventurers and go into the deepest darkness of a labyrinth. The story I don't know so much, because I'm skipping most of dialogues, but it seems more developed than just asking you to find a treasure, there is something going on between characters etc.
What is really nice is that you get some attachment to your party members, especially knowing that they can die forever, or lose all will to fight and take months to get back to sanity.
Maybe the fact that you can loose them forever makes the bond stronger... But some of them are pains, and I was actually quite happy to get rid of them, however cute they look like.
Kiriha is my favorite fighter, but begins as a quite weak one (Ninja class).
The art style is definitely 3D-anime like, but not so much as to make it unbearable if you don't like anime, so it's ok, the cuteness of your fighters contrasts with the ugliness of monsters, who are extremely detailed and disgusting, sometimes even scary like "warped ones"
Of course the game is a gacha-game, with all the pay-to-win aspects that this involves, but still it's absolutely possible to play the game without paying anything, just be ready to grind, but that's Wizardry guys, it was always grindy (Ok, I admit, the Japanese ones more than the American ones).
Anyway for now, Gori is going back to the depths of the Abyss, and will wait for you there... ┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬
