Small Saga

[Dexter]

Venture below the streets of London, and you will find the medieval kingdom of rats, mice, moles, squirrels, and shrews known as Rodentia.

If the rodents have a cardinal law, it is this: never attack a god. But Verm never had much respect for the rule of law. His tail was stolen by the Yellow God of Death, and now the mouse will have to fight all manner of beasts and titans on his quest to get it back.

Features:

• Team up with a colorful cast of misfit rodents.
  
• Encounter awe-inspiring titans. Clash with a swashbuckling water vole, a pious lab rabbit, a poetry-spewing kraken, and many more.
  
• Meet the hideous vermin who run society, then overthrow them.
  
• Brandish your tiny weapons in strategic, turn-based combat.
  
• There are no random encounters, and no grinding. This game is all about a rich story and memorable boss fights.

There's a Demo for this on Steam till the 28th, grab and play it.

 

[Eisen]

Feels like a JRPG

 

[Dexter]

Played the Demo. It's cutesy with a sense of humor, there's some hidden Secrets, it can be played with a Controller (X Menu, B Run). Areas are "cut off" rectangular Screens you traverse between like in Little Big Adventure. Dialogue is in bubbles between protagonist and his companion and other creatures he meets. JRPG-inspired Menus and "Epic" combat with pseudo-3D Cutscenes. Enemies can "Goad" you in combat, and if you attack they retaliate. HP restores after each combat. You Save the game at different Statues littered across the game world. Nice music. Circular Skills Menu with branches to different sides, early ones seem mostly +Attack/HP/Action Points with a few Utility or special ones littered throughout. There's status effects like Bleeding or Stunned in combat. You seem to be able to Reskill at will. Interesting lore around humans, rodents and other fierce creatures. Gets very tense and "real" for a bit there, but I wouldn't want to spoil anything. After that you make your way to the city of the mole people, Cranbaile, where they have item vendors, a library and everything. There's a over-world map with an... interesting Quick travel system. People should definitely play the Demo as long as it's available and check it out for themselves.

Screenshots

 

[ghostdog]

The art style is fantastic.

 

[Abu Antar]

Played the demo. While the developer has made a "JRPG", it is only the gameplay that is like one. The writing doesn't try to ape one. This is something that western "jrpgs" often fail at.

It looks great, plays well, has acceptable writing, and sounds great. I'll at least wishlist the game.

 

[Salvo]

Music is incredible and world-building, while simple, is pretty decent. Plays like your average JRPG, but I had a lot of fun in the Demo.
Looking forward to release.

 

[jawbone]

A year later and progress is steady, lucky for us.

Spoiler

 

[lightbane]

I thought it was vaporware by now.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Berengar]

Oh nice this project still exists

 

[Salvo]

This ISN'T Vaporware? very cool, look forward to its release