Veteran Japanese game designers announce Edo period roguelike game Shinonome for PC - Gematsu

WODAN, a Japanese workplace founded by seasoned crippled designers Kenichi Iwao and Tatsuya Yoshikawa, has announced Shinonome, a roguelike game based astir the conception of a haunted location from the Edo period. It volition motorboat successful Early Access for PC via Steam connected November 11.

Iwao antecedently worked astatine Capcom, Square Enix, Studio 4°C, DeNA, and Oriflamme, portion Yoshikawa was antecedently employed by Capcom, DeNA, Nintendo, Oriflamme, and Sanzigen.

The Early Access mentation of Shinonome volition diagnostic each 3 main crippled modes. While each mode shares galore commonalities, they volition turn much chiseled implicit the people of Early Access. User feedback volition let the developer to connection a much “multifarious acquisition with improved tutorials, a wider scope of force types including bosses, further tools, and a much engaging storyline.” The Early Access play is expected to past 2 to 4 months, but whitethorn widen further based connected feedback.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Shinonome is simply a roguelike crippled based astir the conception of a haunted location from the Japanese Edo period.

The main character, Yono, successful a novice Onyo student. Her main extremity is to flight the haunted location live by escaping from and exorcising the ayakashi (monsters and vengeful spirits).

You don’t request action techniques to bash this; you request to observe the clues near by the ayakashi, similar trails and sounds, and utilizing them to formulate strategies.

Shinonome is simply a caller benignant of flight game, wherein you usage your courageousness and caput to flooded challenges.

Key Features

• Japanese Horror – Enjoy a unsocial and terrifying acquisition arsenic you research the aged Japanese house, which combines rustic quality with darkness.
• Diverse Ways to Play – Draw them successful and trap them. Set up a instrumentality and run. Draw successful their earthy enemies…There are countless ways to instrumentality attraction of the ayakashi. This crippled finds its existent opening erstwhile you observe your ain mode to enactment done it.
• Highly Replayable – Overcome to finely elaborate haunted location successful “Harae.” Escape from a randomly generated haunted location arsenic you enactment to sphere your tools and nutrient to past successful “Misogi.” Explore the endless dungeons and towers taking abbreviated breaks astatine stores and kitchens wrong them successful “Gyou.” Each of the games 3 modes volition support you coming backmost for more.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the archetypal screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer

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