Solo Developer sfvsoft Announces Castle Town Builder Jyoka -Joka- For PC
Solo developer sfvsoft announced Jyoka -Joka- on October 29, a Sengoku-era castle town construction strategy game for PC via Steam launching November 16 with Japanese in-game text.
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Why it matters
The pitch ties every system to rice: paddies feed subjects, pay retainers as stipends, and determine the labor and military obligations behind troop strength, so the town-building half directly sets the size of the army the battle halves can field.
Key Facts
- Solo developer sfvsoft announced Jyoka -Joka- on October 29.
- Jyoka -Joka- will be released for PC via Steam on November 16.
- The game supports Japanese in-game text.
- Players place more than 190 types of buildings in the castle town building part.
- Siege battles offer 73 enemy castles modeled on real castles.
Players act as a minor lord rebuilding land ruined by bandit raids, placing more than 190 building types, managing rice as the central resource, and fighting defensive and siege battles against bandits, neighboring lords, and the daimyo who control the region.
Jyoka -Joka- splits play into three parts: castle town building, defense battles, and siege battles. In the building part, players change "hatto" laws, adjusting six types of tax rates and labor conscription rates. Higher taxes raise dissatisfaction among subjects; lower taxes raise satisfaction, and satisfied territories draw more migrants from surrounding areas.
A retainer system recreates Sengoku master-servant ties. Players appoint applicants or promote common soldiers to ashigaru taisho, and grant rice paddies as stipends. Retainers owe labor and military service according to the kokudaka of the paddies granted to them. Defense uses fences, moats, stone walls, yagura, and tenshu, with six equipment types: swords, spears, long-handled spears, bows, cavalry, and matchlock guns.
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