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Hope of Elements Sets Spring 2027 Launch for PC
Harrison World announced on October 28, 2026 that Hope of Elements: The Witch and the Dragon's Journey will launch in spring 2027 on PC via Steam, with in-game text in Japanese. Embers Studio developed the turn-based strategy roguelike.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Automaton.
Why it matters
The demo's 63rd place in Steam's Popular Upcoming ranking during Steam Next Fest gives Harrison World a measurable signal of interest before the spring 2027 launch, at a point when no specific release date has been announced.
Key Facts
- Harrison World announced on October 28, 2026 that Hope of Elements: The Witch and the Dragon's Journey will launch in spring 2027.
- Hope of Elements: The Witch and the Dragon's Journey is developed by Embers Studio and releases on PC via Steam with Japanese in-game text.
- Hope of Elements: The Witch and the Dragon's Journey features five elements: fire, water, earth, wood and lightning.
- The Steam Next Fest demo of Hope of Elements: The Witch and the Dragon's Journey covers the Domain of Wood story to its end and part of the Domain of Water story.
- Hope of Elements: The Witch and the Dragon's Journey reached 63rd place in Steam's Popular Upcoming ranking during October's Steam Next Fest.
Players control Iris, a silver-haired witch, traveling with a small dragon named Pipi through a fantasy world built on five elements: fire, water, earth, wood and lightning. The two share a common loneliness, and their journey has two aims: finding a way to save Pipi as elemental reactions weaken the dragon's body, and reaching the Domain of Lightning above the clouds. Play alternates between quarter-view map exploration and turn-based battles, where Iris moves and casts elemental magic. Players pick treasures from three candidates, and attribute damage and reaction behavior shift as a run progresses, which forms the roguelike layer.
Field objects carry the elemental system beyond the unit roster. Casting fire magic at a stone holding the lightning element produces a Lightning Flame Explosion that damages surrounding enemies at once. A Trap Spirit born from fire and earth waits on the board and detonates when an enemy steps on it, then leaves ground of the wood element behind when its target dies. Because the board changes with each reaction, positioning alone does not decide a turn; the state of the map does.
Harrison World is publishing, and Embers Studio is developing. The Steam Next Fest demo covers the Domain of Wood story through to its end plus part of the Domain of Water story. Outside the demo, the game holds more than 100 kinds of treasures and random events, so runs diverge. Reaction behavior across the five elements is the mechanical center: damage from each attribute and from reactions changes as builds come together.
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