Ice Goat Games Releases Draco and the Seven Scales for PC
A four-person remote studio spent over five years on a Game Boy-style Zelda-like and carried it to a paid PC release, with Switch and Switch 2 versions planned later.
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Ice Goat Games has released the PC version of Draco and the Seven Scales, a Game Boy-style action adventure. The debut title from the Seattle studio began as a project by lead developer Sam Long and was finished by a four-person team after more than five years. It has seven top-down dungeons, land and sea traversal modes, and more than 15 items. Steam wishlists passed 10,000 before launch.
The game swaps between two traversal modes: on-foot exploration and ship sailing, and the route a player picks changes which dungeons and puzzles open up. Ship performance and cannon power have their own upgrade track.
Pixel artist Manelzin built the Game Boy-style look with vivid accent colors, and composer Tohomoko wrote sea shanties with a separate theme for each area. Writer Isabel is the fourth member of the team.
On PC it is 2,050 yen or 15.99 USD, with a 10% Steam discount running until October 3. It runs on Steam Deck and supports English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish (Latin America), and Brazilian Portuguese.
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