Pixel-Art Sci-Fi JRPG Stillsun Ark Announced for PC
The developer's explicit stance that Japanese is the top priority among languages under consideration signals that Stillsun Ark is courting the Japanese market even while it ships English-only at first.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Shinra Software has announced Stillsun Ark, a turn-based sci-fi JRPG in pixel art, for PC via Steam. The game is set on a tidally locked world where survivors of a cargo ship and the pirate ship that attacked it must cooperate in a hostile alien ecosystem. A parasite-based SHIFT system lets characters change forms mid-battle. The game is currently English-only, with Japanese named the top priority among languages under consideration.
The protagonist's main weapon is a large wrench, a detail the developer attributed to preference. Stillsun Ark ties its transformation combat to the planet's parasitic organisms: the SHIFT system connects mind and body with them and grants new powers, letting characters change forms mid-battle to exploit enemy weaknesses. The story starts with a cargo ship and the pirate ship that attacked it drifting onto the same planet, where the two crews, once enemies, must cooperate to survive the alien ecosystem and find a way home. The game is planned for release on Steam, with further details to come on the official X account.
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