Warota Village-Building RPG Closed Beta Test Starts June 24
The beta test offers the first public hands-on look at a game that combines village-building with action combat and a demon king who periodically attacks the player's base in live concert events.
Reporting from 3 sources: GAME Watch (Impress), Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark.
OneorEight will begin a closed beta test for the village-building action RPG "Warota, My House is Next to the Demon King's Castle www" on June 24 at 14:00 JST. The test runs through June 30 at 13:59 JST and is limited to approximately 100 participants. Players can experience the first two to three hours of gameplay, up to the first boss. The test is for the PC (Steam) version only and is conducted in Japanese. Applications are accepted via a dedicated form, with keys sent one to two days after registration. The game is developed by Team EARTH WARS and published by OneorEight. The Steam version is scheduled for winter 2026, while the Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 versions are planned for 2027. The publisher plans multiple beta test rounds depending on development progress. The test aims to improve game quality and collect user feedback.
In the game's story, the protagonist is saved by a goddess and reincarnated in the devastated otherworld Luna. Players take on the role of a "Bounder" with creative power and build a village on land directly adjacent to the demon king's castle.
The game's key mechanic is a collection of "hats" imbued with the goddess's power. Players can switch between multiple jobs by changing their own hat, or give hats to villagers to assign them tasks like farming or construction. The demon king periodically holds a live concert event called "Makyōen," which sends frenzied monsters to attack the village. In the official PV, the demon king taunts the player with lines like "Found a weakling village~."
The closed beta test supports Japanese, English, and Chinese (simplified and traditional) languages for the full game, though the first CBT is conducted only in Japanese. The publisher operates an official Discord server for updates on the beta and development progress. Team EARTH WARS is the developer, and OneorEight is the publisher.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 3 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.