Do you like tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem?
Strategic thinking, Grid based movement, Careful placement due to attack ranges?
Do you like dungeon crawlers like Persona?
Explore a huge mansion 1 room at a time. Choose to sneak past enemies or fight them all! 8 elemental attack options and abusing weaknesses to cripple the enemy!
Then you should check out the demo for Transfer of Essence!
Transfer of Essence is a passion project that I've been solo developing for almost 3 years now. Other than commissioning the box art shown above, everything else from art, to music, to programming in the game has currently been done by me.
I do have plans to hire an artist to replace the art but I wanted to release this demo first to get feedback on the game overall.
My focus was on combining elements from Fire Emblem and Persona as shown above but it also features:
A dynamic action system - Every action costs 1 action point. Plan your turns carefully.
Cast of never before seen fantasy creatures - Set in a fictional universe, every creature encountered is a hybrid of familiar faces.
Rougelike elements with rich character driven stories - The stories of the 6 characters never change but the skills learned and enemies encountered along the way will vary.
For this demo only one character's story is available, and it only covers the first chapter of his story.
That is because the focus of this demo is to get feedback on gameplay experience and see if any areas need to be improved before implementing more of the story.
Please check out the demo here:
https://jtrev23.itch.io/transfer-of-essence-demo
Remember, the choice is yours