About This Game

Story Overview 

Help Erica, the skinner's daughter, gather her three dysfunctional companions before embarking on an epic quest to slay the God-Beasts and save the realm from monsterkind!

Unfortunately, her companions include a drunken knight with a fractured personality, an elf obsessed with hunting and firearms, and a goblin healer whose desire for power grows with every slain God-Beast's power he consumes.

Someone has to save the world...

Even if this crew barely qualifies.

Game Overview 

A story-rich single-player JRPG featuring strategic turn-based combat, handcrafted exploration, deep progression, and brutal boss encounters.

Maps/Size: 
Explore over 90 handcrafted locations including towns, dungeons, world maps, inns, hidden areas, and dangerous wilderness.

Combat: 
Master deep tactical combat featuring over 200 abilities, 100 status effects, cooldown management, armor and spell resistances, dodge, bleeding, stuns, instant death, and countless enemy mechanics. Every encounter demands careful planning, not just stronger equipment alone.

Nightfall and The Undead

The undead become stronger, more numerous, and far deadlier.

Rest at campsites (if you have enough wood) to recover or skip the dangerous night...if you dare.
A brutal dark fantasy adventure featuring mature themes, violence, strong language, and difficult choices.

Are you ready to save a dying world?

...Because there's a good chance you'll be the one who destroys it instead.

Classes

Once assembled, your four-member party will feature five distinct classes alongside a powerful summoned flesh golem. Customize your team by purchasing spells from shops to fill gaps in your strategy and tailor your gameplay to your preferred style, but be careful of the weapon requirements of specific skills and limitations of mana.

Flaymancer - Uses rogue-like attacks to deal massive dmg to target causing bleeding.(Also studied Golemancy and uses 20 flesh to summon a formidable golem named Drippy when in dire need)

Markswoman - Uses firearms and explosives to deal heavy damage and inflict status effects on enemies. Lucy has had some rough time as a child and shares no love for animals.

Knight-errant - A banished knight with a grim past who has sworn to protect you and will sacrifice himself to defend his allies. He uses heavy armor, shields, and has abilities which allow him to bolster defense/taunt/and stun

Bloodzerker - This character disregards safety and focuses on inflicting brutal damage as if his life depends on it. The Grimlock does massive damage and heals off the damage dealt. He also starts with 0 mana and sacrifices his own life to increase his power & perform devastating blows. Due to Grimlock's nature, he is immune to light based effects including heals from his fellow members. 

Sorceror - Highly magic based and uses healing/cleansing spells to restore the party. Is also the major spell damage user of the group so choose wisely when you prioritize your damage over your healing sustainment of your team.

GOLEM SUMMON

                                                                    DRIPPY

Erica's golem summon has incredible resilience and power. You must collect 20 skins from battle drops in order to summon him, and while he brings devastation....his time is limited. 

Quest system

A quest system is implemented to keep the players targets of revenge in mind and highlights the main quest only. There are hidden quest, secret treasures, and clues for legendary weapons and armor scattered throughout Strifestav which would greatly aid you in journey if you choose to seek them out. These hidden events are not tracked on a quest log. Due to this loose guidance it gives the game a less linear feel, but ultimately specific things must be accomplished or killed to increase progression.

Contains

This game is created with RPG MAKER MV and is compatible with Mouse/Keyboard(I also added ASDW controls), and Xbox type controller features along with Steam Deck devices. (When the user is playing with a controller, move the mouse cursor off-screen for a better gaming experience.) The game also uses many JavaScript addons by Yanfly/Terrax/TheUnproPro to include Battle Engine Core/Quest Journal/Shop Menu Core/and many others.

This purchase includes the Windows PC version of the game Ericanskinsmonsters.

This game contains a large variety of music/sound/audio tracks by Eric Black, RPG Maker MV,  Karugamo, and other artist

Artwork by Eric Black, Machaela Black, RPG Maker MV, Tyler Warren, Hibiki Katakura, Andy Chen, Dream Circle, finalbossblues, Plueschkatze, and REFMAP

FAQ - Game Length? - Currently avg playtime is estimated to be 15-20 hrs. This number may massively get longer depending on the player.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some visual assets, including the title screen and Steam library artwork, were created with AI-assisted tools and then edited by the developer. Character portraits and sprites were created using RPG Maker MV's built-in character generator. Some maps were initially generated using RPG Maker's map generation tools and then manually modified. No AI-generated or procedural content is created during gameplay.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains cartoon violence, fantasy violence, mild profanity, depictions of alcohol use, and minor horror elements including monsters and brief jump scares. Some characters wear revealing clothing, but there is no nudity or explicit sexual content.