Let's take an adventure to the origin of the ancient goldenland, Emerald. Start an epic journey to find the great runes, lost stories and reverse our broken destiny. Journey of Rune is an anime turn-based CRPG game with adventures and friendships. Just create your own story whatever you like!
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Why Early Access?

Journery of Rune is an huge project with a lot of complex systems and in-game resources, and it gonna takes a long time for a few people like us to perfect it. While we finish the basic gameplay, we hope to get some feedback from our early access as we go forward. It is important for us to catch our gamers' voices, those help us to correct some mistakes we make during our game design, and our goal is to give our gamers much better gaming experiences for sure.
Of course according to the interests of different gamers, we also can adjust our development plan in time, maybe change any gameplay or enrich them.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“About 2 years.
We already have a basically completed development plan and we update some new content every once in a while. We may change some developed contents based on feedback anytime, so our exact release date is not determined yet.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The plan is to build up to 5 chapters of the main story till our final version completed, those include a complete CRPG adventure:
A capital city, 2 important towns, and several ancient underground ruins are set in this wide world named Emerald Province.
A completed main story with different optional routes, several companions with their own stories, and a large number of side stories and adventures for enriching this world.
An elemental magic system consisting of 9 ElementalRunes, dozens of StructuralRunes and Magic Knowledge.
4 main races with several subspecies; Each race has different appearances, specialties and adventure experiences.
An exciting adventure experience with collection of equipment, props and supplies; A variety of ways to play such as world environment interaction, character interaction, collection and production, criminal operation, camp construction, etc.

Based on the feedback during the early access, the content above may change slightly, and we will update the content here in time.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The basic content of this fantasy world has been largely completed, and the 1st chapter from main story is released that includes:
A town full of stories and the adventure starts here. The game content for the 1st chapter takes about 2 to 3 hrs.
2 companions with unique stories, as well as many side stories and adventures during the exploration.
3 ElementalRunes, 6 StructuralRunes and a basic rune system provide gamers a way to build up their own spell combos.
2 main races with 5 subspecies; A part of the character creation options have been made so far.
Dozens of equipment, props and supplies are set in the world for collection.
A basic CRPG adventure gameplay, with environment interactions, character relationships, collection and production systems, and gamers' own camp for rest.

We will update some of above in time during our future development.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Our plan is to raise the price of the game appropriately when the final version is released. We have no plans to increase the price during the early access so far.
Once the price increase decision is made , we will issue an announcement for notification 3 to 6 months in advance.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We plan to collect feedbacks through our QQ groups and steam communities during the early access, and also we will take a look at gamers' opinions on social medias and our emails any time. We will continue to improve the gameplay content in the future, combining our basic design and ideas from gamers to Make this game a more popular CRPG.”
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About This Game

About Journey of Rune

You have been chosen by this powerful rune book and made a contract of destiny with the mystery fairy Meira. This book has been lost for ages, it ran off its power and fell into pieces. To discover the ancient secrets, you have to start your journey to Emerald, where the story began, in search of the legendary GoldenRune.
However, when you take your step into this adventure... Secrets, murder and conspiracy appear everywhere. Follow the glory or plunge into the storm, even seek salvation from other runes, the fate of this world is in your hands.

Journey of Rune inspired by CRPGs and developed with anime style, to create wonderful fantastic adventures at our best.

To be the one of the story

Now you stand with this powerful rune book, the Goldenland, which forged GoldenRune dominated the world in centuries. Starting with one traveler who has fallen into a conspiracy, takes the lost power, gets new friendships, and then walks on the front line against the Chaos. You are falling into this mysterious storm, and every choice you make is very important.
Pick up one of the ready-made roles, or customize your own character as yourself. Humans, elves, dwarves, half-human - each race has multiple subspecies with completely different talents. In addition, you can customize your character even more with their backgrounds, specifics and traits. Keep your idea, so that is what makes you really unique!

Step into the fantasy world

Emerald is an ancient fantastic land contains by different styles of scenery and historical ruins. There are not only wild fields and villages, but also beautiful forests and canyons, magnificent cities and bays. Even in the most mysterious places underground, there may be many dungeons attract adventurers to seek and explore. At this time, the rune book will guide you to this golden land, the place where the story began.
Leap, teleport, detect, sneak - this diverse world is full of creatures, interactions, stories, secrets and treasures. Just try different ways to explore and solve any problems you met! There will never be only one way to reach your final target... up to how many choices in your pocket for sure.

Make friends and build up your party

Travel alone is risky, but bringing partners into your team will make your adventure much fun. Along the way, you will meet a bunch of people with their own stories, trying to build dynamic friendships with them would be interesting. Some of them live with special destinies... Even though they are not human-like, they have their own personalities as well and will respond to your choices and actions in a real manner. Friendships, loves, exploitation, breakups, betrayals - what happens between your relationships is unpredictable, and your choices may determine all the things there.
Journey of Rune will also support Co-op gameplay mode, up to four. Go gather some buddies to join your adventure team and enjoy this fantastic story together!

Gain the power of runes

The runes are the key to magic power in this world.
Therefore, the spells are created by runes; they will provide you many ways to enjoy adventures and explorations. Combinations of 9 ElementalRunes and dozens of StructuralRunes may create hundreds of spells, adding some MagicalKnowledge can further enhance spells as well. Spells of different elements clash on each other would produce special reactions like the flame burns the shield of thorns, the shock paralyzes the metal enemy and the crystalline beams seal frozen enemies... Why not try to throw more spells at your target and see what funny stuff is gonna happen?

Write down your own adventures

While the adventure begins, an bloody attack of madness walks with you, the heavy fog covers the sky and limits your sight. You have to go all the way forward to retrieve the lost rune power and fight against Chaos. Anything you do will determine what power you gain, what allies you gather, and what future you bring to this land.
You will also face to many choices, from whether to water a parched field to which rune to follow as your creed. You can stand by what people think is right, or unleash your greed inside your head, but remember that any choice you have made any time, returns its own echo.
Explorations and adventures, relationships and choices, all the stories are unique and only exist because of you.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Mild cartoon violence, including blood, fight, and death.
The game story may include swearing, terrifying scenes, looting and killing, suicide, etc.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or equivalent
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 20 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel Core i7-9700 or equivalent
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 40 GB available space
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