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About This Game

Encounters

While exploring the overworld and dungeons you will periodically be ambushed by creatures who materialize out of the ground. If you fail to evade them before they sink back into the ground you will enter combat! Some creatures that appear on the map may be smaller or larger. The combat initiated by touching a smaller creature is more likely to have fewer enemies than a larger creature.

You might also encounter a fairy instead, who will gift you a random bonus. This can be a small item, some extra gold, or an HP or MP restore.

Combat

Destiny Spire features an active time battle system. During combat each character can attack with their weapon, special skills, or use items as soon as their speed gauge fills up. You can attack with any character at any time as long as their speed gauge is full, or you can leave them on standby to take emergency action, like performing a heal, when needed.

But be careful! Enemies won’t wait for you and will also attack as soon as their speed gauge is full. You’ll need your wits and reflexes to survive!

Attacks will never miss by random chance but an attack can miss if you select an empty target or attempt to attack an enemy while they’re attacking. Be sure to pay attention and not rush! You can also toggle the speed gauges to fill more quickly to reduce waiting time. For accessibility, you can also set the battle speed to half or double speed to suit your play style.

You’ll also need to be careful managing your items. Each character holds their own items so if they fall during battle you won’t be able to access them. Items can only trade hands outside of combat.

Story

You begin your journey as the envoy to the king of Rumalea kingdom. The four kingdoms of the world are coming together to negotiate peace for the first time since their founding. Just as you set off you seem to be met with obstacles at every turn. Could someone be trying to sabotage the peace negotiations?

As you progress on your quest, you'll have to follow clues and dive into mysteries of the past to piece together what’s going on and whose behind it all. One thing's for sure, things go deeper than you could have ever imagined.

Traits

Every couple of levels, when not learning new skills, your characters will also be able to acquire traits. Traits offer small perks that activate automatically in certain situations. There are nearly 90 traits in total and each class has a specific pool of traits they can acquire. When leveling up you will be presented with a random selection of 4 of these traits to choose from.

Trait abilities can range from getting an attack bonus when using a certain weapon or element type, having a small chance to stun enemies with certain attacks, improving heal spells, special effects when using items, and many more. Traits will help your party members feel more personalized and create different experiences on subsequent play throughs.

Beginning Your Quest

You'll begin your quest by answering a series of questions from the king to determine your class. Before you leave, you'll be allowed to recruit 3 additional party members of any class. Up to 8 characters can be recruited in total but you can only bring 4 with you at a time.

We've tested many combinations of party members to make sure any team is viable, but some teams might pose more challenges than others. We suggest recruiting a well balanced party. You can select from these classes:

Rangers are quick and decent in both physical and magical attributes

Wizards may be weak, but they boast the most powerful of magic attacks

Barbarians make up what they lack in magical attributes with brute strength

Monks stand well against magic attacks and offer healing powers

Archers are quick and decent in attack and defense, though they are somewhat lacking in magical attributes

Mystics' magic is somewhat less powerful than wizards, though they can better hold their own without magic

Paladins are not quite as strong as barbarians but display some magical attributes

Bird Masters are decent in all attributes

Features

• About 30 hours of gameplay

• Over 200 different enemies to encounter

• Over a dozen dungeons to complete on your quest

• Explore an open overworld, dungeons, towns, and castles of the world

• Retro RPG experience full of secrets to discover

• 8 character classes to choose from

• Nearly 90 different traits your characters can learn as they level up, which you can pick from to create more personalized characters

• Accessibility options such as increasing or decreasing the rate of enemy appearance

Controls

All controls can be remapped in game but these are the defaults:

Keyboard:

• Select / Search: A

• Cancel / Open Status Screen: S

• Map / Toggle Battle Speed: D

• Options / Pause Battle: Q

• Move: Arrow Keys

Controller (Xbox layout):

• Select / Search: X

• Cancel / Open Status Screen: A

• Map / Toggle Battle Speed: RT (R2)

• Options / Pause Battle: Start

• Move: Joystick or D-pad

You can also perform a quick reset at any time by holding the Select, Cancel, Map, and Option keys for 2 seconds. This returns you to the title page without saving.

Current State of Development 

UPDATE: The game is completed but we just transferred it into a new engine and need to make sure everything is still working correctly. We also decided to add some new features and content to the game. The demo is currently in review and coming soon.