Planned Release Date: 2026

About This Game

UNIQUE RPG GAME

Dream City Fugitive represents a unique approach to RPG game with 3D pre-rendered art in top-down perspective city scale open world environment, deep life-sim gameplay integration and heavy focus on visual novel style of storytelling. The game interaction is performed using point and click interface but there is option to interact the game with on screen direction pads or physical keyboard.

FOCUS ON SINGLE CHARACTER

You're playing as a single character throughout the game. You have the option to choose from 6 preset characters at the start of the game. Each character has their own unique abilities, skills bonuses and clothes. A large part of the game is about earning experience points to improve skill points. More skill points means becoming more effective in doing things. There are 20 skills which can be categorized into combat, tycon, muse and analytical. With a large selections of skills, it's always a wise idea to specialize in only a few skills.

CITY SCALE OPEN WORLD

The game takes place in a city on a small island where you can have freedom to explore the whole island. The city is divided into 9 districts with more than 50 places to visit. However, there are a few places that are only accessible after you made certain progress in the game such as fight club and safe house.

LIFE-SIM GAMEPLAY

You have to monitor energy, hunger, health, morale and hygiene bar at all times. Neglecting any of the bars could jeopardize your effectiveness in performing day to day life. Fortunately, these bars are easy to be taken care of due to close proximity of many places in the game.

There are a lot of job opportunities if you know where to look. You can take part-time jobs at the restaurants to earn side income. At some point (after fugitive problem has been solved), you have option to apply for a full-time job at ad agency, law firm, modelling agency or fashion firm. You can dedicate a significant time to build the career. It's possible to get promoted all the way to the top as CEO.

There are plenty of ways to earn money without you working for people. You can buy a fishing rod from a guy and use it to fish at any 9 different fishing spots throughout the island. You can then sell the catch to the chef at sushi restaurant for some money. If you don't mind to get dirty, you can scavenge trash cans all over the island to look for scraps. You can then sell the scraps at the back of pawn shop for some money. You can walk around city park or forest to forage tree stumps for mushrooms. These mushrooms can be sold to villagers for some money.

Initially you're given a crummy place to stay but once you've dealt with the fugitive problem, you can rent to live at flat, apartment or condominium. You can buy 20 varieties of furniture or equipment to make your new home more functional and unlock more activities.

Even though the island is small, you can buy scooter and car to move faster between places. There are plenty of bus stops throughout the island to call for taxi or use bus service. Paying for taxi serves as fast travel to move between places. You can use free bus to move between districts.

At some point, you're given lots of cash. You can invest the cash to buy jewellery and company stocks. They will appreciate or depreciate in value at the start of month based on economic condition. The economic condition changes every month so it is possible to make money when they appreciate in value. You can then sell them to earn some profit.

VISUAL NOVEL STORYTELLING

There are more than 20+ quests. Lots of quests revolves around combat but there are a few quests which requires your deduction logic in order to solve it. The game has branching plots at early part of the game which means the full story can only be experienced through 2 separate playthroughs.

The story is presented through lots of dialogue in kinetic format of visual novel style. With hardly any choice in dialogue, this allows for more emphasis on main character characterization and personality. Throughout the game, you can feel the constant struggle faced by the main character.

TURN-BASED COMBAT

Combat is resolved through turn-based format which has its own interface. For most combats, you'll only fight a single opponent but there are several situations where you have to fight multiple opponents. During these situations, other characters might join you as allies to fight these opponents.

Even though combat outcome is based on random chance, skill point can still play a heavy role to affect the outcome. As you're improving your skill points, you'll notice you'll hit oppoenent more often. So grinding your skill points can help to make future combats easier to handle.

There are 22 types of opponents which can be categorized based on their tier. You should be able to handle Tier 0 and 1 opponents easily. While Tier 2 opponents can provide some challenge, Tier 3 opponents have been designed to provide serious challenge.