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About This Demo

A BL Ethical Gacha with Sentient Dragons Who Also Date Each Other!

You've bonded with a dragon and escaped the polluted wastelands. Now you just need to survive life in the Sky Nation that owns you.

Play the Demo Game of Dragon Riders: a story-driven BL visual novel hybrid with romance, card battles, team-building, and gacha-style unlocks set in a world of stolen dragons and political secrets.

Wishlist to be Notified of the Demo Launch!

Gacha Without Microtransactions

Spin for dragons, riders, and cards using credits earned organically by reading the visual novel and playing the card battler. 

• No Paid Pulls or Premium Currency

• No Grinding For Credits or Waiting Days for Credits to Renew

• No Freemium 'Pay to Win' or 'Real Money' Stores

• NO MICROTRANSACTIONS!

The Dragon Riders Demo has 9 (of 21) Dragons/Riders to Win, and Each Have Decks of up to 10 (of 25) Different Cards!  

From Trash Heaps to Dragon's Wings

You play as Chance, an Ashford runaway surviving in the poisoned wastelands beneath Aetherium’s shining sky cities. When the Skyhelm Military forces him into the Dragon Trials, he bonds with Nightscale: a massive, sentient dragon with missing memories and secrets everyone seems desperate to hide.

Their bond offers freedom, safety, and a life Chance never thought possible—until he realizes Skyhelm may be another kind of cage.

Does he accept his prison and couple with another rider so his dragon can have a mate? Or is he coupling with the best dragon rider to escape with? For this demo preview...he just needs to get his bearings.

Meet the Love Interests Who'll Shape Your Future In the Full Game

Get acquainted with a cast of male riders and learn their hidden agendas. Each want you and Nightscale to pick him and his dragon to partner with, but you must tread carefully. 

• Warner - The kind, veteran, team leader who's fiercely loyal to Skyhelm. His dragon bond was his salvation.

• Fangu - The quirky, loveable, cat-boy and his goofball bird dragon who have been stolen from their home nation.

• Sabaste - The refined exiled prince of an enemy territory with a dragon who's losing his mind.

• Komano - Your beefy bff from Ashford has been here a while--and doesn't seem to be holding together very well.

Sentient Dragons Date One Another

When you date a rider, your dragons date each other.

The psychic bond you share with your dragon means a four-way bond is formed.  Rider dates rider and dragon dates dragon. 

Dragons are eager to find a mate, and you're eager to make your soul-bonded dragon happy. 

Turn-Based Strategy Where You Build the Best Dragon Team!

• Fine tune your dragon team to maximize Dragon Class effectiveness: Fire, Ice, Light Magic, Earth Magic, or Brawler.

• Optimize your team each time you unlock more powerful riders and dragons.

• Build your deck with stronger cards you win in the gacha

• Design the best hand possible for each dragon

• Feed your dragons the different foods you earn to level them and increase their power stats

The more characters you unlock, the more story episodes become available!

A Lore-Rich, Urban Fantasy World

The Verdant Coalition, Icehelm, The Pyrelands, The Mystic Octave, each nation has their own breed of native dragon--except one.  Aetherium placed progress ahead of environmental protection.  The result is that the most powerful nation has the fewest dragons.  

Now that dragons have become the ultimate war machines, Aetherium does what it must to maintain its military dominance--no matter who they must crush beneath their boots.

And yet, some dragons come to Aetherium for refuge from their even more terrible nations.  

Chance is getting his first taste of geopolitics in a country that prefers their population to stay ignorant.  The more he learns about his world, the more terrible his situation becomes.

Enjoy a Guiltfree Gacha!

• Addictive BL Visual Novel Saga

• Sentient Dragon Soul-Bounding

• Card-Based Battles

• Deck Building and Team Management

• Gacha-Style Unlocks with No Microtransactions

• Intro to Four Love Interest Routes

• 9 (of 21) Dragon/Riders Pairs to Unlock with 10 (of 25) Cards Possible Each

• Political Intrigue, Class Conflict, and Mysteries to Unravel!

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Dragon Riders takes place in a dystopian world with repression, poverty, factory enslavement, and totalitarianism.

This is a 'gacha' game demo without microtransactions or any in-game real-money transactions. You play the gacha to unlock characters and their visual novel story routes.

Only in-game credits can be used, and are generously earned organically through the visual novel and card battler mechanics. No real-money gambling is possible.