Diorama Break (AppID: 3932580)

Welcome to DIORAMA BREAK! In this special JRPG, you must directly guide the hero on a journey to change the world (whether he likes it or not). Marshal your wits and fight your way through tactical turn-based battles and awkward conversations alike. Or don't. See what happens...

Features

• Speak directly to the hero. They will respond in kind.

• An innovative turn-based grid-based time-and-space-based tactical battle system (based).

  • Actions take place over multiple turns, with startup, active time, and recovery time.

  • Both Player and Enemy units plan their actions ahead of time then execute them simultaneously.

  • Time your moves carefully to slip past your opponents’ defenses.

  • Inspired by fighting game concepts such as footsies, frame data, and attack interruption.

• Expertly composed world-class hand-crafted traditionalist pixel environments and animations. Amazing stylistic achievements such as:

  • Modern procedurally generated visual effects and shaders (that nonetheless remain tastefully traditionalist)

  • Stylized, palletized light and shadow

  • anime

  • NO MIXELS

  • 4K visual novel scenes...?

• Intuitive yet deep character customization for combat. Equip weapons to gain new actions in combat; combine equipment to create unique synergies. Leveling up lets you choose between unique, mutually exclusive passive bonuses, rather than simple stat boosts.

• A narrative with layers.

• Interject during dialogue to make your opinion known.

• A genre-hopping soundtrack that reacts to gameplay.

• Explore varied and fantastical biomes and settlements on a miniature continent.

• Accessible controls and gameplay. Can be played with only a mouse, no action-based challenges.

• High quality software backend; built on top of a custom 2D game engine for maximum performance and ease-of-use.

• Unlimited window scaling.