Yumeko’s Castle (Pacifica)
| Yumeko’s Castle | |
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| Genre(s) | Dungeon crawler RPG |
| Developer(s) | Seikokashi Software |
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| First release | Yumeko’s Castle November 4, 2011 |
| Latest release | Yumeko’s Castle VI: The Garden of Ice April 18, 2022 |
Yumeko’s Castle (Pelinese: 夢子の城, Yumeko no Shiro) is a series of Pelinese dungeon crawler role-playing video games developed by Seikokashi Software for the PC, Setako Fold2, and Fold3 platforms. Its first game was released as a launch title of the Setako Fold2 handheld console in 2011 to positive reviews, and it has since added five more main series titles and a single spin-off. The series is credited with popularizing the dungeon crawler RPG genre in the Pelinese handheld market after modest commercial successes by spiritual predecessors like Torchlight on the original Fold.
Development work on the original Yumeko’s Castle game commenced in 2009 after Seikokashi Software was granted early access to the software development kit for the then-in-development Fold2 console. The dungeon crawler format, then popular in Pelinai only on PC, was selected early in development due to the modest but promising successes of similar games developed for the original Fold by both Seikokashi and other developers; game director Akira Ribaki stated in an interview with Hoshikara in 2019 that the development team hoped to fully harmonize the genre and portable console platform by making Yumeko’s Castle more friendly to the usage patterns of handheld systems, particularly by streamlining gameplay and allowing for faster start/stop cycles than preceding titles for PC and the Fold.
Common elements
Gameplay
Games
Main series
| Name | Date of first release | ||
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| Pelinai | SPE (Bailtem/Bareland) | SPW (Cordilia/Crabry) | |
| Yumeko’s Castle | November 4, 2011 | July 8, 2014 | August 17, 2014 |
| Yumeko’s Castle is the first game in the series, with a 2011 release in Pelinai and worldwide releases in the SPE and SPW regions in 2014. It was developed as a launch title for the Setako Fold2 handheld console and a complement to Seikokashi’s home console-based Hyper-Radiance series. Notes:
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