Runa | Official Announcement Trailer | April 16 on Kickstarter

[Bishop89]

Steam page
kickstarter page

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTtwubaAS5o

About This Game

Runa is an adventure game inspired by modern and classic JRPG, with turn-based battle system, social links and a story-rich science fantasy world. Promising to keep intact what makes classic JRPG games fun, Runa also features elemental puzzles and base building, as well as minigames like farming, fishing and cooking.

Runa is set in a world in which runas symbolize the technological advancements of an ancient civilization. Whether for domestic use or combat, the use of runas is key. Only some people, known as adepts, are able to fully control them and unleash their true powers.

• Explore a huge world

The world of Runa is a colorful and vibrant fantasy one, but also full of mysteries and sci-fi elements. Follow the journey of a group of adventurers who, driven by their unique motivations, find themselves traveling the world and unraveling all its hidden secrets.

• Fight turn-based battles

The "Elemental Break System" is a battle system inspired by JRPG classics: turn-based battles with ordered turns, elemental affinities and strategical approach. With 4 active and a total of 7 party members, that can be swapped anytime -no turn wasted-, group ultimates, and a lot of powerful skills!

• Relationships and romance

Date different characters individually to strengthen your relationships with them. If you're trying to find that special someone in the world of Runa, you'll have more than 15 romance options, including same-gender relationships.

• Solve elemental puzzles

Solve a wide variety of elemental riddles, with 7 different elements and 12 elemental skills at your disposal. Engage in quick puzzles in both the overworld and cities, and navigate dungeons designed around unique puzzle combinations.

• Base building and minigames

Build your own base in the city of Enyth by creating and enhancing buildings according to your preferences. Recruiting certain characters or completing important quests unlock the creation of some buildings, including: Residences, Canteen, Dojo, Lab, Farm, Runa Research Center, Antique Shop...

• And more...

• Weather & Time changes
• Day and Night cycle
• Mixed calendar system
• Elaborate dialogue system with choices
• No silent protagonist
• Elaborate quests
• Hand-painted minimaps

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[Niosai]

Art style gives me a healthy mixture of BotW and Xenoblade vibes, I really dig it.

 

[Lightsong]

Kinda sounds too good?

Can you choose the gender of your MC? With romance options that's a must have.

 

[CharlesAznable]

This actually looks really good? Any info on the devs?

 

[Sinah]

This actually looks really good? Any info on the devs?

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The only developers named fennec studio i could find are from Brazil: https://www.fennecgamestudio.com/
But i'm not really sure it's them since they don't mention the game anywhere on their site or social media.

Edit: It's not them they are called "Fennec studio" and not "Fennec game studio" like the Brazilian team, anyway it's a 3 person team from Madrid, Spain:

@RunaFelixey
Director | environment designer | lead artist | co-game designer
@RunaKukiya
Programmer | co-game designer
@draphier
3D modeling | 3D animation

 

[Aiii]

Sure you can get my money if and when the game comes out and proves to be good.

 

[Busaiku]

Why does the Kickstarter say it's from Madrid, if Fennec is Brazilian?

 

[Sinah]

Why does the Kickstarter say it's from Madrid, if Fennec is Brazilian?

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It's not both studios just have a similar name the Brazilian studio is called "Fennec game studio" and the Spanish studio are just "Fennec studio".
It's a bit confusing not sure which studio had the name first though both seem to be relatively new indie start ups.

 

[MayorSquirtle]

"More than 15 romance options."

Yeah, to me that just suggests the writing will be paper thin. Game is pretty though.

 

[cowbanana]

I'll wait and see. I think I'm done with Kickstarters. Still waiting for the last small games I backed years ago. Still getting progress reports on those, but they went way beyond their estimated time frame, like they always do...

 

[Madden]

Seems incredibly ambitious for a team of 3 people, good luck to them but I'd treat this as more of a donation and if the game comes out and is anything like the concept it will be a pleasant surprise.

 

[Yazuka]

Can't watch the clip right now, but from the gif's it looks really nice.
I'm interested.

 

[Dandy]

Looks pretty, but my days of backing random Kickstarters are over.

 

[Servbot24]

That seems way too ambitious, setting off alarm bells for sure. The GIFs are pretty though.

 

[AerialAir]

It looks really good, but it's a 3-person team who never released a game before, so I'm going to be very cautious about it.

 

[Drakhyrr]

Edge of Eternity vibes. Looks good at first, but isn't polished and reviews turned out mixed at best.

 

[PimentaGui]

This game was announced in 2021 and since then it has received bits of information through twitter

It's being developed in Unreal 5 btw

Hope the kickstarter is a success, will try to support

 

[Mentalist]

Edge of Eternity was another Europe-developed indie JRPG from Kickstarter and it turned out okay, I think?

So this has a chance.

 

[PimentaGui]

The kickstarter is live

Initial goal is €45k


View: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/runarpg/runa

 

[Madden]

45,000 euro for this and a 3 person team? Yikes, I fear that the only thing this is going to deliver on is lots of drama as deadlines slip and communication stops. Best of luck to them but this like the sort of super ambitions title people kept shooting out during the early days of Kickstarter which would burn out.

 

[SunshinePuppies]

why are all the characters in the portraits pouting

 

[Disclaimer]

Looks beautiful, but sounds way too ambitious. They need to trim down a lot of that extraneous fluff in the planned features. Does your indie RPG really need farming and base building etc.? Does it really need 15+ romance options when you could make a fraction of that be more fulfilling?

Hope it's successful though.

 

[Brazil]

This has Kickstarter bloat overreach written all over it.

 

[WildArms]

Artstyle is great but man... those combat animations are jank (and the font for the combat floating text could be better as well). Honestly, if those are my only complaints than the devs can consider that a good thing. At least one of those, I'm sure, is pretty easy to address. xD

 

[Yam's]

Yeah this is way too ambitious for a 3 people team. Hope they can prove me wrong, and if they do deliver I'll be there to support the game, but the scope is too big. Mini-games, base building, farming, complex dialogues systems and so many romances? Bigger teams already struggle to deliver that many features.

 

[erekiddo]

Looks like it'll meet its goal. Around $2k to go with 29 days left. Word of mouth blew this one up.

Sure you can get my money if and when the game comes out and proves to be good.

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But basically this. I've dodged a few bullets.

 

[Rhaknar]

looks like that one was on gamepass (or still is I don't know), I forget the name. But was also a indie 3rd person jrpg, and was pretty shit.

 

[viral]

looks like that one was on gamepass (or still is I don't know), I forget the name. But was also a indie 3rd person jrpg, and was pretty shit.

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Edge of Eternity? That's the first one I thought of. Never played it, but I know it got pretty mixed reviews. Not that it matters, since this is a different dev team, but it does look similar.

 

[Rhaknar]

Edge of Eternity? That's the first one I thought of. Never played it, but I know it got pretty mixed reviews. Not that it matters, since this is a different dev team, but it does look similar.

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that's the one :)

 

[Kyuuji]

Went for the early access. I usually like to have one ticking by in the background whether it's good or a disaster lol. With Mika and The Witch's Mountain nearing the end, time for a new one.

 

[Kschreck]

This looks really good. Like everything I read and seen about this one. I think I will contribute too this one and take a chance. Looks great! Seems like a lot of their stretch goals have already been met as well.

 

[PimentaGui]

New stretch goals got added including Emi Evans from Nier Replicant as a guest vocalist and voice acting