The game system itself is a mixture of J-RPG, point-and-click adventure, and turn-based combat system. Each character has two sets of points representing their health and sanity, when either one reaches to zero, it's game over. In the beginning of each run of the game you choose your character, and the Elder God that you will be trying to stop for that particular run. Game phase consists of going home, choose from a list of five quests ( In each run you have to solve five randomly chosen quests to get to the final location to stop the Elder God.). In between the quests you can head home to rest and replenish your health and sanity), and finally face the boss of that particular run. The amount of quests available is quite amazing, I have played five different runs so far and haven't seen too many repeated quests. Each quest has its own unique storyline and interactions. While in quest mode it plays like a hybrid of visual novel and point-and-click adventure. Each event happening in the game gives you two to three options to choose from, of which the game then compare you character's stats (strength, dex, per, etc ) and make a roll. If you succeed, you usually get a item or stats boot that will help you in game. If you fail at the roll, the game can take points away from your health/sanity, or destroys your item/penalizes your character stats. During gameplay, you get experiences. You can upgrade your character's stats each time you level up, during level up you can also choose what skill you want to give to the character you are playing. You can also get NPCs to join you to help you with your quests. Each NPC can have different special abilities that help you during the game. The art style is quite similar to the J-horror manga artist Ito Junji's style. Overall,if you like J-Horror, Lovecraftian genre, turn-based combat system, point-and-click adventure, and visual novel, and retro style graphic, you have to give this gem a try.
