Splintered
dotMake Studios · 2025 · RPG, Pixel Graphics, Turn-Based, JRPG, Retro
PC
Very Positive89% · 299
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About Splintered
A unique RPG where the villain randomizes the world with each defeat.
Start with a classic RPG experience! The enemy has attacked, your king is dead, and the sacred artifact of your kingdom has been stolen. It's up to you, the descendant of a legendary knight, to avenge your king and restore your kingdom's artifact to its rightful place. But victory is only the beginning!
Upon completing your quest, the villain sends the world into chaos, Splintering (randomizing) your homeworld and rolling back time. It's up to you to unravel these Splintered worlds. Items, towns, and equipment has all been misplaced and your enemies share traits and abilities in unpredictable ways. Complete these Splintered worlds to unlock new challenges, classes, and game modes while getting one step closer to the final showdown!
Features:
Start with a classic RPG experience! The enemy has attacked, your king is dead, and the sacred artifact of your kingdom has been stolen. It's up to you, the descendant of a legendary knight, to avenge your king and restore your kingdom's artifact to its rightful place. But victory is only the beginning!
Upon completing your quest, the villain sends the world into chaos, Splintering (randomizing) your homeworld and rolling back time. It's up to you to unravel these Splintered worlds. Items, towns, and equipment has all been misplaced and your enemies share traits and abilities in unpredictable ways. Complete these Splintered worlds to unlock new challenges, classes, and game modes while getting one step closer to the final showdown!
Features:
- Classic turn based combat. Use attacks, spells, and items to overcome your foes.
- Level up equipment to unlock a multitude of powerful abilities to define your playstyle.
- Mix and match equipment from 3 class archetypes (Paladin, Thief, Mage) with more to come!
- Encounter dozens of enemies that, when randomized, shuffle their traits and abilities to form new, unpredictable, challenges.
- Hunt enemies to unlock specialized passive talents and take your power to new heights.
- Adapt to the randomized world. Improvise, master new playstyles, and counter deadly enemy combinations to overcome the Splintering.
- Conquer challenges to unlock new game modes that drastically alter the game such as Roguelike Mode, Clairvoyance Mode, Instinct Mode, and more!
- Level up to learn 9 core spells that can be further enhanced by equipment in powerful ways!
- 8-bit retro styled art and audio for a classic experience (that's MOSTLY faithful to the era).
- Customize your favorite game modes and randomized settings to create your own flavor of endless fun.
- Unravel a story that begins as a classic tale of treachery and unfolds into one of mystery, secrets, and truths.
- Seamless in-game help feature. Telepathically communicate with your father for guidance if you get lost. (Note: Help feature is completely optional. Exploring and talking to NPCs will provide plenty of hints to complete the game without help.)
- Endless randomized seeds.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise this game as a nostalgic love letter to the original Dragon Quest, appreciating its retro aesthetic, engaging story progression, and replay value through challenges and randomizer modes. However, some find the experience wears thin by the midgame, with a few considering it barely worth the asking price despite its solid design and old-school appeal.
I you like Dragon Warrior OG, this game gives a nod to it with some neat twists.1 found this helpful
It's fine. By chapter 5 it had more than worn out its welcome, though. Probably barely worth the money, I guess?1 found this helpful
This is one of the few games I have made an attempt to get all achievements. Very good aesthetic, calling back to DQ1 on the NES with the towns and spells. The changes that occur throughout the main story make each playthrough interesting. Adding the Challenges and the Randomizer into the mix and you have a good game for the price. Much better DQ game than anything that has come out in the past decade.
That game scratched an old school RPG Itch i didnt know i needed to scratch. It,s a litteral love letter to the first Dragon Quest, with somewhat of a twist. I would definitely like to see a sequel, maybe on the longer side with more talents / gear to unlock over multiple chapters and playthroughs
Do you appreciate the old school grindy NES RPGs? Add a little bit of modern amenity, a dash of innovation with the randomizer and BAM here you are. Give it a try.
NEStalgic classic RPG.
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