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Alianza RTP

Random Fact: there are two cheatcodes for this game:

MONEYBAGS - Gives you 5000$ as starting money.
GIVMEWANZER - Gives you an overpowered starting panzer.

Final Verdict: this game is clearly an experiment, and it's not perfect at all: aside from the imperfect translation from the original spanish version (for example loot mention is in spanish even in the english version, but come on, this is not a tragedy), it is quite simple, linear and repetitive but not without its charm. For a 1-2 hours game it's pretty good, especially because it has many clever ideas and aspects that were probably limited by the time constraits. That's a pity, anyway it's still a playable game and a different experience from the usual fantasy adventures, and I would not mind at all a more modern and complex remake at all.

So Panzer was an interesting experiment, I know that some people may not like it, and others instead had fun with it and loved the aestetics (this Front Mission redux feel), like me... so I decided to set for a middle ground rating.

Monday, October 5, 2026

DEEP 8 by IndependentArt

The planets of the DEEP 8 universe are populated by different races like for example the mighty Droons with their green martialness, the furry Dominators, also called Summoners or the normally peace loving Dayigons, which is also the race, our protagonist Ramirez belongs too.

Ramirez might be the shyest individual, that you could ever encounter. Aside from being a social cripple, he’s a respectable fighter and reliable employee.
His female partner Meling is not a very pleasant companion. She’s barely talking to him and when she does, she usually does it in an insulting or humiliating way, which not really raises his confidence. Aside form being a real fury, Meling weilds a gigantic axe in battle, which enables her to crush any enemy they encouter.
Ramirez and Meling work for the emperor Vagnus of Antia. That is a big city on planet Lisarya, which is mostly populated by Dayigons.

For some weeks now, the people are very anxious, cause’ they seem to face a really great threat. They even have to fear the extinction of their race.
The Droons, allways known for martial behaviour seem to have set their mind to committing a genocide on the Dayigons. They used a weapon called Pluz-Cannon to vaporize several planets and raided others with ground forces. Now they are planning on destroying Lisarya as well with one big bang, but they ran out of the rare mineral Pluz. As soon as they find a new source for it, they would equip their cannon with it and blow up Lisarya immediately. Millions of Dayigons would be dust within a blink.

Deep 8 is a story driven sci-fi adventure/rpg with custom graphics and system: the game includes quicktime events, minigames and puzzles to make the adventure rather varied. The setting is original and this is a journey that takes places on many different planets and locations, including many quests and subquests.

Itch.io

Random Fact: the complete version includes both the english e german version in the same package. The language is selectable when starting the game. From 2023 this game was released as free to play.

Final Verdict: Deep 8 is an interesting game, that while not perfect has many interesting moments (including a section where you will be running around with a flamethrower! And battles between robots!) and a suggestive setting with various alien races and environments. In a certain sense this sci-fi setting reminds of Albion, an RPG released in 1996 by BlueByte Software, with the difference that here we'll be travelling between different planets. Combat is quite complex and pretty challenging, but grinding won't help much, a good strategy is surely more useful, but do not forget to look around for supplies and useful additional items. The only real problem I found were some jumps that required an exceptional (for me!) timing, anyway you can always re-try since they do not lead to Game Over, so it's not frustrating. Could have been worse!

In the end I find DEEP 8 to be an excellent product, with just some minor flaws but really engaging and well made.

Friday, September 11, 2026

Bounty Angel 2 by Sidewinder

It is the star year 2168. 50 years have passed since the Battle of Vulkan. The Resource Wars which once brought fire to the galaxy have since faded away into memory, and new Empires have arisen from the ashes. Throughout this, the strong continue to feed on the weak, and an uneasy peace is kept by a special group of bounty hunters, commonly known as “Angels.”

The new protagonist is Ericka Falken, pilot of the Valkyrie. Ericka will perform a series of missions (some are obligatory, others are optional) travelling between planets, hunt space pirates for money and upgrade her spaceship with the hard earned cash.

Bounty Angel 2 is another hybrid RPG/Visual Novel with a custom battle system, basically an upgraded version of the first game: it's a similar adventure Anya in the previous game, but there is s lot more of everything: more planets to visit, more locations, more spaceship upgrades, more Npcs. All actions are managed through the menus interface, exactly like in the first game. The combat is a little more complex, but there aren't mich changes aside for the expanded content and better graphics.

This game contains violence and adult themes that might not be suitable for some players.

Internet Archive

Random Fact: the game takes place many years after the first, and Anya Von Tannhauser, the pilot of the Nightbird from the first game is also briefly mentioned. Once again there will be three (the main protagonist and two others associates) the girls instrumental to the victory, even if, since this is a demo, the main quest ends with a cliffhanger.

Final Verdict: though this adventure ends with a cliffanger, it is longer and has more variety that the first one. I also liked the cast, especially the three protagonists (even if the blonde girl has a small role in the adventure). Graphically is a step up from the first adventure, and I overall liked the setting and the lore of the game. I don't know if this is easier than the first or playing the first has made me more cautious and skilled, anyway you doi not need to buy every upgrade to finish the story. That is a good story, because yes, this is first a visual novel with many cool parts, like the Council of the Smugglers (I liked that section!).

My only gripe is that some parts would have benefit of more explanations, I'm talking about combat but also some activities like the puzzle in the temple and the bomb that has to be defused... it's a trial and error, and maybe some less experienced player may have some problems with that (well, I had, but I managed to win forcing myself to understand the mechanics and win, so it can be done without sweating too much, no worries!). I also did not mind the use of generic black shapes for minor characters, like in tue first game, anyway the HUDs and the cutscenes are impressive considering that this game is made with Rm2k3!

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Bounty Angel by Sidewinder

Almost two millennia have passed since mankind escaped its dying homeworld, and built a new civilization among the stars. But nothing was learned and the mistakes that destroyed Lost Earth have been repeated a hundredfold. The denizens of the Milky Way now find themselves trapped in a brutal war for resources and survival. Millions of refugees flee for the relative safety of the Magellanic Cloud satellite galaxies.

The only known corridor is through an area of space known as the Magellanic Stream, though better known to its inhabitants as Hell's Gate. Pirates operate openly here, killing and enslaving thousands. Law and order is maintained by freelance bounty hunters, commonly known as Angels.

Anya Von Tannhauser is one of them, and she will have to form a squad to stop the menace that threatens the people of the Magellanic Stream.

Bounty Angel is a hybrid RPG/Visual Novel with a custom battle system and a bunch of FMVs I made in Blender. All actions are selected by the menus, the game uses a quite simple turn-based spaceship battle system. It's a fairly open game that includes a linear storyline and some optional, and in some case repeatable, sidequests.

Before even starting the game you have to decide two different things: the first is if you want to play at medium difficulty (that gives you limited money, and you have to earn the rest to buy upgrades and repair) or story mode (that gives you a ton of money so you can buy everything from the start). Then you have to choose if you want realistic characters or anime characters. This is just a cosmetic choice, by the way the realistic one just has the protagonist, and the anime version has only the named characters, all the rest are just black silhouettes.

This game contains violence and adult themes that might not be suitable for some players.

Internet Archive

Random Fact: this game was a submission for the 2018 Theme Roulette event on RMN, anyway it spawned a sequel, Bounty Angel 2 and even a sort of remake called Psi Dogs: Suns of Antares. Unfortunately the remake was planned, but never released.

Final Verdict: Bounty Angel is born from quite interesting concept, its only problem is that it was made for the Theme Roulette Challenge in 2018, so obviously it was made in a short time: the result is a mini-game and short visual novel that's quite good due to its originality and interesting plot, gameplay is simple but graphics are stunning and well recreates a gritty sci-fi setting. Likewise music, that is from some well known sources (like for example Baldur's Gate) is appropriate and the whole experience is good.

My only problem with this game is that there is not satisfying ending, not even a screen or ending slide, and that's something I felt missing (it's true that some old games of the past just wrote "congatulations, you win" and that's it!). The rest is not bad at all, it's something different from the usual rpg, and I am pretty sure that the developer with just some more time could provide an really bigger, refined, improved and more complex remake/sequel of this game, because it shows how much work went into narration, graphics and gameplay.

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Gulliver by GDSA team (russian)

A group of cosmonauts arrives to an unknown planet and meet some mysterious lifeforms. Unfortunately the encounter won't go as well as expected and the team will have to face lots of troubles.

Gulliver is a mini adventure that won't take more than 15 minutes to complete, however it's a short story that could technically be translated into a short horror tale, not much differently from other short games already posted here, such as Metamorphosis. The unusual part is that this game also contains battles, while most other horror adventures avoids them, uses only chase sections or real-time survival systems.

Well, please note that the game is very dark, violent and includes body horror.

Dowload Link

Random Fact: most of the creatures seems to be custom sprites made in the same style of the enemies in Huperternal-2005, however this may be a coincidence. The important thing is that the presence of giant women compared to the little cosmonauts is probably the reason why this game is called "Gulliver", recalling the realm of Brobdingnag visited by Lemuel Gulliver visits in Jonathan Swift's classic 1726 satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels.

Final Verdict: a really unsettling and dark short adventure with peculiar graphics and a really powerful atmosphere. It's very short but also pretty unique, the alien planet is really a memorable place.

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Rainbow Nightmare - Chapter 1 & Rainbow Nightmare - Libra by TFT aka TwinFoxTails

The Neon Empire is a theatre of a war between the humans and the machines. The humans are ruled by the aristocracy and have several non-human allies like typical fantasy dwarves, kitarians, oak-people and others. The humans have soldiers but also sorcerers called Tarot Mages. On the other side there are robots and machines, that instead rely on hi-tech weaponries and huge automatons.

The game starts with a trio of soldiers of the human army, Myth, Granin and Renders (respectivel a dawrf, a human and a kitarian) fighting a desperate battle against a huge machine. Then, lost in the wasteland they befriend a robot named Bolt and get a vehicle to reach the Neon Empire Capital, but the machines are chasing them.

The prologue ends and we start playing as Wagen, a recently promoted soldier, after he was the only survivor of a bandit ambush. Captain Charnetski assigns him to a team that has to investigate Zakran Pass, where a noble and his son were ripped apart by some monster. He will be aided in this investigation by Sebastian Rosengale, an exceptional swordsman member of the Archilles elite, and by Shield Ninja, a boorish assassin.

Rainbow Nightmare Chapter 1 is a collection of different episodes during the war, exploring various characters during the war. The game is mostly an adventure game where the most impressive aspects are graphics and cutscenes. There is combat, but it's super-simple since there is no inventory management, nor consumables or equipment. Most characters have two or three special abilities, often one is a healing skill or a TP recovering skill, and the TP are the "tactical points" used to perform some special moves, basically the equivalent of mana in fantasy games. That's it, and combat encounters are usually pretty easy.

Wagen in the base has a little fetch quest that involves a character named TFT. Yes, that's TwinFoxTails. And among the soldiers at the base there are also some other Rpgmaker developers you may already know.

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Random Fact: the game had a spin-off called Rainbow Nightmare - Libra, that focuses on a particular squad operating in a corner of the Neon Empire, but only a prologue was released, anyway see below for this game.

Final Verdict: the first Rainbow Nightmare game is pretty simple but still charming, since it presents many different characters and places, and all are realized with a charming style that seems to belong to a comic book. Moreover the dark setting of a war between humanoid races and automatons is probably unique among the Rpgmaker games.

EXTRA - Rainbow Nightmare - Libra: Also (apparently) called "RN short stories", it is a prologue that starts with a letter of Duram, the new squad leader of the Rudhira team to his fiancee, Lisanne. Duram is unfortunately stuck with Priss the Medic and Lutwig the flamboyant noble, two troopers that hate him, when the machines of the Neon Empire attack. Things are going badly when Lutwig remembers a teleportation spell, but being an incompetent fool, it also mixes it with a polymorph spell! The day after the trio gets assigned a scientist they have to escort, and guess what? The scientist is Lisanne, Duram's fiancee. But the machines, lead by Captain Marlwulf, attack the place...

The game uses basically the simple combat system of the first game and focuses on the story, although this time with a single protagonist and his squad. There are in fact no separated scenarios like in the first game, even if a bad guy is briefly playable, but all takes place inside the same base at the same time. Graphics improved from the first game, but there is less variety since there are lesser locations to explore.

Random Fact: in the first game in fact the various playable characters were all soldiers of the human army or neutral characters and civilians, instead here there is a short part in which we have to play as the machines, that are basically the bad guys of the story.

Final Verdict: another excellent demo, more focused on a single situation and team, but unfortunately the story ends just when it becomes interesting, with the arrival of Lisanne and the attack of the machines. What a pity! In any case it's also graphically superior to the first game.

Monday, August 24, 2026

Mystery Man Zero by Yeaster

A man is sent to Earth to chase after a dangerous foe who was exiled from the Pleiades for attempting to seek control of the Milky Way. With Earth as this demon's personal playground, is Zero alone enough to stop it? And what other secrets surround this demon?

In this game you assume the role of Zero, an enigmatic masked demon hunter from another world, sent to Earth in pursuit of a dangerous, plague-spreading demonic creature that poses a terrible threat to mankind. Aided by hapless civilians and fellow demon hunters, help Zero unravel the clues that will lead him to the demon while discovering the secrets behind Zero’s own origins…

Mystery Man Zero is another bizarre modern-fantasy game by Yeaster, this time with more futuristic influcences: we play as a special agent that has to investigate a demonic threat, and the gameplay is basically more or less the same of Complete Chaos and Vanity. What makes the game really better is the unique setting and characters, the edits and the portraits taken from the Persona games really make this game look stylish.

Download Link
Rmarchiv.de

Random Fact: this was the last game made by Yeaster using Rpgmaker 2003, and unfortunately this wasn't completed. However the demo is pretty long and enjoyable. Unlike Onyx, Vanity and Complete Chaos, the story is set in the far future and has no relations with the other games, nor cameos of the characters from the previous games.

Final Verdict: One of those rare games that appears to be set in the modern world, although naturally there’s no shortage of aliens, demons, magic, or any of the other fun stuff that we love about RPGs. Executed in a very noir style, this game is a rare stylistic gem.

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Obama RPG: Magical Quest 3 HD - Future Legend of Superhuman President Starring Barack Obama by Marche100

The Philosopher's Stone, an object of untold power that has been a part of many myths and legends throughout history. It is said to grant the user immortality and immense power; however, it has been lost to the ages for centuries.

The year is 2012. It just seems like another boring day in the White House until President Obama receives word that the White House is under attack from unknown intruders. Not one to miss a beat, he soon learns that the attackers, who come from another world, plan to overtake Earth and are searching for the fabled Philosopher's Stone.

Obama knows that he can't let the aliens find the Philosopher's Stone and use its power to take over the world, so he ventures forth and begins a search for it himself that will take him to the far corners of the Earth, through outer space, and even the edge of existence. But they aren't the only players in this game, and the closer Obama gets to the truth, the closer the Earth is to its end.

Obama RPG: Magical Quest 3 HD is a parodistic rpg adventure involving aliens and various characters, like politicians, singers and even protagonists of various movies and tv series like Doctor Who. The game uses edits and a mix of RTPs and real life pictures, while the gameplay uses the defaul Rpgmaker battles system and interface.

Random Fact: although the Rpgmaker.net page has no download set as official. the RMN archive contains eleven different versions of the demo. Check that HERE (and check also for other games, if you want!).

Random Fact: a unique game, even if its "weird-modern-world-adventure" concept that involves some real-life characters reminds to me of Rezident Evil - it is Escape by twentyfour24. Unfortunately this one is just a demo, what a pity.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Space Attorney by Superstroke & riderx40

Eris is a young attorney who worked in the purgatory for several years, until one day he became the accused in a rather weird case that left him in the spot. Can Eris win this trial with his friends or he will be sentenced to the blackhole for eternity?

Space Attorney is a little visual novel made for the 2016 Swapsie event by two developers: Superstroke made the first half and riderx40 the second. It's a very strange visual novel with surreal elements since it's about a lawyer that works in Purgatory that gets in trouble with aliens. Yeah. The game is short but very stylish, combining cutscenes with black-and-white silouhuettes to colorful slides.

Random Fact: while this is TECHNICALLY a fangame and parody of Ace Attorney it's so detached from the source material that you don't need to know anything (except maybe that it's about a lawyer!), I mean it's a different game, there aren't cameos of characters from the series nor there is anything that relates to it. Probably it was just a pun on the title.

Final Verdict: Space Attorney was a game I probably found while looking for Ace Attorney fangames, but well this game is really not what I expected. Well I'm not sure anyone can expect something from this game, that's really peculiar, original and unique adventure, surely not without flaws but probably this can be excused being this an event game also done by two different developers. That's not easy!
So if you want to play a bizarre interactive visual novel ("so bad it's so good")... you won't be disappointed! Unrefined, but wildly awesome.

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Seekers of the Sun by Remains of Scythe / Remainaery

Long ago, a dream seemed to be coming true for humanity. With the help of the Tiphareth, who possessed the gift of gathering and harnessing the energies of the cosmos, a period of prosperity and progress followed. But humanity's greed, as so often before, proved greater when the Seekers of the Sun appeared.

With their help, it was now possible to obtain even more energy, energy from the nearest star, their own sun. But the joy was not to last. The sun, once the eternal source of life's power, now lies dying, brought down by decades of exploiting its life force. Since then, humanity has been forced to live in the safety of bunkers, but for how much longer?

Thus, the rulers of this world made a decision, the decision to give the sun what they had stolen from them, even if it meant paying a terrible price for it.

The game is set in a cold dystopian underground complex and we play as an artificial being called Abyss on a rampage. I will not spoil the plot but the story starts in media res and the game is just a short demo in which we play as a very powerful single character, that's unlikely he was supposed to be the protagonist of the series (the reason why I suppose Abyss isn't the protagonist is because the game includes many custom made attacks of another character named Aery, a swordwoman with green/purple hair). The strength of this game is the grim dark tone and sci-fi setting, there are some nicely made facesets and the rest of the graphics are mostly CT edits that are cohesively put together.

Mirror Link

Rpg Atelier

Random Fact: the custom battle system of Seekers of the Sun was made by Kokibi, the author of A Gate into Eternity, that was posted previously.

Final Verdict: a small demo but a very stylish one, it was pretty popular at its time, and it's a real cool prologue. Unfortunately it wasn't followed by an actual game.

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Robosaga by unknown (italian)

The evil General together with his henchman Ashura commands the alien invasion of planet Earth. But the humans are ready, Tetsuya Tsurugi, the pilot of Great Mazinger, the robot designed by Dr. Kenzo Kabuto is the one that will start the counterattack to save Japan. However to defeat the alien army he will have to recruit other pilots and their robots: Hiroshi Shiba with Jeeg, Ryo with Getter Robo, and many others.

Robosaga is a homage to the robots of the anime, presenting a character able to recruit various heroes. And there is a reason to do this, since each robot has some kind of power, like being able to repair items, move boulders or swim in low water. This allows to reach normally unreachable areas and progress.

The game also uses a side-view custom battle system, a couple of years before Rpgmaker 2003 made its default system.

Download Link (original version)

Random Fact: enemy robots have often silly names, like Gutalax, that's very similar to Guttalax, a stimulant laxative medication used for the short-term treatment of occasional constipation.

Final Verdict: a classic Italian fangame developed using RPG Maker. It is most prominently featured in the Italian indie and fangame development community (such as on the Rpg²S Forum) as an example of what can be built using the engine's older iterations.

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Emera trilogy by Sugiyan すぎやん (japanese)

Emera.1 - Rest in Peace - Project Mother, which entrusted local administration to advanced artificial intelligence, has been scrapped, but the recovery of the developed AI, "Mother Core," is not progressing at all. Meanwhile, Ragon Bernhard, an auditor for the World Government, notices a mysterious woman. This woman, carrying a large suitcase, has come to the place to fulfill a promise made in the past…

This is a near-future sci-fi dungeon-crawling RPG. As you progress through the levels, the atmosphere and stage mechanics change, and you will face over 10 bosses, including a hidden boss. There are branching endings and several hidden elements. You can also freely build and strengthen the protagonist's combat style to a certain extent. The estimated playtime is 3-5 hours for the original version, 3-7 for the reboot version. The reboot is a significant upgrade in graphics, scenario, and system compared to this work.

The reboot was the winner of the 11th Freem! Game Contest for "Commendable Effort Award"

Download Link (reboot version)

freem.ne.jp (original version)

freem.ne.jp (reboot version)

Rmarchiv.de (both versions)

Youtube Playthrough (reboot version)

Emera.2 - Odds and Ends - The old world, which boasted an outstanding scientific civilization, perished long ago—an era where magic and mystery thrive, and legends of dragons are told. In a world that celebrates the earth and respects the mana of nature…

This city was an anomaly, emitting an eerie glow of inorganic matter and high-tech.

This RPG unfolds from multiple perspectives within a single city. This work consists of multiple chapters, with characters and settings changing in each of them.

This game is different from the previous because it's a series of scenarios with multiple protagonists: here the focus is on the story, although main characters can improve their skills and stats by spending experience points gained through combat. Encounters happen on touch with wandering enemies, but there are also the usual mandatory boss fights. The playtime is approximately 10-16 hours.

Awarded the Silver Prize in the RPG Category at the 12th Freegame Contest.

Misia, a direct descendant of the old royal family, is tired of living a life that is all about studying. He took the "rusty treasured sword'' and planned to run away from home. He is easily brought back, but an incident occurs soon after...

This is a complete fantasy classic rpg with a main hero, unlike the previous title that was more focused on story of different characters. During your journey, you will make friends and you will be able to form a party. Please note that there is no so-called field map in this work. Like in the previous entries battles are initiated touching wandering enemies, aside from the obligatory boss battles. There are several locations and characters returning from the second games, anyway it's a stand alone adventure. The play time is about 15-20 hours.

Received the "RPG Special Award'' for the 10th Freeme contest.

Final Verdict: the Emera trilogy is an excellent series that started from a small game and then became a whole series creating a series of adventures that may be played independently, although playing the whole series is far more enjoyable due to the return of some characters, heroes become npcs and npcs become heroes. The system is kept consistent during the whole series, all encounters are fought against avoidable enemies or mandatory battles that are often boss fights, the fame uses the classic Rpgmaker 2000 battle system, but he aestetics are enriched by the many edits and custom art that's especially evident in the reboot of the first game. Overall this is for me one of the best classic japanese rpg series, particularly memorable also for its peculiar cyberpunk/techno-fantasy setting.

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Nicolas by Promatheus

You're a space marine partaking in a mission on a distant planet, Nicolas. Normally, industrial missions such as this require little or no military support. Things started to screw up early on though, so no languidity for you.
Just at the moment when you think you took control of the difficulties, they took control over you. You must struggle to survive with your teammates, and carefully reserve your equipment.
If you still hope to reach Earth sometime, of course...

Nicolas is a sort of open-planet rpg adventure: you have to perform a series of mission on the surface of the planet, like reactivated some automated mining facilities, and these can be in any order. There are also some optional quests like obtaining samples for the scientist, anyway the biggest difficulty will be the resources management, since these are scarce. Enemies are mostly weak, but they often outnumber the party members.

Random Fact: the portraits of most characters seems to be edited pictures, maybe of the developer and friends.

Final Verdict: Nicolas is an interesting adventure game where managing the scarce supplies is crucial to survive. The plot and gameplay are both pretty simple and it's pretty much an ok game, I just have liked it more if it was more generous with loot or if battles were shorter, since the atb bar recharges so slowly. Sigh. I know that combat is a big part of the game, but I found it pretty annoying, there aren't lots of abilities or equipments and feels a litte repetitive, but I kept playing to see what was going to happen next. What can I say more? Give it a try!

Friday, July 17, 2026

FF: Endless Nova by Delita Hyral X

The game follows the exploits of Deren Star, an odd jobs person who, along with his android companion Motor, is unexpectedly pulled into an adventure to save Hell's Dome, a solar system surrounded by an impenetrable asteroid belt from an artificial supernova. Along the way he meets a number of companions who all end up helping him for some reason or another; Lisbeth, an amnesiac girl with cat ears, a thief named Ibis, a Blue Mage named Ellana, a monk named Fuban, and a walking, talking doll named KioSen, who used to be human.

FF: EN was made in RM2K and focuses on making a fangame that has the spirit of the series without treading on the story of already established game worlds. In fact, that is one of the greatest points about the game - that it creates the feel of a Final Fantasy game without having to use the story and characters of other Final Fantasy games before it.

An interesting detail is that the custom levelling system is taken from Final Fantasy 2, where what you did in battle determined your stat upgrades. It's very different from other FF games, but that is where it comes from.

The graphics are a hodge-podge of rips, RTP and custom, maps do suffer from the typical large map syndrome, sadly, but as was usual of the era in which it was made, most attention was focussed on story and systems and this game pulls both off quite well. There are a few different kind of custom systems in play and any player will find something interesting to take away from the game.

If needed you can find a walkthrough here: https://indiefaqs.com/index.php/FinalFantasyEndlessNovaWalkthrough

Random Fact: in 2021 ReloadPsi released an fan-updated version with more dialogues, rebalanced battles, bug fixes and more. You may get this version from the links below: