Within the period of farmlife sims exploding on PC, new video games actually need to carry one thing particular to catch my consideration. The pitch for Tales of Seikyu consists of kissing demon individuals and yeah, that’ll do it for me. Truthfully although, nearly each a part of this upcoming life sim has caught my eye: the animal transformations, the Japanese rural fantasy setting, and ranching capybaras too.
Farmlife sim followers know the drill, in any other case. Tales of Seikyu begins once you purchase a small property within the countryside the place you will farm numerous crops all through the seasons, look after animals, beautify your house, craft and promote the byproducts of your farm, and befriend or marry villagers.
And people villagers look implausible. The developer ACE Leisure says that Seikyu island has greater than 40 residents, amongst them a wild solid of people, chicken individuals, anthropomorphic otters, and naturally cat individuals too. It is the attractive chicken woman that shocked me although. How is that this solar hat-wearing, florally adorned chicken lady so beautiful? Marriage candidates apart, there are different unlikely townies like cranes and kappas with a stunning aesthetic that it is exhausting to not name Studio Ghibli-inspired.
I need to gush about having such a wide array of crops that features yams and bok choy or my excessive curiosity in having a capybara farm, however there’s much more than that on Tales of Seikyu’s listing of plans. The yokai shapeshifting system permits you to flip right into a chicken to fly around the globe or hop into the water as a slime creature catching fish with its vacuum mouth, or a boar that tills soil on the farm. There’s an motion fight system for sword combating towards some larger yokai monsters that I think goes to attract a couple of Breath of the Wild comparisons. The system for putting new barns, fences, and different decor appears fairly permissive as nicely.
Tales of Seikyu caught my eye with its Kickstarter marketing campaign initially, which I am completely happy to report it has now smashed. The life sim has been funded nicely previous its asking quantity and dedicated to stretch targets like a second protagonist selection, a pet retailer, and 5 new yokai. Although it did simply wrap the crowdfunding marketing campaign, Tales of Seikyu appears decently nicely alongside and has plans to launch someday in 2024. You possibly can wishlist it on Steam till then.
