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Press release:
The Tokyo-based (Japan) indie games publisher and developer Polyscape Inc., today announced with great thrill and joy that their anime-like roguelike/ARPG “MISTROGUE: Mist and the Living Dungeons“, is now available for PC (Windows and MAC) via Steam Early Access for ($19.9/£16.50/€19.50.

About Mistrogue
It is an ambitious project developed in roughly half a year by a team of six. Players can enjoy various play styles with controller support and Steam Deck compatibility. The Early Access version includes three dungeons and will allow players to play the story until the end in Japanese, English, and Chinese. The full release is planned for Autumn 2023. A port for the Nintendo Switch™ is also planned.
In “MISTROGUE: Mist and the Living Dungeons”, you will play as Mist, a treasure hunter who explores living dungeons using various skills and items. The terrain, footholds, monsters, traps, and everything inside the living dungeon may suddenly transform right before the explorers’ eyes, completely changing the situation in real time. Confront the living dungeons by developing your strongest skill build and utilising the ‘Maze Stones’ to create a path in your chosen spot, all while fighting against the relentless assault from monsters and gimmicks.

The ‘living dungeons’ will repeatedly respond to Mist’s actions and create gimmicks. For example, there may be platforms with enemies or treasure boxes on them that suddenly appear when you approach them, bridges that collapse once you cross them, a floor that moves in all directions, terrain that allows you to go up and down using elevations, etc. You may risk tumbling from the path in some places if you run with all your might, but you can use dodge to roll and go across the spot.

Due to the strange powers of the living dungeons, Mist’s level will reset every time he enters the dungeon. Therefore, if Mist is defeated amid exploration, some items and money obtained in that run will be lost. The dungeons’ structures constantly change, so players must not let their guard down during exploration.

You can use items and change equipment during a battle. Choose your equipment and spell books carefully, depending on the situation. However, items and skills have cooldown time, so you cannot use them continuously in succession. You can gather many enemies in one spot, stun them all at once with a spell book, or use knockback attacks to make enemies fall.

You can use the item ‘Maze Stone’ or special skills from specific equipment to create retreat paths or drop footholds along with the enemies on the footholds at your discretion. Freely utilize the unique puzzle aspects for clearing the maze.
Mist can equip four types of equipment: weapons, shields, bangles, and rings. Weapons, shields, and bangles have inherent skills. Effectively mix and match these to increase the synergy between skills multiple times. Using this feature, you can progress exploration with your own strongest builds to match their preferences or the enemies they are facing, such as an attacker-type build with critical rate raise to the limits, a thief-type build that specializes in ailments and agility, or a tank build that specializes in defence and healing.

While rings do not have any skill, they will raise specific parameters. Ring drops are random, so you must find the most suitable one to optimize.

About Polyscape Inc.
Hiroki Shimada, who launched LAPRAS Co., Ltd., which developed the career matching platform “LAPRAS” for engineers and the AI headhunting service “LAPRAS SCOUT” for companies, retired from the CEO in February this year. A startup company established with the mission of creating a virtual world where people can live more freely.

Profile of Hiroki Shimada, CEO of Polyscape Co., Ltd.
Born in 1992.
In 2015, he received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kyoto University. He majored in artificial intelligence.
In 2016, obtained MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
While studying at the University of Edinburgh, he experienced launching new businesses at Google and the Incubate Fund.
In May, he founded scouty Co., Ltd. (currently LAPRAS Co., Ltd.), which provides Japan’s first AI headhunting service.
In 2021, he was selected as “Forbes Under 30 Asia 2021”.
In 2022, he retired as CEO of LAPRAS Co., Ltd. and founded Polyscape Co., Ltd.