A simple, short tutorial walks you through the basic controls and gets you up and running within a couple of minutes the main Yōkai Hunt mode tasks you with retrieving three scrolls and taking them to the tenth level of the dungeon the Picnic mode is the same but easier and an Endless mode provides the longevity after you’ve unlocked all the available yōkai.Įach yōkai has four different skills, each of which has a cost to unleash both in terms of your “SP” meter and the hidden “hunger” statistic. You begin the game with a semi-random selection of three yōkai, and four ways to play. This isn’t a Yōkai Watch or Pokémon ripoff, mind you here, you actually take on the role of the yōkai you acquire in an attempt to… well, acquire more of them.

Yōdanji’s concept - not that it really matters once you start playing - is based around a fictional smartphone application that allows people to capture yōkai, the many varied and wonderful creatures and spiritual entities from Japanese folklore. One that grabbed my attention recently - primarily due to it being on sale for less than what you’d pay for breakfast at Starbucks - was Yōdanji, a game originally released by Kemco for PC, mobile and Switch in 2017, and a self-described “coffee-break roguelike themed after Japanese folklore tales”. The most bounteous sources of unusual and cheap Nintendo- based entertainment to date have been the 3DS eShop, which brought us games such as the highly unusual but thoroughly compelling Puzzle Labyrinth, and the Switch’s eShop, which is awash with small-scale indie projects from all over the world. Posts simply linking to or mentioning games will be removed, especially in relation to 'roguelike-likes'.Every now and then, I like to trawl through Nintendo’s various digital marketplaces to see if anything interesting catches my eye.

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