Moi Rai Games Has Released Aethermancer in Early Access

After Monster Sanctuary comes Aethermancer. The second game from the Hamburg-based studio moi rai games mixes monster taming with roguelite elements. It has been released in Early Access in collaboration with indie publisher offbrand games.

Aethermancer is the second game from moi rai games in Hamburg. It's a roguelite experience mixed with monster taming, and it launched in Early Access yesterday for €21.99 with a 10% launch discount. It achieved a Steam CCU peak of 2,975 on day one. This is considerably more than the CCU peak for Monster Sanctuary (1,397). After Early Access, it will also be released on Switch.

"You are the Aethermancer, a skilled warrior with the ability to recruit and tame mythic creatures. Use your powers (and your furry friends) to win strategic turn-based battles, defy death, and escape the fractured ruins," said the developers. To win turn-based 3v3 battles in a procedurally generated world, players must plan ahead. Each monster has upgradable elemental abilities. Monsters and player characters grow stronger with each new life.

The current Early Access version includes one player class, three difficulty modes, 28 monsters (each with a shifted variant) across 19 types, 443 monster abilities, three biomes to explore, four avenues of meta progression, town decorations and a Monster Deity boss fight. The game is expected to remain in Early Access for around a year. moi rai games: "With the full version of the game, we intend to build upon the foundation we’ve built with the Early Access launch. We plan to add polish, quality of life improvements, more monsters, more biomes, a fleshed-out end game area, deity boss fights, and player classes. Our hope is for the full version to have endless builds to experiment with, hours of exploration, as well as rewarding endings (and true endings)."

moi rai is an independent game developer based in Hamburg, Germany. Led by Denis Sinner, who has worked on the Might and Magic and Tropico franchises, the small team's first project was Monster Sanctuary. Developed in collaboration with publisher Team17, it was released for PC and consoles in December 2020. Monster Sanctuary received several free post-launch updates and DLC before the team moved on to their next project: Aethermancer. For this game, moi rai is collaborating with the USA-based indie publisher offbrand games.

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