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Arto to Bring Psychedelic Action to Steam in January; Next Fest Demo Available Now

Arto screenshot

Gamera Games and OrionGames announced that Arto is targeting a January 2023 release date. The game is currently in development for PC and will release via Steam. If you want to experience it firsthand, the demo of the new colorful title is already up for download for Steam Next Fest.

Here’s the official trailer featuring gameplay and developer talk:

Arto is a vibrant, stylized action RPG with a unique visual design where you journey across a desaturated world. Exploring, uncovering mysteries, and defeating challenging bosses will bring back the colors of every area you traverse. 

About Arto

Arto is a colorful hack-n-slash action-RPG, a fast-paced journey into a desolate, desaturated world that you bring back to life with every step you take. Arm yourself with a varied arsenal of weapons and spells to unlock and upgrade, and the magic ability to shoot beams of paint., You’ll begin a journey through wildly different biomes – each is presented in different perspectives and art styles and brings different gameplay mechanics to the experience!

Key Features

1. Fight against over 30 epic bosses, each with their own unique abilities, motivations and lore.

2. Prepare your weaponry and hone your combat skills and timing and engage in high tempo combat to defeat your foes!

3. Your actions define what you get: unlock multiple endings depending on your exploration routs, how you interact with NPCs and the fighting style you use in combat.

4. Go on an adventure that allows you to truly immerse and experience a variety of different art styles gameplay elements within a single game.

5. Enjoy the game both in English and Japanese from day one


Arto is launching on PC via Steam sometime in January 2023. The demo is up now and you can now add the game to your wishlist to get notified when it arrives. Note that we still don’t know how much it’ll retail for. There will also be a developer livestream showcasing two of Arto‘s biomes on October 7th. Stay tuned to RPGFan for more exciting updates and game announcements!

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Tin Manuel

Tin Manuel

Tin is a designer and a writer by day and an adventurer in whatever game she is playing at night. She gets giddy talking about RPGs (specifically JRPGs), new releases, and reveres almost every female protagonist. She has two cats and two dogs, whom she loves dearly. She’s forgetful at times, but she will always remember Aerith’s death frame by frame in 480p.

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