9th Dawn Remake Brings Obscure Action RPG Back Into the Light on September 25th

Developer and publisher Valorware has announced that 9th Dawn Remake will be available on PC via Steam starting on September 25th. Valorware has added two impressive additions: 2.5D graphics and a first-person mode to this originally top-down 2D action RPG.

In a first for the 9th Dawn series, a 170-page e-novel The Book of Nameless will also be released to Steam, available separately or as a bundle with 9th Dawn Remake.

Check out the launch trailer below.

9th Dawn Remake Details and Features

This reimagining of the original 9th Dawn game delivers everything fans have been asking for … and then some. Bring a friend along with online co-op and 2-player local co-op. Explore and do battle in first-person, go (hardcore) fishing, revisit favorite locations – or stumble on new ones.

Like the original title, 9th Dawn Remake is a truly massive open world RPG – where dedicated (and curious!) players can spend 200+ hours completing the main and side quests, collecting rare loot, and raising monster pets. Bursting at the seams with dungeon-crawling hijinks, 9th Dawn Remake lovingly riffs on the original 9th Dawn game – revamping the combat and streamlining quests to deliver a novel, exhilarating 9th Dawn experience. 9th Dawn Remake has also been localized into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese!

Key Features

• Massive Open World: Explore more than 45 new hand-crafted dungeons – each brimming with deadly creatures and loot.
• Design Your Build: Unlock spells and abilities, assign attribute points, and upgrade your equipment.
• Raise Monster Pets: Hatch friendly creatures from eggs and raise them into powerful allies. 
• Side Quests: Aid the villages of Montelorne by partaking in a range of side quests.
• Loot & Prizes: Collect a vast amount of loot and fill your collecting journals for rewards.
• Craft the Best: Forge weapons, brew potions, and upgrade your weapons to become a champion!
• Fishing Survivors Mini-Game: Take control of powerful worm warriors and survive deadly waves of enemy fish.
• Deck Rock Mini-Game: Collect maps, level up your card champions, and create an epic deck.

New Features

• New 2.5D graphics
• Completely remade dungeons with bigger maps
• Sprites cleaned and reworked with improved animation
• Rewritten story and quests
• Online and 2-player local co-op
• Combat replaced with more fluid, action-based gameplay
• First-person mode added
• Two big mini-games included: Fishing Survivors, a bullet-heaven fishing game – and Deck Rock, a deck-building card game

Valorware is offering a 38% launch discount that will put the game at $9.91 USD on day one, before reverting to a standard retail price of $15.99 on October 9th. A bundle containing the main game and The Book of the Nameless will be available at launch, with the OST to be available for purchase on September 27th.

9th Dawn Remake will launch for PC via Steam on September 25th, and will be available with support for seven additional languages aside from English.

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