Seoul-based YoshiYoshi Studio has introduced KAELIS: Seraph Protocol, a Japanese-inspired character-driven single-player science-fantasy RPG that includes academy life, exploration, turn-based fight, character bonds, and selections that may affect how some occasions unfold. It can launch for PC by way of Steam in 2028. A Kickstarter campaign searching for $27,000 in funding is now dwell.
Right here is an summary of the sport, by way of its Steam page:
About
KAELIS: Seraph Protocol is an academy science-fantasy JRPG that mixes the character attachment and relationship-driven enchantment of subculture video games with the deep narrative immersion of a single-player JRPG.
The title Kaelis is impressed by the Latin caelum—“sky” or “heaven”—and caelis, evoking the celestial realm.
Gamers tackle the function of Kaito, a citizen of Kaelis who turns into an Executor of Serenos Academy. Together with his academy companions, he investigates Noise incidents, and his selections, area choices, and enforcement actions form his relationships and the movement of every case.
Story
2 hundred years in the past, the world was swallowed by the flames of warfare, and every little thing turned to ash.
There, beneath the ashes, humanity discovered a small and faint glow—a lightweight they named “Lumina.”
Drawing near that gentle, they constructed their final metropolis: Kaelis. A metropolis stuffed with Lumina, peaceable and exquisite even now.
And but, behind all that order, the sunshine would typically waver, ever so faintly—a distortion nobody may clarify, the factor folks got here to name “Noise.”
Shirakawa Kaito was an totally strange boy, one who had all the time stored the necklace his father left him near his coronary heart—till, from sooner or later on, the town itself stopped recognizing him as an “strange citizen.”
Caught up in that unusual change, Kaito finds himself stepping onto the sphere as an “Executor” of Serenos Academy, the physique that handles the town’s Noise.
Along with the Academy’s personal Guardians, he units out towards a fact about this metropolis that nobody but is aware of—and now, the story begins to maneuver.
Kaito and the Guardians
Meet Your Guardians.
As Kaito’s journey by means of Kaelis unfolds, he’ll meet new Guardians who develop into companions in his battle towards the Noise.
Every Guardian belongs to one among Serenos Academy’s specialised divisions, carries their very own Lumina attributes, and brings a unique function to the get together.
- Hoshimiya Amane
- Tsukishiro Reina
- Suiba Kotoha
Construct affinity together with your companions by means of the story, conversations, and time spent collectively at Serenos Academy.
As your bonds deepen, new sides of every Guardian start to emerge, and the way in which they battle alongside Kaito could change by means of coordinated assaults, assist actions, and get together synergy.
Strategic Flip-Primarily based Lumina Battles
Battle alongside the Guardians of Serenos Academy in turn-based battles with as much as 4 energetic get together members.
Each Guardian and each Noise is formed by one among eight Lumina Spectrums: Ignis, Glacies, Fulgur, Terra, Lumina, Umbra, Void, and Aether.
Every Spectrum has its personal strengths, weaknesses, and reactions. Observe how the Noise responds to your assaults, establish its Spectrum, and produce the precise Guardians to the entrance.
As Kaito’s bonds together with his companions deepen, coordinated assaults could be unlocked, opening new methods for the crew to behave collectively in battle.
As an Executor, Kaito can activate the Executor Gadget to seal and get better Noise Cores from the sphere.
Recovered Cores could be introduced again to Serenos Academy, the place they’re analyzed and used to assist Lumina Disc improvement, facility upgrades, and Guardian progress.
Select the Move of Fate
Kaito’s selections, bonds, and discoveries can depart traces on every case, shaping the trail an incident takes earlier than its end result is determined.
- The Armillary Sphere – At decisive moments, the Armillary Sphere turns, and destiny is forged by means of a roll of the cube. Kaito’s bonds, discoveries, and area choices can shift the situations of that roll, influencing how an incident unfolds.
- Decisions and Area Selections – In conversations and quieter moments, select how Kaito responds. His phrases can strengthen bonds, change the tone of a scene, and reveal completely different sides of the folks round him.
Examine the Noise
Noise is a distortion born from Lumina—an indication that one thing inside Kaelis has begun to vary.
Comply with every case with the Guardians of Serenos Academy, collect clues, and enter unstable fields the place Noise takes kind.
As Kaito investigates these incidents, he and his companions are drawn deeper into the feelings, selections, and conflicts shaping the town.
Serenos Academy
On the coronary heart of Kaelis stands Serenos Academy, the central base for investigating Noise incidents and responding to Lumina distortion throughout the town.
As an Executor of Serenos Academy, Kaito receives missions, evaluations case info, enters unstable fields, and leads the Guardians by means of Noise encounters.
The Academy is split into 4 specialised divisions:
- Strike – Area operations, direct engagement, and fight response.
- Report – Noise knowledge, case proof, and irregular area evaluation.
- Concord – Resonance stability, crew coordination, and operational assist.
- Veritas – Lumina analysis, tuning applied sciences, and the hidden rules behind every incident.
Between missions, spend time together with your companions, strengthen your bonds, analyze and refine recovered Noise Cores, develop Lumina Discs, and improve Academy amenities to assist Guardian coaching, analysis, and skill progress earlier than heading again into the sphere.
Increase Bonds, Form Your Staff
Inside Kaelis, Lumina seems as eight distinct Spectrums. Every Guardian resonates with as much as two of them, shaping their expertise, fight model, and the way in which they face the Noise.
By way of academy life, coaching, and missions within the area, deepen bonds together with your companions and develop every Guardian’s skills over time.
Lumina Discs add one other layer of fight assist, permitting you to handle further traits and form how every Guardian contributes to the get together.
Discover Kaelis
Stroll by means of the luminous metropolis of Kaelis, a peaceable sanctuary the place Lumina helps on a regular basis life.
Discover districts and websites such because the Academy Quarter, buying areas, the town middle, quiet outskirts, and locations touched by Noise distortion.
Every location affords a glimpse into the folks of Kaelis, the techniques that defend them, and the feelings that quietly form the town.
Enter Kaelis. Turn into an Executor.
Watch the announcement trailer under. View the primary screenshots at the gallery.