ⓘ Soul’s Remnant
Developer Chaomoon began the venture in April 2016 and constructed it alone for eight years. They ran annual public playtests to ensure the curiosity within the recreation stays up and about. A second developer, Rajah, joined in 2025. That’s the complete studio.
The builders seemingly outdid themselves. The early entry construct comes with 72+ abilities throughout melee, ranged, magic and religion traces with no lessons to lock gamers in, over 1,000 gadgets, 700+ crafting recipes, 19 bosses, three dungeons, 200+ maps and 150+ quests. The financial system is totally player-run through an public sale home and participant store stalls, and Chaomoon composed all 40+ soundtrack items themselves. An actual day/evening cycle darkens most maps for roughly 22 real-world minutes at a stretch. This makes gentle sources a sensible concern for Soul’s Remnant.
For anybody on modest {hardware}, they are going to be glad to know that the necessities embody Home windows 7 or later, 2 GB of RAM, and a 400 MB set up measurement. The GameMaker-built shopper additionally has macOS and Linux builds, although Steam does flag a macOS 10.15 Catalina incompatibility. Full controller assist is already in, however verified Steam Deck assist is a 1.0 roadmap merchandise relatively than a shipped characteristic. To be honest, that’s comprehensible for a staff of two.
Chaomoon estimates six to 12 months in early entry. Additionally, the pricing plan is meant to remain the identical all through — free-to-play funded by optionally available beauty and comfort purchases. Character wipes have now stopped completely, which successfully ends a decade of seasonal resets.
The launch was initially set for five August, however moved per week to keep away from Nexon’s second MapleStory Classic World closed test, which ran from 4 to 12 August. Given how brazenly Soul’s Remnant wears its MapleStory affect, that appears like the proper name.
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