Systems
SYSTEM
Change your form to fool everyone around you.
Choose a form on the transform screen. Here is what each one can do.
- Fox Hold to dash
- Human Slide
- Red Oni Hold to charge
- Kappa Water gun
- Tanuki Inhale
-
化ける
Transform
Change your form to fool everyone around you. Three forms are playable now, Fox, Human, and Red Oni, with more planned for the full release. In some places, certain forms are not available.
-
話す
Talk
Speak with villagers, with spirits, and sometimes with enemies. What they say back can change depending on your form.
-
頼まれごと
Quests
Mend a ladder, gather herbs, drive off the Onipan, find the treasure in the forest. The game remembers what you have taken on, so you can wander as you go.
-
壊して進む
Break through
As a Red Oni, hold the special button to charge, then release to smash brittle rocks. The more forms you have, the more roads open up.
-
解き方はひとつではない
More than one answer
There is rarely a single solution. Push through by force, talk your way past, or find another road entirely. Save the world your own way.
Actionsできること
What you can do changes depending on what you approach.
- Attack Strike forward. Attacks in mid-air deal heavy damage
- Special Use the power of your current form. Some change when held
- Transform Choose a form
- Items Look at and use what you have picked up
- Talk Speak with villagers, spirits, and sometimes enemies
- Read Read signposts and notes
- Open Open treasure chests and the like
- Enter / Exit Go in and out of houses and caves
Quests頼まれごと
Quests available in the Early Access build. The game remembers what you have taken on, so you can wander as you go.
-
The Lost Drop of the Sacred Tree
The drop has vanished from the sacred tree of Fox Village. The Red Oni lurking in their forest seem to be involved. Head into the forest and look for clues.
- Go to Red Oni Forest
- Defeat 3 Red Oni
- Obtain an Oni Horn
- Report to Sontyo
-
Treasure in the Forest
A travelling merchant says a treasure chest is hidden somewhere in Red Oni Forest. Head into the forest, find the chest, and open it.
- Go to Red Oni Forest
- Open the chest in the forest
-
Rumours of the Bamboo Grove
Hina, a child of the village, has a rumour to tell about the kappa bamboo grove. Hear her out, then gather 2 branches to bring to the grove.
- Listen to Hina
- Gather 2 branches
-
Onipan Extermination
The Onipan in the forest are multiplying and getting close to the village. Defeat 5 Onipan in Red Oni Forest.
- Defeat 5 Onipan
-
Mending the Ladder
The village ladder is broken. Gather 3 branches to repair it.
- Gather 3 branches
- Deliver them to Shugo
-
A Hungry Merchant
Once the ladder is fixed, the merchant up top turns out to be too hungry to move. Bring him a persimmon.
- Gather 1 persimmon
- Deliver it to the merchant
-
Herb Gathering
There are not enough herbs to treat the injured. Gather 3 oni herbs that grow in Red Oni Forest.
- Gather 3 oni herbs
Items拾えるもの
Found by the roadside and in treasure chests. Some are useful, others are meant to be delivered.
- Oni Herb Restores 10 HP A medicinal herb with a peculiar smell. Heals wounds. Ground into a paste for cuts, or brewed as tea.
- Persimmon Restores 20 HP A sweet fruit that lifts the spirits. Eaten peeled and fresh, or dried to keep.
- Deer Cracker Throw it and deer come running A plain-tasting cracker meant for deer. Throw one and any deer that catches the scent will come running.
- Branch A branch a Red Oni was carrying. Sturdy and solid.
- Oni Horn A horn taken from an oni.
- Spiky Nut It is spiky.
- Red-Blossom Sake Not until you are of age.
- Letter to Yukie You must not read other people's letters.
Shop店
Buy from and sell to the travelling merchant. The currency is the "mon".
- "What'll you buy?"
- "How many?"
- "Thank you kindly!"
Now in Early Access on Steam
Shizuku: Japanese myth
¥1,600 Early Access price; regional pricing applies on Steam
WISHLIST ON STEAM How to play & requirements
- SteamEarly Access out now
- Nintendo SwitchComing later