Dragon Spirits : Prologue

RPG· Indie· Adventure· Creature Collector

Released Aug 2020

While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times. In those lucid dreams, he found himself in the game he was working on, the fantasy world of Dragon Spirits.

96% positive · 131 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Dragon Spirits: Prologue was released as a free demo/preview on August 26, 2020, explicitly described at launch as containing roughly 1/6 of the main content of the planned full game, with save transfer support promised for the eventual full release. It served its purpose as a promotional prologue for the full Dragon Spirits game. The full game, Dragon Spirits (a separate Steam title, App ID 1074190), launched on April 25, 2023 after the developer announced it was content-complete and had received its publishing approval. This fulfilled the original promise made at the Prologue's launch. The Prologue's role as a teaser/demo was thus completed when the full game shipped. As of August 2024, the developer also released a prologue version of Dragon Spirits 2 (App ID 2904170), confirming the series is continuing — but that activity is tied to the sequel, not this Prologue listing. Dragon Spirits: Prologue itself has no unreleased DLC, no outstanding content commitments, and no developer statements suggesting further updates to this specific title. It has fulfilled its stated purpose as a free preview of the first game in the series.

Evidence

Dragon Spirits (the full game) officially launched at $9.99, with 300,000+ words of story text and 50+ hours of content — fulfilling the full-game promise made at the Prologue's launch. Save transfer from the Prologue was confirmed to work.

news post · Apr 25, 2023 source development ending

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Dragon Spirits: Prologue launched as a free early version containing 1/6 of the main content of the planned full game, with save transfer promised for the official release.

news post · Aug 26, 2020 source content planned

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Media

Details

Developer

FHNBHJ

Publisher

indienova

Achievements

—

Platform

Windows

Controller

partial support

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

RPG Creature Collector Indie Adventure Strategy Dragons JRPG Comedy Story Rich Dungeon Crawler Strategy RPG Retro Management Old School 2D

About this game

In the Prologue part of this game, you will enjoy the first 3 weeks of student life in the Dragon Spirits Academy and there are also many side stories to explore and experience.

While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times.

His workmate, as well as his childhood best friend, advised him to take some decent sleep, but he simply wanted to get the game done before graduation to prove himself.

However, the mystery is that, in those lucid dreams, he found himself in the game he's been working on —— a fantasy world of Dragon Spirits.

His memory of the real world fades in and out among these dreams.

He found himself became as his younger self and met his childhood best friend again. They are all junior school students here, learning how to master the power of Dragon Spirits with the help of their teachers and many other classmates.

Déjà vu, he just cannot understand why everything felt so familiar and miraculous.

Features:

Adapted from a self-made board game created by one of the developers. She designed it at her very young age. Her teacher laughed and said that it is absolutely worthless and impossible to become a real video game. Many years later, she made this game for celebrating her graduation from college.
Catch, Train, Battle! The core of its game mechanic is inspired by the Pokémon series. Rest assured that our unique design will deliver a distinctive experience.
Tactical, challenging, and exciting real-time combat system. You need to choose the 4 skills for every Dragon Spirit in your team to create an optimized combination for battles, you must know when would be the best to use them.
There are plenty of side quests and challenges to discover and conquer, but be sure to enjoy your colorful school life. You can even reveal the secrets hidden among the history of Dragon Spirits.
100+ beautiful and characteristic illustrations of Dragon Spirits from various talented artists.