TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

Released Apr 2020

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.

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Evaluation

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children reached its full release on April 23, 2020 after an Early Access period. The developer shipped two major paid story expansions: White Lion and Black Witch (November 16, 2020) and Crimson Crow (October 21, 2022). The Crimson Crow DLC received its final planned content update in October 2023, with a companion art book and soundtrack released on November 20, 2023. In a September 2023 development roadmap post, the developer explicitly stated that completing Crimson Crow's content does not mean the end of support for the base game, committing to ongoing quality-of-life improvements, new missions, and community-requested updates — roughly one to two per month — continuing until resources are fully shifted to their sequel. Feature patches and balance updates have continued in line with this commitment: a November 26, 2025 patch addressed balance and bug fixes, and a May 13, 2026 patch added new gameplay features including crafting filters, costume randomization options, and combat balance changes. All 20 DLC items on the store are released. The developer is actively working on their sequel, "Troubleshooter: Banished Children," with a development update posted on August 7, 2026 — just three days before today's date — sharing new character abilities, scenario progress, and music. That same update mentions plans to release a playable demo before the end of 2026. The developer also acknowledged difficulties during the early part of 2026 that slowed progress, and apologized for the gap in communication, but confirmed the team is continuing development. All story DLC for the original game is complete and available. The game continues to receive meaningful system and balance updates, and the developer has not announced an end to base-game support.
Evidence
Developer posts sequel development update #7, acknowledging ~10 months of silence due to team difficulties, sharing new character abilities, scenario progress, and music. Plans a playable demo before end of 2026.
news post · Aug 7, 2026 source development ongoing
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Feature patch adds new gameplay options (crafting filter, random costume equip, PvP mode) and balance changes, with developer noting development challenges since late 2025 but promising to share sequel news soon.
news post · May 13, 2026 source development ongoing
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Details

Developer
Publisher
Dandylion
Achievements
263
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

( * Unofficially supports translation for German, Italian, French. Those translations are written by gamers and some part of it is written by machine translation. You can select those translations in the game option. )

Everything that SRPG could possibly be

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.

Valhalla, the unstable nation

Valhalla is a free trading nation erected by three world powers for their own benefits after the world war. In an attempt to control the nation, the three world powers banned the army from Valhalla. Due to these circumstances, public order in Valhalla is always unstable and thus after ten years the Valhalla government made a bold decision.

The birth of Troubleshooter

The Valhalla government granted civilians the right to investigate and arrest criminals in order to lower the rising crime rate. People call them Troubleshooter.

The beginning of your and everyone else's stories

10 years have passed since the introduction of the troubleshooter system. Albus, a 20-year-old young man, becomes an official troubleshooter. Albus first starts his company on his own but soon takes in many colleagues as he solves more cases. All these new members of the company have their own motivations and stories. You will be experiencing a variety of missions in Valhalla through their stories.

Specialized classes. Over 1000 masteries. More than 500 additional masteries

All characters in Troubleshooter have their own unique classes. Each character can rank up to the upper class, and the role of your character changes according to the class.

All characters in Troubleshooter can acquire various masteries according to their levels and classes. Furthermore, you can activate additional effects by combinations of masteries. Utilizing this, you can make a character for your unique strategy.

Such masteries can be acquired by leveling your character up. However, in most cases, you can acquire masteries from enemies. In other words, you can take your enemies' unique traits and apply them to your characters.

More than 100 unique missions

There are more than 100 unique missions in Troubleshooter. All missions are designed independently, and all of them have their own unique circumstances.

More than 500 unique cut scenes

Troubleshooter uses more than 500 cut scenes to portray the story.

The creativity SRPG can have

As new characters join your company, playable content will be unlocked according to their roles. For example, if you recruit a hunter character, you will be able to tame beasts. You will be able to craft drones if you recruit engineers.

Things to consider before purchasing

※ We support offline mode, which is for those who have an unstable internet connection.

※ Multi-playing contents will be added continuously, and for safe and fair user information, we require your internet connection on online mode.

※ There will be updates and maintenances, which will be announced in advance. You will not have access to the online mode of the game during this time.

- Time Required: 2 hours (Can change)

- The period of the update can change according to the contents at work.

※ If you want to get more information about the game, please visit the Troubleshooter Discord channel (Unofficial).

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Last evaluated Aug 10, 2026
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