CAIRNWAKE: Real Time Positioning JRPG, Free Demo
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Strategy. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
CAIRNWAKE: Real Time Positioning JRPG, Free Demo is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
You never choose an action. You choose where your four characters stand, continuously, while the fight is already running. What each of them does is decided by their rank and by who is standing beside them. How a fight works Four characters occupy four squares of a three by three grid. Five squares stay empty, and the empty ones are the point. Rank picks the verb. The columns are ranks.
The same character commits a physical act from the front, a supporting act from the middle, and a ranged or restorative one from the back. One person, three different actions, chosen only by where you put them. Adjacency arms the bonds. Every pair who share an edge has one authored effect that fires when either half acts. Four characters hold six live bonds at once, and moving one person re-routes several of them.
Nobody waits for you. Each character carries a cadence bar that fills on its own clock and acts the moment it is full. You never start an action. You only decide where the actor will be standing when the bar fills. The enemies telegraph regions, not targets. A sweep across a rank or a lane lights up before it lands, and the safe square and the good bond are usually not the same square.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.