A full bag no longer eats your Yen

Big week of polish and plumbing, starting with an inventory overhaul. Every shop and crafting bench now checks for space before charging you, so a full bag can't swallow your Yen anymore. One-time rewards are covered too. If your bag is full, quest items, the festival egg, login-streak eggs and job rewards go to your mailbox instead of vanishing. Whoops.

The Marketplace and guild bank are safer as well. Equipped and soulbound items can't be listed, and sales settle reliably across servers. The last batch of the inventory overhaul is built and rolling out after device testing.

Food buffs now survive logging out and carry into the dungeon, with a new buff pill on the HUD. On phones, the HP and hunger bars now show numbers. And the new quest "Bark and Memory" is playable start to finish.

Then the money. We took a full snapshot of the economy and ran a balance review. Gear repair costs are cut to about a sixth of what they were, so repairing a full kit went from 1,206 to 202 Yen. Koji's shop prices are now consistent everywhere.

For anyone on the wrong side of the law, being Wanted now times out after 3 minutes, with a countdown banner. Leave jail and you get 5 minutes of immunity. Deputy status and the Tanaka questline got tightened up too.

The city and the dungeon now agree on damage, HP and run progress, which is the sort of thing you only notice when they don't. Pets now join you in the first dungeon, and a new loot feed shows what you pick up.

Behind the scenes, the new Lore Canon Ledger is our one source of truth for the story, seven-dragon roster included. Art direction is locked for weapons, the dungeon's corruption kit and the Sakura Duck pet, and the second dungeon, the Sewer Depths, is planned out. Under the hood, we closed a batch of exploits and economy leaks before launch, and quests are now verified by the server when you complete them.

Next up, gear perks and gear affinity.

Say hello to Monster's Insight

The mobile project has a name. Monster's Insight is an auto-battler where you play Mortis, a summoner who wakes up dead in his own graveyard because a chest has been shouting into the hole he was buried in. The chest reckons that if you can raise the dead you can probably raise yourself, all the way back to human, so off you go to find out whether that is even possible.

The hook is Insight. Kill something often enough and you learn how it goes together, and once you know that, the chest can summon one for you. One of them walks beside you and the other one you wear, so beating a Skeleton Golem is how you get to be a Skeleton Golem. Your party can share a class or an element, never both, which is the one rule the whole team-building sits on.

What is in the build so far: the opening cutscene and a guided tutorial that makes you actually press the buttons rather than watching it happen, six playable classes with their own skill pools, a chest with five pull types, the Geometric Socket Board for charms and sigils, hex overworld levels assembled fresh each run, a Trial Dungeon mode, and a full loadout screen reached by tapping whichever party member you want to fiddle with.

Two currencies. Soul Shards come off the things you kill. Obols are the coin you put in a dead man's mouth to pay the ferryman, and the chest will take one in exchange for a summon. Same odds boost either way, no power locked behind them.

It is on TestFlight now for internal testing. Combat balance is the next thing on the bench.

Mobile gets its own screens

Big mobile day. Trade, Marketplace, Welcome, Daily Rewards and Onboarding are all properly mobile-native now instead of shrunken desktop panels. Phones are locked to landscape too, so there's one layout to build against going forward.

An outside playtest turned up six bugs, and four of them were things we never would have caught ourselves. Our own accounts had all finished onboarding long ago, so that part of the UI had literally never appeared in any of our mobile testing. Fresh eyes find what familiar ones skip right past.

The Welcome screen is split properly now. Welcome always shows, with a news button attached, and the daily reward only appears until you claim it before collapsing into a small timer chip.

We also found the Marketplace suggesting sell prices that lost you money compared to just selling to an NPC. A Legendary netted 73 against 80 from a vendor, and the tax wasn't shown anywhere. That's fixed, and every tier beats vendoring now.

Spawn plate, onboarding arrow and zoom cap are queued for once the mobile phase wraps.

The Pet Dex has bloomed

Big pet energy this patch. Sakura City now has a full Pet Dex. Every species gets a numbered entry with lore and stats, and the ones you haven't found yet show up as mysterious ??? silhouettes to track down. Once you've owned a species it stays discovered forever, even if you trade your last one away.

Your pet inventory got a glow-up too. Pets show up as actual portrait cards now instead of a text list, and you can jump straight into trading with a nearby player or list a pet on the Marketplace right from its card.

Mobile players get all of it native, plus a cleaner HUD. There's a new time chip under the compass, a yen counter you can actually read, and tabs that finally sit in the right order.

The Job System is done

Big month. All 15 jobs across Sakura City are live and tested, with every NPC employer, task, and payout working start to finish.

The Pet Battle Arena got a solid upgrade too. Ranked wins now count toward your quests no matter what, so even if your opponent rage-quits mid-match, you still get full credit. Practice matches no longer touch your win/loss record either.

A few other things we cleaned up: overworld enemies now glide and turn to face where they're heading instead of stuttering around, so chases feel a lot better. Reward popups roll up into clean running totals instead of spamming the screen. And we fixed the Token Shop, so eggs and spirit cards bought with tokens actually land in your inventory now. Whoops.

Next up, summer is coming to Sakura City. More on that soon.

Dungeons now check your Combat Power

Dungeons check your Combat Power at the door now, boss telegraphs got reworked, and the first World First leaderboard is live for testers.

Housing & the player marketplace

Place furniture, host friends, and list your catch on the new player-run marketplace. Pets now follow you between districts of Sakura City.

Our no pay-to-win promise, in writing

We wrote down our monetization principles so players and parents know exactly what to expect. Convenience and cosmetics, never power.

An untitled roguelite enters internal alpha

The core loop is fun: swarms, builds, and a run timer. We're tuning difficulty curves and controller feel ahead of a closed mobile test.

Fellowships & the road to Guilds

Group up into Fellowships for shared goals and chat, the social backbone we'll grow into full Guilds before launch.