Square Enix announced Dragon Quest Walk, a new mobile game that blends the real-world exploration of games like Pokémon Go with the monster-battling RPG mechanics of the 33-year-old Dragon Quest series.
During a press conference in Tokyo on Monday, Square Enix showed off Dragon Quest Walk’s exploration of real-world locations, like Tokyo Tower, and battles against creatures like the series’ iconic slimes. A cinematic trailer for the game shows a variety of Dragon Quest beasts roaming through Tokyo’s subway system, the crowded Shibuya Crossing, the Dotonbori River in Osaka, and more rural areas.
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In addition to exploration, players will be able to build and customize their own houses in Dragon Quest Walk, filling them with slime-shaped furnishings and other decorative series staples, a la Dragon Quest 10, the massively multiplayer online RPG. Players can level up their characters and their homes.
Dragon Quest Walk is going into beta in Japan, but a release date was not announced. A Western release has not been announced, and given the series’ spotty history of Dragon Quest spinoffs making their way out of Japan, it’s best to temper expectations for a localization.
