Calvin's Gallery

Calvin's Gallery is a classic RPG about Calvin's search for his missing father. After discovering a hidden art gallery filled with empty frames, Calvin follows clues to learn what the enchanted paintings have to do with his father, where the notes come from and why he cannot remember his father's face. The search leads through a world of unanswered questions: four collapsed kingdoms surround Calvin's struggling village, people and items have gone missing, and no one remembers what happened before.

Explore the valley

You explore the world, search hidden areas for pieces of lore and gather resources. Fallen logs from the valley forests provide materials for bridges, which let you reach some areas; the town shop also sells wood. Ore and stone outcrops yield stone, metal and powerful upgrade items.

You can also fish at local fishing holes and grow plants. There are 11 kinds of fish, some found only in specific places, and bringing them to Speedy earns special rewards. The four plants you can grow are herbs for healing items and cooking, magic fruit that permanently increases the eater's HP or MP, treasure plants that grow treasure chests, and crystal plants that produce crystals and gems for combat, selling or increasing attributes.

Build your team

You choose from seven characters, each with their own class, skills and mark effects. At character shrines in the graveyard, you spend points to increase specific stats or choose random to allocate the bonuses randomly.

• Calvin, Hero: A versatile leader who learns spells, healing, elemental strikes and finishing moves. His first mark grants Focus, increasing the triggering character's hit chance by 25%. His second mark has a different effect depending on who triggers it: Joan gains Inspired for 10% more magic damage; Louis heals all party members slightly and restores some magic; Margaret gains Bleeding, which deals damage over time and increases damage taken; Candace gains Candace Flurry, reducing damage dealt by 50% while granting 1 to 5 additional actions; Speedy receives all of her marks; and Dragon gains Flight, increasing evasion by 25%, critical chance by 10% and hit rate by 10%.
• Joan, Mage: Her elemental spells deal damage and inflict status effects against groups or single enemies. She can equip different spell books to gain more ways to damage enemies or buff the party. Her mark grants Inspired, increasing the triggering character's magic damage by 10%. She can be swapped with Candace.
• Margaret, Warrior: She combines powerful melee attacks and high defense with physical status effects. She excels at causing Bleeding, which deals damage over time and increases damage taken, and is one of the few characters who can inflict sunder. Her shield wall draws enemy attacks to her. Her mark inflicts Bleeding on an enemy when triggered. She can be swapped with Dragon.
• Louis, Priest: He can deal high single-target and area damage, heal the party and learn skills that cure specific status effects. His mark gives the triggering character a small amount of magic regeneration. He can be swapped with Speedy.
• Speedy, Cleric: She is the game's most powerful healer and can take more additional actions than any other character. She starts with 2 to 3 actions per turn and can reach 8 in one turn with the right gear and some luck. She can also blind enemies and deal heavy area damage with grenade skills. Her mark gives the triggering character a random stat boost: +25% HP, MP, Atk, Def, Mat, Mdf, Agi and/or Luk. She can be swapped with Louis.
• Candace, Heavy Gunner: A kind-hearted artificer, she uses firearms to deal damage and inflict status effects on enemies across the battlefield. She also has some buff skills, with a focus on dealing damage and combining skills. Her mark grants the triggering character 25% more maximum health and a small amount of health regeneration for a short time. She can be swapped with Joan.
• Dragon, Dragon: This immensely powerful being can return from the dead and join the party, though his inability to speak makes communication difficult. He uses breath attacks that inflict specific status effects on small or large groups, and cleaving strikes that can damage up to three targets. He wields two heavy weapons at once and has the highest stats of any party member, but needs significantly more EXP to level up. His mark grants Dragon Shield, which provides defensive buffs and makes all enemies target the character who receives it; it must be used carefully. He also has Calvin's second mark and can be swapped with Margaret.

Turn-based battles

You fight monsters that have spread through a valley once described as lush and peaceful. Spirits have turned violent, plants block paths and barren caves are infested with dangerous creatures. Battles use a wide range of skills, items and status effects.

Instant skills let you and enemies act multiple times when you have enough TP and MP. Agility determines turn order, while each skill's speed rating also affects when it can be used. Spells are usually slow and swords are fast, so you can experiment with different skill combinations.

Elemental damage

The game has eight elements, each with strengths, weaknesses and common effects:

• Fire: Weak to water and strong against earth; often causes burning.
• Water: Weak to air and strong against fire; often causes stagger.
• Earth: Weak to fire and strong against air; often causes bleeding, poison, stagger or sunder.
• Air: Weak to earth and strong against water; often affects additional enemies.
• Ice: Weak to earth and fire, and strong against water and air; often causes stagger, bleeding, chill or freeze.
• Electric: Weak to water and air, and strong against earth and fire; often causes burning or stun.
• Light/holy: Weak to darkness and physical damage, and strong against the other elements. Its spells often heal and can cause effects such as blind, silence and confusion.
• Darkness: Weak to light and physical damage, and strong against the other elements. It often causes silence, sleep or shadowed, which turns all damage dealt by the affected character into dark damage.