Destiny Spire

Destiny Spire is a role-playing adventure in which you travel across an overworld, explore dungeons and towns, and uncover a mystery behind a diplomatic mission. After strange dreams of an unknown voice, you are chosen by King Rasmus of Rumalea to represent him at peace talks among the four kingdoms. Too ill to travel, the king sends you toward the capital, Kongkarlsberg, with three of his warriors. Obstacles repeatedly block your way, and you follow clues and investigate the past to learn who is behind them and what is really happening.

Your party

The king’s questions determine your class. Before setting out, you can recruit three more party members of any class; up to eight characters can join your party, though you can take only four at a time. The eight classes have different strengths:

• Rangers: quick, with decent physical and magical attributes.
• Wizards: physically weak, but capable of the most powerful magic attacks.
• Barbarians: rely on brute strength to make up for weak magical attributes.
• Monks: resist magic attacks well and can heal.
• Archers: quick, with decent attack and defense, but weaker magical attributes.
• Mystics: use less powerful magic than wizards, but can hold their own without it.
• Paladins: less strong than barbarians, with some magical attributes.
• Bird Masters: have decent attributes across the board.

Active-time combat

Battles use an active-time system rather than turns. Enemies attack whenever their speed bar fills, and your characters can act when their own bars are full. You can attack with a weapon, use a skill or use an item, choosing any ready character; characters left on standby can take emergency actions such as healing. Combat does not pause while you choose an action.

You can make speed bars fill faster, set global battle speed to half or double speed, and adjust the encounter rate to half or double. Attacks do not miss at random: you can miss by targeting an empty spot or attacking an enemy while it is attacking, while striking just before an enemy attacks scores a critical hit. Each character carries their own items, which cannot be transferred during combat; if a character falls in battle, their items are unavailable.

Encounters and traits

As you explore the overworld and dungeons, creatures periodically emerge from the ground. Touching one starts a battle if you do not evade it before it sinks back down. Smaller creatures are more likely to start fights with fewer enemies than larger ones. You may instead meet a fairy, which gives a random bonus: a small item, extra gold, or an HP or MP restore.

Every couple of levels, when characters are not learning new skills, they can gain traits. Each class has its own pool, and each selection presents four random traits to choose from. Traits provide automatic situational perks, such as bonuses for using particular weapons or elements, a chance to stun with certain attacks, stronger healing spells, or special effects when using items. They help differentiate party members and vary later playthroughs.

World and content

The adventure offers about 20–30 hours of gameplay, with over 200 enemy types and more than a dozen dungeons. You explore an open overworld, dungeons, towns and castles, with secrets to discover. There are nearly 90 traits described for characters, while the feature list also advertises 100 different traits to learn. Accessibility options include changing how often enemies appear.