Ericanskinsmonsters

Ericanskinsmonsters is a single-player, story-rich JRPG about Erica, a skinner’s daughter who gathers three troubled companions to hunt powerful God-Beasts and take revenge on an old Necromancer. The group’s quest unfolds in a dying world threatened by monsters, with difficult choices, mature themes, violence and strong language.

The party

Erica’s four-member party brings together five classes, and can also summon a flesh golem. You can buy spells from shops to fill gaps in your strategy, while accounting for skill weapon requirements and mana limits.

• Flaymancer: Erica uses rogue-like attacks that inflict heavy damage and bleeding. She can also spend 20 flesh to summon Drippy, a formidable golem.
• Markswoman: Lucy uses firearms and explosives to deal heavy damage and inflict status effects. A permanent early-game stat increase can scale her attacks, and a late-game skill helps keep the party focused on targets.
• Knight-errant: Grimlock’s host body is a banished knight who protects the party and may sacrifice himself for his allies. He uses heavy armor, shields, swords and axes, with abilities to bolster defense, taunt, shatter enemy defenses and stun opponents.
• Bloodzerker: Adam’s other personality, Grimlock, sacrifices health for power and unleashes heavy attacks. He starts with no mana and is immune to light-based effects, including healing from party members, but can recover through life-steal attacks, potions and regeneration. Switching between Adam and Grimlock fully restores their health during combat.
• Sorceror: Grendel heals and cleanses the party, as well as dealing much of its spell damage. His elemental attacks exploit enemy weaknesses, and his light damage is effective against undead. His single-target heal deals heavy damage to undead and later gains a revive effect. As the party hunts Ancient monsters, Grendel absorbs their energy and gains their abilities.

Exploration and quests

You explore more than 90 handcrafted locations, including towns, dungeons, world maps, inns, hidden areas and dangerous wilderness. The world also contains shops, mazes, puzzles, traps, secret content and hidden legendary gear, alongside an evolving story and class system.

The quest system highlights the main quest and its targets of revenge. Hidden quests, secret treasures, and clues to legendary weapons and armor are scattered throughout Strifestav, but are not tracked in the quest log. The guidance is loose, though certain tasks and enemies must be dealt with to progress.

Tactical combat

Combat uses turn-based tactics and features more than 200 abilities, 100 status effects, cooldown management, armor and spell resistances, dodging, bleeding, stuns and instant death. Enemies have varied mechanics, so encounters call for planning as well as stronger equipment. Boss fights are designed to be challenging.

Nightfall and Drippy

A day-night cycle makes undead enemies stronger, more numerous and more dangerous after dark. You can rest at campsites to recover or skip the night, provided you have collected enough wood.

Drippy is a resilient, powerful summon, but his time in battle is limited to a handful of rounds. Summoning him requires 20 skins from battle drops, making him an option for emergencies and difficult boss fights.