Flowstone Saga

Flowstone Saga is a role-playing adventure about Mirai, a young adventurer who discovers an ancient power beneath ruins in Ocean's End. With her pet Sprig, she uses this power to repair, build and fight as she helps develop her home of New Riverstone, faces the Scarlet Tusk Pirates and Byzankar Empire, searches for treasure and makes friends across the world. The story also explores the secrets of Mirai's past.

Puzzle-based battles

Combat combines falling-block puzzles with real-time action, with an optional turn-based style called Hold Mode. Mirai can face up to three monsters at once, while enemies act automatically in real time. Clearing lines deals regular damage, and clearing several lines at once makes attacks more powerful. Matching Link Crystals builds Heat to increase damage; Orbs can heal Mirai or trigger special attacks, and the Flask lets her throw item effects onto the board.

Mirai unlocks Powers that add elemental magic such as Fire, Ice and Lightning, let her hurl pieces at enemies or create giant pieces, repair the board and strengthen combos. Equipment, a customizable Flask, a passive Perk tree and a Job (Frog) System offer further ways to shape strategies. Enemies can disrupt the board and hurt Mirai with abilities such as fire breath, paralysis, sandstorms and lasers that destroy tiles.

Hold Mode

You can switch to Hold Mode at any time. Blocks stop falling, so you can move them at your leisure, and enemies no longer attack in real time. Each time you lock a piece into place, enemy action bars advance slightly; the game shows how many pieces remain before each enemy acts, giving you time to plan. The mode is balanced for the game's RPG systems and is intended to be playable for puzzle novices as well as experienced players.

Explore Ocean's End

You travel across islands, searching for treasure, gathering resources, solving ancient puzzles and uncovering mysteries in dozens of handcrafted maps and dungeons. Mirai can restore mysterious structures that others cannot: some are needed to progress, such as ladders and bridges, while optional structures can reward you with gold and experience. Other hidden areas require specific Powers and offer special bonuses.

Build New Riverstone

You help New Riverstone grow by befriending its residents and completing main and side quests. Shops and dungeons hold decorative items for personalizing your house and adding trees, statues, water features and other features around town. You can also enter the Mines with Hagan, a two-minute minigame where clearing more lines yields more resources.

Building the Bistro lets you learn more about the townspeople, hear their concerns and develop relationships. Buddying Up with your best friend unlocks powerful battle effects.

Enemies and encounters

Monsters have abilities that can swap blocks, sap life, remove tiles, throw boulders, blind Mirai or paralyze her. Examples include:

• Jade Beetles: send Armor Tiles onto the board when attacked, protecting themselves from most damage until the tiles are cleared.
• Bawliflowers and Brawliflower: Bawliflowers heal their big brother, and Brawliflower becomes enraged if the healer is defeated.
• Axolittles: slash attacks that deal damage and chop tiles from the board, leaving holes.
• Floracondas: place thorny shields over part of the board; clearing them damages Mirai.
• TumTum Frog: eats Mirai's biggest attacks and spits them back out, but can take extra damage while full.
• Borras: the pirate captain smashes holes in the board that prevent lines from being cleared in those areas.
• Bone Crabs: briefly prevent Mirai from rotating pieces.

Local co-op assist

A second player can join or leave during local two-player assist mode, using a second input device. They have their own action bar, which recharges alongside Mirai's, and can use battle actions to put helpful items on the board, buff Mirai, stun monsters or throw trash at them to deal damage.

More to discover

The game includes multiple difficulty settings, from a more relaxed, story-focused playthrough to a challenge for puzzle and tactical skills. It features pixel art with large monster sprites, detailed backgrounds and expressive animations, a soundtrack of over 70 songs performed by live musicians, and an Extreme Flow Fishing minigame that provides combat buffs.