Origin Hunt

Origin Hunt is a story-rich game set in Lenma, a country that has known relative peace for over 500 years under a truce with its Origin Mages. These masters of the elements keep their monsters away from human populations, maintaining stability. After a tragic event years ago, one individual begins a final, bloody quest for justice, and a kidnapped monster in a foreign country becomes caught in a secret war between seven of the most powerful mages alive.

You follow realistic, relatable characters with distinct personalities as their beliefs and agendas clash. Choices have lasting consequences: how you treat your party and the people you meet can change how they interact with you. As you uncover hidden history, you decide who is right and who deserves a punch, while the protagonist just wants to go home.

Turn-based combat

Battles use animated enemies, lively action sequences and unique skills for party members. Characters are not locked into roles, so you can build your team without class restrictions by combining skills and equipment. Bosses have extensive skillsets, passive abilities and hand-coded AI designed to use their abilities to the fullest. Their fights test your knowledge of the mechanics, and none has a single solution: you can choose a cautious approach or create a team built around exploiting mechanics.

You can customize characters into unexpected roles, such as a healer who deals heavy damage, a tank who focuses on debuffs or a rogue who provides critical support and manipulates turn order. Gear and skill customization let you develop different tactics for each fight, including builds the developer did not anticipate.

Gear and appearance

Changeable augments give weapons traits such as Bloodthirsty, which drains health, and Suffering, which uses a debuff to increase your attack. Armour can have customizable stats, traits and set-effect bonuses. Spined armour turns an enemy’s strength against them, while Broken armour makes you take extra damage. Party transmogs let you change your characters’ appearance in combat.

The calendar and quests

A day-and-night cycle affects the game, including skill bonuses and quests. A calendar brings in-game holiday events, and you can pursue a romance with someone in the capital city. Events include exchanging candy for costumes and interrupting an annual hunt to chase a squirrel through a marshland, where you may become the hunted yourself.

Exploration and content

The game includes discoverable areas, hidden superbosses, engaging quests and in-game achievements. It offers approximately 70 hours of gameplay: about 60 hours for the main story and 10 hours of optional content.