Shattered Hourglass

Shattered Hourglass is a challenging turn-based JRPG in which your choices shape the story and affect your party. In the mage town of Habon, Time Mages can alter history and change the course of fate, making them targets of the Mage Slayer. You decide whether to resist your fate or fall prey to the Slayer, and can choose to be good, bad, neutral or a housekeeper.

Story and choices

Your journey spans four story routes, with decisions that permanently change the story and can lead to 10 different endings. Critical choices are recorded in the Karma Book like entries in a diary. The story includes optional activities and dungeons, and the game offers over 40 hours of content.

Your party

You form a party of five from nine playable characters and six temporary characters. Party members have unique Job Classes and skills, and leveling them up unlocks new skills and Job Classes. The journey also involves saving people, meeting party members with opposing outlooks, exploring new worlds, fighting creatures and traveling through time.

Battles and discoveries

Fight over 60 bosses, with 70 listed among the bosses to find. The game also contains 240 monsters, 130 weapons, over 280 items and 260 pieces of armor. In Arena Battles, you rank up by defeating bosses and earn rewards; the Identify Book stores data on items, weapons, armor and monsters.

Activities and features

Alongside the story, you can take on side quests and bounty missions, find Easter eggs, and solve puzzles, riddles and quizzes. You can upgrade your house with parts, decorations, animals and crops, and fish for 48 unique species from across the world.