Dragon Quest Builders To Arrive in Europe This October

The success of sandbox construction games like Minecraft or Terraria left a meaning mark on the gaming industry. Dragon Quest Builders is just the latest example, with Square Enix jumping on the bandwagon.

This sandbox action RPG has just been confirmed for a European release on October 14, 2022 for PlayStation four and PS Vita (digital merely); the game volition launch in N America 3 days before.

Hither'due south an excerpt of the story and gameplay mechanics from an official weblog post:

Dragon Quest Builders really follows a "what if" story following the original Dragon Quest. In this story the realm has been destroyed because the Hero (from DQ1) who was supposed to relieve the world by defeating the evil Dragonlord, actually got tempted into accepting a sham deal with him. This plunges the country into darkness and despair and the few survivors scattered effectually the world no longer sympathize the concept of creativity and live through scavenging what remains among ruins.
This is where Dragon Quest Builders begins! The protagonist (that's you), who can exist either a boy or a girl, is awoken by a Guardian Spirit every bit the Legendary Builder who is the only person in the world with the knowledge to create objects through combination and imagination. It's now up to you to rebuild the world and restore it to its former glory!

Gameplay
Dragon Quest Builders is a sandbox action RPG where your imagination is the limit! Everything plays out in real time and the world is fabricated entirely of blocks (although it may not look that blocky) and you tin apply these blocks to build pretty much whatever y'all want. Building is piece of cake and can exist done in three steps:
Plan what you're going to build!
Assemble your resource!
Begin construction and create your masterpiece!
At that place is an overarching main storyline to follow in Dragon Quest Builders and then if you want a narrative to get attached to and pull yous through, that'southward in there too. It wouldn't be a Dragon Quest game without one after all! Oh and there'southward enough of quirky side quests and NPCs to give you that total RPG feel, just with the additional sandbox gameplay and monsters to boxing as well.

In example you lot're even more than curious about Dragon Quest Builders now, picket the twenty minutes long gameplay video below.