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搴舟游戏 · Published by 搴舟游戏
Content notice: Mild cartoon violence, including blood, fight, and death. The game story may include swearing, terrifying scenes, looting and killing, suicide, etc.
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Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Let's take an adventure to the origin of the ancient goldenland, Emerald. Start an epic journey to find the great runes, lost stories and reverse our broken destiny. Journey of Rune is an anime turn-based CRPG game with adventures and friendships. Just create your own story whatever you like!
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Adventure, RPG, Strategy, Early Access · 2025 · More £5 - £15 games
Embark on an adventure to uncover lost runes and reshape destiny in Journey of Rune. This anime-style game blends strategy, RPG elements, and friendship as you explore the origins of Emerald.
About this game
About Journey of Rune
You have been chosen by this powerful rune book and made a contract of destiny with the mystery fairy Meira. This book has been lost for ages, it ran off its power and fell into pieces. To discover the ancient secrets, you have to start your journey to Emerald, where the story began, in search of the legendary GoldenRune.However, when you take your step into this adventure... Secrets, murder and conspiracy appear everywhere. Follow the glory or plunge into the storm, even seek salvation from other runes, the fate of this world is in your hands.
Journey of Rune inspired by CRPGs and developed with anime style, to create wonderful fantastic adventures at our best.
To be the one of the story
Now you stand with this powerful rune book, the Goldenland, which forged GoldenRune dominated the world in centuries. Starting with one traveler who has fallen into a conspiracy, takes the lost power, gets new friendships, and then walks on the front line against the Chaos. You are falling into this mysterious storm, and every choice you make is very important.Pick up one of the ready-made roles, or customize your own character as yourself. Humans, elves, dwarves, half-human - each race has multiple subspecies with completely different talents. In addition, you can customize your character even more with their backgrounds, specifics and traits. Keep your idea, so that is what makes you really unique!
Step into the fantasy world
Emerald is an ancient fantastic land contains by different styles of scenery and historical ruins. There are not only wild fields and villages, but also beautiful forests and canyons, magnificent cities and bays. Even in the most mysterious places underground, there may be many dungeons attract adventurers to seek and explore. At this time, the rune book will guide you to this golden land, the place where the story began.Leap, teleport, detect, sneak - this diverse world is full of creatures, interactions, stories, secrets and treasures. Just try different ways to explore and solve any problems you met! There will never be only one way to reach your final target... up to how many choices in your pocket for sure.
Make friends and build up your party
Travel alone is risky, but bringing partners into your team will make your adventure much fun. Along the way, you will meet a bunch of people with their own stories, trying to build dynamic friendships with them would be interesting. Some of them live with special destinies... Even though they are not human-like, they have their own personalities as well and will respond to your choices and actions in a real manner. Friendships, loves, exploitation, breakups, betrayals - what happens between your relationships is unpredictable, and your choices may determine all the things there.Journey of Rune will also support Co-op gameplay mode, up to four. Go gather some buddies to join your adventure team and enjoy this fantastic story together!
Gain the power of runes
The runes are the key to magic power in this world.Therefore, the spells are created by runes; they will provide you many ways to enjoy adventures and explorations. Combinations of 9 ElementalRunes and dozens of StructuralRunes may create hundreds of spells, adding some MagicalKnowledge can further enhance spells as well. Spells of different elements clash on each other would produce special reactions like the flame burns the shield of thorns, the shock paralyzes the metal enemy and the crystalline beams seal frozen enemies... Why not try to throw more spells at your target and see what funny stuff is gonna happen?
Write down your own adventures
While the adventure begins, an bloody attack of madness walks with you, the heavy fog covers the sky and limits your sight. You have to go all the way forward to retrieve the lost rune power and fight against Chaos. Anything you do will determine what power you gain, what allies you gather, and what future you bring to this land.You will also face to many choices, from whether to water a parched field to which rune to follow as your creed. You can stand by what people think is right, or unleash your greed inside your head, but remember that any choice you have made any time, returns its own echo.
Explorations and adventures, relationships and choices, all the stories are unique and only exist because of you.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
Recommended
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-9700 or equivalent
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 40 GB available space
Supported Languages
English, Simplified Chinese
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Early Access Regular Update Announcement
Hello everyone!It’s time for another regular update! The main focus of this update is Stealth and Crime — you can finally sneak around and do a few naughty things! Although the system is still in its early framework stage, we will continue to expand and refine it step by step.In addition, we have added the opening story content for the Emerald scenario. This is a tutorial-like scene designed to help first-time players better understand the core concepts of our game.Update Highlights:Added the new Stealth and Crime system. NPC behavior has also been upgraded, and they will now react to the player’s unlawful actions.Improved the opening section of the Emerald scenario and added a new tutorial scene.Added new weapons, outfits, accessories, items, and skills.Optimized the visual effects of special terrain and mist.Finally, thank you all for your continued support and feedback. We will keep iterating and polishing the game throughout Early Access to make it even better!Read full article on Community Announcements (qzgdev)AnnouncementsOfficial
EA Beta v0.4.0 Release Announcement
Hello everyone~ We finally managed to deliver the latest build before Lunar New Year! This update brings major new systems, a large amount of new story content, and overall gameplay experience improvements.\Update OverviewSpecial Terrain SystemUsing skills or items, characters can now create special ground effects or clouds/mist in the world. These special terrains may help you devastate your enemies— or end up trapping you instead. Use them wisely!Everyone Is Moving Now!All characters in the scene now have their own schedules, and won’t just stand still anymore. These moving NPCs aren’t only more “lively” to look at—patrolling enemies, and even ambushers hidden in the shadows, will bring more challenges to your adventure.New Combat Mechanics & SkillsWe’ve added a new mechanic: Skill Focus. Skills with Focus can allow a character to maintain a powerful state, or sustain a special terrain effect (see the in-game encyclopedia for details). In addition, to better support the new combat mechanics and the Special Terrain System, we’ve reworked the effects of almost all skills.New Story & New AreasThis update delivers the main content of Chapter 1, with an estimated playtime of 3–4 hours. Compared to previous versions, we’ve added a large amount of new story and quests, and opened up more scenes and areas. It’s time to head into the Crimson Apostles’ lair and put an end to their conspiracy!Performance Optimization & MoreBeyond the major additions above, we’ve also improved performance. We’ve restructured how systems like combat, characters, and equipment operate, and we believe this will improve overall stability.Notes on Current Limitations (EA)Although this update adds a lot of content, there are still areas that need improvement. We’d like to share the following with you:A small number of models (characters and environments) are not finished yet and are currently replaced with temporary assets. We will fill in these art assets in future updates.Compared to a fully comp...Read full article on Community Announcements (qzgdev)Patch NotesOfficial
Early Access Beta 0.3.2
Fix some bugs.Read full article on Community Announcements (qzgdev)AnnouncementsOfficial
Early Access Beta 0.3.1 Release Announcement
Hello, everyone! Today we’re bringing you the latest v0.3.1 update.This update will be released for the Early Access (EA) version (the Demo version will not be updated). It includes the first part of Chapter 1 of our main storyline, “Emerald ”. This update includes:About 1.5 hours of story content, mainly taking place inside the village (the Chapter 1 setting), “Luka Village”.1 new companion! Her character art is not the final version yet, but we believe her story and skills will give you a refreshing, “different” experience.Added a “Encyclopedia” feature. When viewing the effects of equipment, skills, or items, you can click embedded links at any time to see explanations of related terms.A character creation system: create your character from scratch!UI improvements and performance optimizations.Some current visuals and voice/audio may still have issues—thank you for your understanding. We also welcome all feedback on your play experience (and bug reports).Our next update is currently expected to arrive around mid-February next year. For details on what’s coming, please keep an eye on our future development logs!Read full article on Community Announcements (qzgdev)AnnouncementsOfficial
Development Log (November 2025)
Greetings, players! It's been a while.It has been nearly three months since our last version release. During this time, we have been working on significant internal framework modifications, which has slowed down our content update progress. We sincerely apologize for this. We are planning the next update for December. Now, let's briefly introduce the content coming in the next update!Game Content:We will be introducing our brand-new main scenario, "Emerald," in the EA version! The game content for this update includes:Most areas and events in Chapter 1, "Luka Village." Compared to the previous version, we have optimized the scene presentation, gameplay routes, and quest branches.A new companion! She wields special shadow magic and has versatile abilities, though her personality is a bit... well, she's a great partner nonetheless!Several new weapons, pieces of equipment, over a dozen new skills, and a large number of new accessories.Features:The Encyclopedia Link feature is now live! When viewing the effects of equipment, skills, or items, you can now click the links on them to find definitions for specific terms. You can now create custom characters in the initial character creation interface! Start by choosing your character's race and sub-race, customize their class and traits, and finally adjust their appearance to create your very own protagonist! (The current options are still somewhat limited, but we will gradually expand and improve them!) The Trait system has been improved. You can unlock new traits and more trait points as you progress in the game, allowing you to swap out traits and shape your character!Other:Optimized some UI elements.Made some performance optimizations.We spent a lot of time migrating the engine version and refactoring our framework recently. Therefore, this upcoming update is primarily focused on "content" rather than major new system implementations.We have a longer-term plan to implement "revolutionary changes" to the combat system, s...Read full article on Community Announcements (qzgdev)
