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Vagrant Shifter

LumiTDog

A turn-based Psychological Horror JRPG about Life, Death, and all that we leave behind...

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Vagrant Shifter is a violent and surreal turn-based psychological horror RPG about life, death, and memories.

  • Control an eclectic cast of aliens, corpses, and one beaver

  • Engage in dynamic turn-based combat featuring a unique positional combat system

  • Grow your stats by eating at pubs and partaking in small talk with your friends

  • Find equipment and learn skills by completing strange and varied side quests

  • Get a vessel. You'll need it.

"The shape you have been assigned will be useful."

Your species are shapeshifters. Use this to your advantage.

  • Navigate the world

  • Solve puzzles

  • Find hidden secrets

"People don't tend to just stand there and take it, dude."

In a twist on classic turn-based combat, the positioning of your foes matters.

  • Enemies move around strategically during combat

  • Use skills with a variety of target shapes, with some having different effects depending on where they're aimed

  • Control their positions, or use their own movement against them

"You just gonna sit around on your ass all day?"

The world is vast and varied.

  • Explore 10+ unique areas through heavily open-ended progression

  • Encounter a variety of strange quests, exciting mini-games, and odd situations

  • Quickly travel between zones through a mix of canals and monorails

"Some of your memories don't belong to you."

You're an amalgamation of the present, and several pasts.

Shortly after your creation, and wrapped up in conspiracy, you and a pair of revolutionaries are forced to flee your home world. You barely escaped, and wound up here.

Your quest is simple: Explore this new land, find your companions, and return home.

Though you may find "home" isn't all it was cracked up to be.

To help you survive, you were given a single piece of advice:

Find a corpse.

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    OCTOBER '26 PROGRESS REPORT

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    SEPTEMBER '26 PROGRESS REPORT

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  3. Vagrant ShifterSteam announcement

    JULY '26 PROGRESS REPORT

    Another month complete! Time sure does fly. Like last month, the majority of my time here was spent refining the content that will eventually become the game's demo, with a mix…

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    JUNE '26 PROGRESS UPDATE

    It's the end of the month, so you know what that means! No, actually, you don't. This is the first one of these that I'm doing, but apparently doing news posts like this is good…

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