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Better Luck Next Run

A roguelite classic turn-based JRPG. Draft your party from 50 unique characters. Customize their skills, weapons, and items. Build and conquer the dungeon. Die trying.

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Bare Minimum Media Inc.
Publisher
Bare Minimum Media Inc.
Release
April 27, 2026
97 days ago
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About the Game

A roguelite classic turn-based JRPG built in RPG Maker MZ. Draft your party. Customize their skills, weapons, and items. Conquer the dungeon. Die trying.

Better Luck Next Run takes the classic turn-based JRPG formula from the 16-bit era and adds roguelite elements to it. Every run offers new combinations from over 400 options.

Draft Your Party: Choose from 50 unique characters, each with their own class, weapon type, stats, and playstyle. Equip them with weapons, skills, and items from a pool of 400+ options.

Classic Turn-Based Combat: Exploit elemental weaknesses across 10 biomes, each with unique enemies and shrines. A standard run takes roughly 30-60 minutes.

Epic Boss Battles: Face 5 challenging bosses, each demanding different strategies to overcome.

Permanent Progression: Spend gold at the shop to permanently unlock new weapons, skills, characters, and items. Changes occur in the hub with every run.

Secrets Await: There are plenty of secrets to unlock. Completing your first run is just the beginning.

Features

  • 50 characters, 100+ skills, 250 weapons, 50 items

  • 10 biomes with unique elemental enemies and shrine effects

  • 5 challenging boss encounters

  • Persistent hub with permanent unlocks

  • Challenge modifiers for increased difficulty and rewards

  • Steam Achievements and Cloud Save

  • Keyboard, mouse, and controller support

  • Full Steam Deck support

*While I did use Claude Code to assist in development (solo developer), I would like to support artists as a former professional photographer. A portion of all revenue generated by this game will go directly to paying a starving artist (or two) to create original RPG Maker MZ assets for Better Luck Next Run. I would like to replace all the enemy art and environment art with custom, handcrafted assets from real artists. So by supporting this game, you'll be supporting an artist or two.

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