Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland

The 4th entry in the Atelier "Arland" series, released 10 years after Atelier Rorona's launch date. Learn about the world of Arland in Lulua’s perspective as she deciphers the mysterious “Alchemyriddle” book…

79 20 March 2019

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Comedy Fantasy

Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland is an adventure developed by Gust, released 20 March 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland is

Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland is an adventure game developed by Gust and released in 2019. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Katana Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"To the future's most promising alchemist, I entrust this Alchemyriddle." This is a tale of a curry loving girl who lives in Arklys, a small town located on the border of the Arland Republic. Her dream is to live up to the success of her mother by learning to master alchemy. Her purpose remains unknown until a mysterious book drops from the sky, which unravels a future filled with new knowledge related to the challenges and people she comes across all throughout her discoveries across Arland as she deciphers the keywords from this book.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Atelier series

Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland is the 52nd of 85 entries we hold in the Atelier series. The next entry was Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout in 2019. Its critic score of 79 is 7 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland at 90.

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How it was received

Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland launched on 20 March 2019, within three weeks of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Tom Clancy's The Division 2 and Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced.