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Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX

The first game in the Atelier Arland trilogy and 11th game in the main Atelier franchise The Arland trilogy is the 5th set of games in the Atelier franchise. This is a port of the 2013 PlayStation 3 and Vita…

80 20 September 2018

Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Gust, released 20 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX is

Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Gust and released in 2018. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on PhyreEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the city of Arland, a girl named Rorolina Frixell ("Rorona") works studiously as the apprentice at the workshop of the genius alchemist Astrid Zexis. An unexpected knock at the door comes with a declaration that the kingdom wishes to shut the workshop down unless it can prove it is valuable enough to keep running. Astrid, aloof and disinterested, abdicates responsibility for the atelier, leaving Rorona to save her budding career on her own. Can Rorona meet the Castle's growing demands to save the shop and her future?
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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Atelier series

Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX is the 48th of 85 entries we hold in the Atelier series. The next entry was Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland DX in 2018. Its critic score of 80 is 8 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 Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX launched on 20 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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When did Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX come out?
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland DX was released on 20 September 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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