Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World
A spin-off in the Atelier franchise featuring characters from past games. The game focuses on town building and management. The main character is not an alchemist, unlike the main games in the franchise, but…
Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Gust, released 31 January 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World is
Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Gust and released in 2019. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A spin-off in the Atelier franchise featuring characters from past games. The game focuses on town building and management. The main character is not an alchemist, unlike the main games in the franchise, but she can work with them and let them manage an atelier in town making it their own. Gust hopes to make this game its own series in the future while working on the main line of Atelier games.
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
Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World is the 51st of 85 entries we hold in the Atelier series. The next entry was Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland in 2019. Its critic score of 76 is 4 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland at 90.
How it was received
Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World launched on 31 January 2019, within three weeks of Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III and Slay the Spire. All of them reviewed better. 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: Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire.
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