Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island

Shiren the Wanderer and his companion, Koppa the talking ferret, return for an all-new roguelike dungeon crawling adventure on Serpentcoil Island! After receiving a vision of a mysterious girl held captive by…

86 25 January 2024

Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Spike Chunsoft, released 25 January 2024 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 4 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Spike Chunsoft and released in 2024. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

A few months after their previous adventure in Tsukikage Village... Shiren the Wanderer and Koppa, his talking ferret partner, received a vision of a distant land and a girl in distress. It led them to the mysterious Serpentcoil Island. But they're not alone. Rumors speak of lost pirate gold hidden away within the depths of Serpentcoil Island, and a powerful monster at its highest mountain peak said to hold an exquisite treasure in its belly. Adventurers and warriors have flocked from all over the realm, eager for a chance at fortune. What is the connection between the mystery girl and the monster? What is the truth behind the secrets and treasures scattered throughout the island? A new…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Mystery Dungeon series

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is the 39th of 39 entries we hold in the Mystery Dungeon series. It arrived 3 years after Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 86 is 16 points above the series average of 70. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island launched on 25 January 2024, within three weeks of Helldivers 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Persona 3 Reload and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Helldivers 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Persona 3 Reload, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.

Cheats and codes

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