Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate

After stopping the revival of a demon god at the Magic Castle of the Desert, Shiren and Koppa set off in search of new adventures. Soon thereafter, our heroes wandered into small village. This village, Inori…

83 9 December 2010

Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Spike Chunsoft, released 9 December 2010 on Nintendo DS.

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What Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Spike Chunsoft and released in 2010. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is a roguelike role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft. It is the fifth main entry in the Shiren the Wanderer series, which is a subset of the larger Mystery Dungeon series. It was originally released for the Nintendo DS in 2010 in Japan.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 55 achievements to unlock.

Where it sits in the Mystery Dungeon series

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is the 28th of 39 entries we hold in the Mystery Dungeon series. It arrived 9 months after Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4 - Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso. The next entry was Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4 Plus - Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso in 2012. Its critic score of 83 is 13 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island at 86.

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How it was received

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, or better, 2 GB RAM and DirectX 11.0 compatible GPU with at least 1GB of VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate launched on 9 December 2010, within three weeks of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Donkey Kong Country Returns and Gran Turismo 5. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Gran Turismo 5.

Screenshots

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Dlc

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Quick answers

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate — frequently asked questions

When did Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate come out?

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate was released on 9 December 2010 for Nintendo DS.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate?

At minimum, Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate needs Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, or better, 2 GB RAM, DirectX 11.0 compatible GPU with at least 1GB of VRAM graphics, 4GB MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate?

The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4GB MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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