“It should not be this tough to play one of the best model of one in all Japan’s nice roguelikes right now,” PC Gamer contributor Kerry Brunskill wrote earlier this yr in a retelling of her lengthy battle to get her palms on a PC copy of 2002’s Shiren the Wanderer: Monster of Moonlight Village. She additionally expressed hope that the most recent sport within the collection, the Nintendo Swap-exclusive Thriller Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island, would finally make its technique to PC. Excellent news for Kerry—it is on the way in which, and you will not must get somebody in Japan to mail it to you.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Thriller Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is now listed as “coming quickly” to Steam, with all 4 of the free characteristic updates included. The Plus Pack, with 10 new dungeons and different content material, will even be accessible as DLC, as will the Serpentcoil Island soundtrack.
The Thriller Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island sees Shiren the Wandered and his companion Koppa—a speaking ferret—in pursuit of gold, treasure, and a mysterious girl in misery. “Within the Thriller Dungeon, the format of its many flooring, the instruments you receive inside, and the presence of each pals and foes are totally different each time you enter,” the Steam web page says. “The state of affairs modifications every time, so it is as much as you to arrange and adapt to surprising challenges as they seem. Arm your self with information of the dungeon’s threats, accumulate helpful assets, and collect allies to make it via. Try to achieve the dungeon’s deepest depths and highest summits!”
The Shiren the Wanderer collection has been round actually for many years: The primary, Thriller Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, got here out in 1995 for the Tremendous NES and far in a while the Nintendo DS. (Shiren the Wanderer is a by-product of the even older Thriller Dungeon collection—there is a cause Kerry wrote that the unique “launched a thousand roguelikes” and that “even the likes of Hades owe this collection at the least a respectful nod.”) Quite a few Shiren sequels have been launched since, however nearly none have made it to PC. The one exception, except for Serpentcoil Island, is Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Cube of Destiny, which arrived on Steam in 2020.
A launch date for Shiren the Wanderer: The Thriller Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island on Steam hasn’t been introduced, however Spike Chunsoft stated will probably be out someday in winter 2025.
