Koruldia Heritage is a beautiful hand-drawn RPG, 8 years in the making

Working on a solo indie project strikes me as a very difficult prospect. For every Stardew Valley (which took creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone four years to make), there are plenty of other games that never see the light of day. So to spend most of a decade trying to make a game with your significant other sounds like a good way to compound that difficulty. That’s exactly what Reddit user Iriekoru and their boyfriend are doing, however. Last week, they posted footage from their upcoming game Koruldia Heritage, a hand-drawn pixel art RPG that the pair has been working on for more than eight years. In a trailer posted to Reddit, which you can check out towards the bottom of the article, you can take a look at the incredibly detailed hand-drawn environments and character art. There’s also a brief look at combat and some parts of the game’s story. According to Iriekoru, who started their game-making career via Neopets, Koruldia Heritage is scheduled for release at the end of 2020.