Cladun Returns: This Is Sengoku! (v2017.06.22)

Feudal Japan becomes a strange afterlife battleground where restless souls cannot move on until their old regrets are settled. Cladun Returns: This Is Sengoku! mixes brisk, top-down action-RPG dungeon crawling with a playful pixel-art presentation, sending players from the spiritual realm of Arcanus Cella to distorted versions of Sengoku-era locations. The mood balances ghosts, monsters, and dangerous traps with the series’ deliberately silly humor and charmingly chunky retro visuals. Beneath its lighthearted surface sits a demanding adventure built around quick reactions, smart preparation, and learning how each compact dungeon is put together.

Players create a hero, choose weapons and magic, then hack, shoot, and dodge through maze-like stages packed with enemies and environmental hazards. Character growth comes from better gear, artifacts, class choices, and the unusual Magic Circle system, which places supporting allies in formations around the active fighter to boost stats, provide protection, and unlock tactical advantages. Dungeons reward careful route planning as much as aggression, especially when traps, cramped corridors, and high-damage foes punish careless rushing. Local-style cooperative dungeon runs let friends tackle stages together, while competitive modes and online time rankings give speedrunners reasons to replay familiar maps until every movement is efficient.

Its best feature is the enormous degree of personalization: characters, equipment, and even pixel artwork can be edited at an individual-pixel level, then shared with other players. That makes the game feel closer to an action RPG crossed with a tiny creative toolkit, and the Magic Circle formations add more party-management depth than its simple visuals initially suggest. The fixed-screen, retro dungeon design recalls older Japanese action games more than sprawling modern loot RPGs, so players wanting an open world may find it restrictive. It suits veterans who enjoy tuning builds and shaving seconds from runs, but newcomers can also enjoy it if they appreciate arcade-like challenge, cheerful customization, and fast dungeon sessions.