A roguelite classic turn-based JRPG built in RPG Maker MZ. Draft your party. Customize their skills, weapons, and items. Conquer the dungeon. Die trying.
A roguelite classic turn-based JRPG built in RPG Maker MZ. Draft your party. Customize their skills, weapons, and items. Conquer the dungeon. Die trying.
Better Luck Next Run takes the classic turn-based JRPG formula from the 16-bit era and adds roguelite elements to it. As you navigate a grid-based dungeon, choose from a variety of different rooms, each with their own shrine upgrades and elemental enemies.
Assemble your party from 50 different characters who can learn any combination of the 50 skills available in the game. Each character has their own unique weapon type, with five weapons available to them. Half of the 250 weapons have passive abilities that can completely transform a run.
The possibilities are endless and nothing is more satisfying than creating a party of tanks who can heal and nuke all the mobs. No two runs are ever the same.
Customize your party from over 400 options: 250 weapons, 50 skills, 50 characters, and 50 items. Every run offers new combinations.
Each character has a unique class, weapon type, stats, and playstyle. Form the party you want with a wide range of melee, caster, support, and healer choices.
Each biome features unique elemental enemies and shrines. Harness the power of the shrines to make your party overpowered.
Face 5 challenging bosses, each demanding different strategies. Adapt your party and tactics to survive.
Spend gold at the shop to permanently unlock new weapons, skills, characters, and items. More hidden meta progression awaits you.
There are plenty of secrets to unlock. Completing your first run is just the beginning. What awaits you in the depths of the dungeon?
Better Luck Next Run is available on PC (Steam) and is fully compatible with Steam Deck.
A standard run takes roughly 30-60 minutes depending on your pace and party composition.
Yes! Gold can be spent at the shops during each run to permanently unlock new weapons, skills, characters, and items. Create new and more powerful synergies with every run.
After each battle, you're presented with 3 randomized options. Pick one to add to your party. It could be a new character, a skill, a weapon, or a consumable item. Strategy comes from building synergies with what you're offered.
Your party can hold up to 4 characters. With 50 characters to draft from, the combinations are endless.
Better Luck Next Run is a solo developer project from the creator of FullCleared.com, Jason Siu. Development was assisted by Claude (Anthropic), but all assets in the game are from RPG Maker MZ. If you'd like to support the game, a portion of initial revenue goes toward a starving artist to create original enemy art, character and environment sprites, animations, and more. Generative AI was not used for any of the art you see, but it did assist with the code.
Yes! We have plans for post-launch content including new characters, biomes, and more. Follow us on social media and join our Discord to stay updated!