I’m sharing this draft of the Steam Store page for Korulimbo as a way to bring this old forum back to life!
It’s a more comfortable place than social media to discuss and read through the text.
The content is already quite close to what will appear on Steam during the wishlist phase, though it may evolve a bit before the final release.
Let me know what you think (if anything feels unclear, too dense, or worth expanding.) Feedback is very welcome!
Je profite de la mise en ligne de ce brouillon du Steam Store de Korulimbo pour faire revivre un peu ce bon vieux forum !
Ce sera plus pratique et confortable qu’un réseau social pour échanger autour du texte et de la présentation du jeu.
Le contenu est déjà très proche de la version qui apparaîtra sur Steam pendant la période de wishlist, même s’il évoluera sûrement d’ici la sortie finale.
Dites-moi ce que vous en pensez (si certains passages méritent d’être clarifiés, allégés ou développés.) Vos retours sont les bienvenus !
KORULIMBO – Koruldia Heritage
Tagline
A pixel-painted JRPG about remembrance, renewal, and the quiet will to keep going.
Short description
Explore a distant, broken world suspended in the violet haze of Koruldia.
Battle through ruins, dive beneath the surface, and uncover fragments of forgotten lives.
A story-driven JRPG blending exploration, reflection, and turn-based combat that rewards both patience and curiosity.
Long description
Far beyond Earth, in an age where time has eroded meaning, humanity’s immense digital legacy has merged into a strange violet medium known as Koruldia.
A sea of condensed data, built from everything humanity ever was. Each droplet holds echoes of memories, data, emotions, fragments of minds.
An ocean of data that became matter. Within it, new life forms have emerged, some peaceful, others distorted by the noise of the past.
You are Kiza, a wanderer learning to stay focused and lucid amid that noise, navigating crumbled ruins, quiet settlements, and submerged zones where memory and matter blur.
Early in your journey, you bond with a Korumon, a living echo born from the same dataflow. The two are linked in a subtle symbiosis: when one is struck, both endure.
Combat is turn-based and resource-driven, built around two intertwined energies: Vita Points (VP), the body’s endurance, and Arkana Points (AP), the flow of inner energy representing will.
Breaking an enemy’s AP can silence its strongest attacks or weaken its resolve, creating space to recover, strike, or sometimes spare those who have not yet fully lost themselves, hinting at what they once were.
Victory grants classic experience and growth, yet exploration offers quieter paths.
Between battles, you can enter your vessel and dive in first person through Koruldia’s depths.
These dives are calm and almost timeless. You explore crystalline structures, collect KoruGems, and refine corrupted fragments into strength.
It’s not a replacement for battle progression but a quiet alternative, giving space to pause and grow between conflicts.
Your discoveries are archived in the KoruDex, an illustrated bestiary with atmospheric backdrops.
Each entry hints at origins, corruption paths, and ties to the larger world. Some are remnants of what might have been humanity, others the results of its forgotten experiments.
Among the most common creatures, the Koruldryads and their more bestial counterparts can affect Kiza’s mind with emotional attacks, turning affection into confusion.
In these moments, your Korumon remains clear-minded, a symbol of resilience, able to restore balance or defend you.
Yet not every threat is external.
In the quiet of the dives, or the flicker between thoughts, something else stirs, a shadowed reflection of Kiza himself, born from the same corrupted flow.
This dark echo feeds on despair and cynicism, whispering to surrender, to stop refining and start absorbing the negativity that surrounds him.
Is it a parasite, a projection, or a version of himself that never healed; it’s hard to tell.
Its presence reminds that the hardest battles are fought within, against the part of ourselves that finds comfort in the dark.
As you travel, faint voices surface, names like Juna and Areya, echoes of an age still whispering through the flow.
One calls for renewal, the other clings to control.
Together they remind that even in a sea of corrupted data, fragments of empathy and hope can survive, alongside the lingering instinct to dominate others.
The more you learn, the more uncertain the boundaries between biological and artificial life become.
Perhaps beings like Kiza are simply what humanity became: shapes still wired to act human, long after the need to.
Korulimbo is a contemplative turn-based JRPG about exploring what remains of meaning.
Rather than focus on decay, it invites you to find clarity and light within the noise.
It’s less about saving the world; more about finding meaning within its remains.
Key features
- Strategic turn-based combat >> Control the flow of battle through VP/AP management instead of pure damage output.
- Symbiotic duo system >> Kiza and his Korumon act as one, linked by shared vitality and emotion.
- Surface and depth exploration >> Third-person traversal as well as immersive first-person dives beneath the surface.
- Jump-based traversal >> Light platforming and vertical puzzles add motion to exploration.
- Flexible progression >> Earn classic EXP through combat or grow via collected KoruGems and exploration without grinding.
- KoruDex >> An illustrated bestiary revealing each creature’s origin, with a distinctive monochrome ‘cloud of pixel’ art style.
- Layered pixel-painted visuals >> Modern 2.5D art combining pixel detail with dynamic lighting and other modern effects.
- Atmospheric soundtrack >> A mix of serenity and tension reflecting the dual nature of Koruldia.
Content guidance
Calm intensity, mild claustrophobic vibes during underwater or abyss segments; non-graphic combat outcomes; optional “mercy” paths for specific foes.
Tags
JRPG · Turn-Based · Story-Rich · Exploration · Atmospheric · Sci-Fi · Psychological · Pixel Art · Single-Player
Wishlist CTA
Add Korulimbo to your wishlist to stay updated on upcoming trailers and the final release.
If you enjoy JRPGs that balance strategy with introspection and let you uncover hope within ruin, this journey is yours to take.
