Apr 302025
Last week, publisher FuRyu announced an upcoming new school life RPG called Varlet.
It’s being developed by Aquria and Team Noir, and it’s due out on August 28 worldwide for Switch, PS5, and PC.
The story follows a new student at Kousei Academy, who learns that the school overlaps with another world and some students have been replaced by monsters. It features both school life systems where you’ll take on requests and spend time with friends, and a combat system where you can use either “leader” style to grant buffs to allies or “ruler” style to crush enemies.
According to the website, there are also six social stats that change based on your choices and open up different options to you.
They recently shared the opening movie, as well.
Varlet sounds pretty interesting and looks like the sort of RPG I’ll want to keep my eye on. I’ve heard mixed things about Team Noir’s previous RPG, Monark, however, so I’ll probably wait to see what Varlet’s reception is like first.
(It’s not as if I’m lacking games in my backlog, after all.)
What do you think of Varlet?