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Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland~

KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · 2019-05-20

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RPG

Franchise: Atelier · Modes: Single player

Releases: May 24, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), May 24, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 20, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

The long awaited 4th installment of the popular "Arland" series that had begun with the "Atelier Rorona"! In this new story, players will revisit the nostalgic world of Arland and embark on exciting journey of alchemy together with Rorona's daughter, Lulua.

89%
positive of 619 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
79/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$59.99
steam price (US)
Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland is a 2019 role-playing video game developed by Gust and published by Koei Tecmo for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Windows. It is part of the Atelier series, and the fourth entry in the Arland subseries. Following trainee alchemist Lulua Frixell as she goes on a journey following the discovery of a magical book called the Alchemyriddle, gameplay features exploration and battles using turn-based combat, and alchemic synthesising for items and quest objectives.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 33 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (110 reviews).
  • · Top 40% of 6,558 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–37k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 619 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
80.4%
earned "First Synthesis"
29.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsGamepad RecommendedPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing29 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,39044%50
PS4 (PlayStation)85556%50
Steam (Steam)52121%50
Switch (Nintendo)370%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGCuteJRPGAnimeCasualFantasyCraftingAdventureTurn-BasedExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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