Vigil RPG 5th Anniversary Edition Now Available!

Now available on the App Store for iOS devices: Vigil RPG, Special 5th Anniversary Edition!

Vigil RPG is a game that I solo-developed and released for iPhone back at the end of 2014.  Vigil RPG is the kind of designed-for-mobile RPG that I couldn't find on the App Store, so I wrote it myself! It features interesting combats (even in non-boss battles), while also allowing you to play each combat round in a single tap.

I'm happy to announce that Vigil RPG, Special 5th Anniversary Edition, is now available! It's a free update to the original Vigil RPG app. It features:

Universal (iPad) support

Vigil RPG had always been playable on iPad, but only as an automatically-scaled-up version of the original iPhone 4. Now, Vigil RPG is a full Universal iOS app, with every screen in the game having been updated to take advantage of iPad portrait-mode screen resolutions.

iPhone X and iPhone 11 support

Vigil RPG now also takes advantage of the full resolution available on newer iPhones, all the way up to the iPhone 11 Pro Max. (Future large phone models will now be automatically supported as well.) Enjoy Vigil RPG's beautiful pixel graphics in glorious high resolution on your new device!

New and reworked enemies

A new, unique early-game boss enemy has been added. Players familiar with Vigil RPG will no longer find it quite so easy to retrieve a quest item from one of the local farms early on in the game!

A number of existing enemies in the game have been reworked to make them more interesting to fight. A few examples:

• The Tank Goblin, instead of just having thick armor, now has a defense that is really tough to crack.  Players familiar with how to beat King Hippo in Nintendo's Punch-Out! series, though, should have an advantage in figuring out how to hurt him effectively...
• The Skeleton Fire Mage now chants some strange words at the beginning of combat. Could those words be somehow related to the combat round numbers in which it casts its FIRE spells?
• The Fire Elemental now grows into a larger and larger flame as combat progresses! The ICE spell can help cut it back down to size, though!
• It's now extra effective to use the never-miss FIRE spell on flying enemies, such as the Giant Hornet that is encountered early in the game.

New Music

Delight your ears with new 8-bit-style music tracks for many of Vigil RPG's unique boss enemies!

As a bonus, here's my favorite, as a free download: The new Arcane Tower boss battle theme!  (Composer credit: nene at opengameart.org!)

• Listen:
• Download: Vigil RPG Arcane Tower Boss Battle.mp3.zip (4.8 MB)

New In-Game Commentary

Everyone's favorite root-beer-serving bartender, Bo, has lots and lots of new commentary, gameplay tips, and humor for you at the Tavern. You can also now just tap him to get more tips, instead of having to leave the tavern and come back again.

Local High Scores

Vigil RPG has always featured an "elapsed turns" system, which tracks how efficiently and effectively you've been proceeding through the game. Completing quests in fewer turns gets you better quest completion rewards.

Now, a local high scores table for each quest is available at the Tavern! When you complete a quest at the Tavern, your performance compared to other save files and prior playthroughs on your device is now displayed.

Many more enhancements!

To name just a few:

• Stats are now displayed at the end of combat for how well you did mitigating enemy special attacks (i.e. blocking them, or otherwise taking advantage of an enemy's weakness to stop them from being effective), and interrupting enemy spells.  These stats for the entirety of your playthrough are also now displayed on the Hero Status screen!
• The Shaman (a late-game NPC located in a remote section of the world map) now invites the hero to rest at his hut (to restore HP) after he is done assigning the hero a quest!
• The Town of Arboria now has a new and improved appearance!
• Some quest rewards, hero level-up bonuses, item prices, and monster stats have been tweaked to make Vigil RPG even more finely balanced!
• Picking up Fire Rubies in the Volcano now slightly restore the hero's HP!
• 400+ new git commits of new sound effects, UI improvements, and other goodness!

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To learn more about Vigil RPG, check out the Vigil RPG website.  Or help me buy my wife a delicious coffee by checking out the game that TouchArcade.com named one of the top 10 JRPG-style games available on iOS -- alongside such notable series as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Chrono Trigger! -- by buying your very own copy of Vigil RPG on the App Store!