In Demonschool, students are invited to a colorful island and its "prestigious" university, where exciting sports clubs, a world-class education, and the impending doom of a demonic apocalypse await! The school-life tactics RPG is reminiscent of Persona and Shin Megami Tensei.

For freshman Faye, the last living heir to a long-forgotten family of demon hunters, school is nothing like it looks on the brochures. While her peers get to flirt through Freud and dabble in Dante, Faye and her new band of misfit friends get shunted toward supernatural investigations. A woman who lost her face? A summoning ritual in the cemetery? Mailer Daemons!? The underworld inches ever closer to the world of humanity ... college is hell!

Demonschool is a streamlined tactics game where movement equals action, decisions can be rewound, and speedy mechanics remove the genre's traditional cruft. Plan each student's moves at your leisure, then hit the action button and watch it all play out in devastating, character-based combos. Destin, a hot-blooded fighter, can knock foes forward into Namako's debuffing dash, and damage dealers like Faye benefit from shrine keeper Knute's helpful wards. Adjust strategies for monolithic bosses and unusual battlefields, bucking genre conventions. Unleash tide-turning special moves to keep the demons at bay — if they reach the back line, the human world is lost.

Each surreal encounter brings Faye and friends closer to a dark conspiracy beyond their imagining, but thankfully, student life isn't all bloodstained butterflies and dolls from hell. Live out an entire school semester, choosing what to study, who to befriend, and how much trust to share. Plan your team's class schedule to develop their skills and acquire over a dozen new allies through myriad side quests in a vibrant world of giallo colors and lighting. Foster friendships or fiery romances between them all, strengthening combo attacks and elemental affinities and uncovering new endings. Explore extracurriculars in and around town with a darkly comedic cast of eccentrics.

Originally planned for launch in 2023, Demonschool is now scheduled for Q2 2024.

Developer Necrosoft Games and publisher Ysbryd Games hint at what’s to come in a new combat explainer.

Units interact contextually with their environment. Enemies will be struck, objects moved, or characters healed/buffed. Plan movements at your leisure during the planning phase, then execute them all at once. Buffing friendlies and debuffing enemies compounds damage output. Combos do big damage and produce unique elemental attacks, which you can use to exploit enemy weaknesses.

Fight creepy demons, gargantuan bosses, and other monstrosities on a chess-like board where movement equals action and time can be rewound.

Strategize the squad’s moves in the Planning phase, utilizing the skills of each character to create optimal arrangements and combo strikes.

Place party members in the proper positions, then enter the Action phase and watch each punch, heal, and impressive combo play out simultaneously.

Reveal hundreds of cooperative attack combinations between 15 possible teammates and stylishly send demons back to hell!

Demonschool worships at the ritual altar of classic Italian horror films of the '60s and '70s, drenched in strange visuals and hellish grotesquery driven by a funky bassline that renders even the most horrific scenario irreverent. Its tactical battles evoke genre giants like Into the Breach, but fluid mechanics with fewer clicks and a generous planning phase make starting this class a cakewalk.

Key Features:

• Tactics: Rewind any action during the planning phase and create combos to dispatch your foes.
• Story: A light horror narrative told through huge avatars with side quests aplenty.
• Schedule: Plan your school schedule to level your characters and build their skills.
• Friendship: 15 characters with whom to build relationships.

Demonschool is coming to the Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, PC (Steam Deck), Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S in Q2 2024.