Granser - Act 1

A story-driven RPG inspired by classic JRPGs, featuring a unique fast-paced turn-based combat system built around timing, combos, and survival without traditional healing.

Follow Saragat and his allies as they become entangled in a web of conspiracies surrounding The Core — a shadow organization manipulating world events from behind the scenes. As nations edge closer to war and powerful factions begin hunting Saragat, an even greater ancient threat stirs beneath the surface

Act 1 delivers a focused 10-hour narrative experience packed with strategic combat, genuine character interactions, and a world shaped by decades of lore.

• Fully Voiced Cast
  Experience the journey with a complete professional English voice cast.

• Fast-Paced Turn-Based Combat
  Master a unique battle system focused on combos, active timing mechanics, and exploiting enemy openings.

• No Traditional Healing
  The refined Focus System replaces standard healing mechanics, creating tense and strategic encounters where momentum and defense matter.

• Active Timing Offense & Defense
  Increase damage with well-timed attacks, block incoming strikes, or perfectly parry enemy assaults. Prefer a more traditional RPG feel? Let the dice handle timing outcomes automatically.

• Burst Combo System
  Build combo chains with your party to increase overall damage and unleash devastating directional Burst finishers.

• Real-Time Duels & Training
  Grow stronger through 1v1 duels and training encounters rather than repetitive grinding.

• Crest Customization System
  Replace traditional equipment with spiritual Crests that define each character’s combat role, strengths, and weaknesses.

• Real-Time Airship Battles
  Take control during aerial combat sequences that punctuate key moments in the story.

• Classic Overworld Exploration
  Travel across a traditional JRPG-inspired overworld filled with secrets, encounters, and story events.

• Post-Game Challenge Dungeon
  Face difficult endgame content that will continue expanding post-launch ahead of Act 2.

  
Saragat’s life is thrown into chaos when he becomes a target of The Core, a hidden organization operating behind governments, militaries, and global conflicts. Pursued by multiple factions and caught between rising superpowers, he and his allies uncover secrets tied to an approaching catastrophe that threatens the entire world.

   
Combat in Granser revolves around managing Focus, exploiting enemy weaknesses, and maintaining offensive pressure rather than relying on traditional healing loops.

Use active timing mechanics to strengthen attacks, defend against incoming blows, and perfectly parry enemies to create openings. Build party-wide combo chains to maximize damage output and gather Burst energy for devastating finisher attacks.

Character progression avoids traditional grinding. Permanent stat increases, abilities, and growth come from duels, training, and world interactions.

The Crest System allows deep customization without conventional gear systems, enabling players to shape party members into specialized combat role

   
Granser is the culmination of over two decades of worldbuilding and development by solo developer Steve Gal, creator of the Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity series.

Originally conceived as a comic project before evolving into games, Granser continues the wider universe established through the five-game Skautfold saga:

• Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity

• Skautfold: Usurper

• Skautfold: Into the Fray

• Skautfold: Moonless Knight

• Skautfold: Knight's End

Developed solo without crowdfunding, Granser: Act 1 marks the beginning of a larger ongoing story.