Update: Caravan Stories has a release date for Japan (thanks, Nintendo Everything), and we now also know that it will use the power of the cloud on Nintendo's console.
It launches on March 18th in Japan (that's this week, in case you were wondering), and, like Control and Hitman 3, won't actually be running directly on the Switch itself, but rather on remote servers.
We don't know if the game will make it outside of Japan, but Caravan Stories is available in the west on other platforms, so localisation shouldn't be an issue.
Original Story [Mon 30th Nov, 2020 09:30 GMT]: Developer Aiming has announced that its free-to-play MMO RPG Caravan Stories is coming to Nintendo Switch.
Originally released on iOS and Android smartphones back in 2017, the game is set in the sprawling fantasy world of Iyarr. Players select one of six races and can tame monsters and befriend NPCs as they work their way through the story – nearly 300 allies are available for recruitment, and both PvE and PvP combat is on offer.
The game was ported to PC in 2018, while an English-language PlayStation 4 release took place in 2019.
There's no word on when the Switch version will arrive, but does this look like something you're willing to take a punt on, or are you keeping your powder dry for Genshin Impact?
Comments 42
Well that is a nice surprise! Saw a trailer for the PS version and liked what I saw well enough, especially for a free to play. Didn't expect it to release on Switch.
Free 2 Play games are mostly = Loot boxes, In game purchase, Pay 2 Win.
Nah...!
@Anti-Matter thankfully, not ALL of them. But it's very hard to find that 0.01% of all free2play games that are actually good and worthy.
@Anti-Matter paradoxical as it sounds, pay-to-win games are only pay-to-win if you pay to win.
In reality, there's nothing to win with money in such games unless you have a condition related to self-esteem and online leaderboards. There's no "beating" a game with continuously expanded content, and most or all "premium" addendum coaxing the money out of you today will be discounts next month and "Holiday/Black Friday/Eleventy zillion players milestone" giveaway next year. All the F2Ps I've played have been time sinks rather than money ones, especially as the default non-donating strategy goes out of its way to motivate your attendance (daily login bonuses and missions, regular events etc) and, perchance, sponsor ad viewership with premium currency or other niceties on offer. There are few reasons to spend money in freemiums... except among the people who may just be too impatient for most freemiums' core gameplay (grind-heavy RPG) in the first place. Such people might as well pay extra to unlock Sephiroth's final boss fight in FFVII from the start.
I really hope this has a UK version. Wanted to play it on PS4 but it was US/ JP only. Looks like a decent FTP game.
@Anti-Matter Sorry, but that's just nonsense. Out of all the free-to-play games I have thus far played on Switch, this is just not true.
Off the top of my hat:
Fortnite is pay for skins
Spellbreak is pay for skins
Asphalt 9 is just getting better cars slightly quicker
Sure, Kirby is paying for better equipment quicker, but sheesh, there's no WINNING in that game anyways, it's super casual.
And you know what, I have spent money on Spellbreak, Kirby and Asphalt 9, because I enjoyed the games and therefore it felt appropriate to send a couple of Euros their way, as a thank you to the developers. The total amount of cash I spent on free to play games doesn't get me a regular game, it's that little.
It baffles me that people can still throw a fit when a game costs nothing except for when you want to buy some consumables, but at the same time happily fork over 60 bucks for a game like Luigi's Mansion, which you can literally finish in a couple of hours, should you be so inclined.
I have to say tho! It looks suprisingly good for a free to play game, better then most games that cost to much.
So yeah will download it.
@nhSnork Please don't compare "unlocking stuffs in freemiun games" to "unlock the final boss battle to skip the game".
With all respect, it's two different worlds. I love to play a game to slowly grind and win with skill my way to a final boss, but I had to stop playing many freemium games as what they lock behind their systems are characters, weapons, abilities and all kind of stuffs you usually unlock with effort, level up and story progression.
I guess I'm still 'impatience' cause I can't stand how long it takes to unlock characters and other things without paying, but when most freemium games requires from the player hours of gameplay time or a lot of money for a slim chance to maybe maybe get one thing (which usually doesn't happen)..it kinda kill the pace for me.
I definitely prefer a regular priced game where I can unlock everything with the right effort and progression pace instead than the freemium time, chance and money sink model, but maybe is just me.
Awful mobile quality game, downloaded on the ps4 and unintsalled a couple hours later
Man if Genshin does make it to the Switch, a lot of players who haven't tried it are in for a treat! I'm having a blast with it on my PS4. The developer, from China, did an amazing job putting it together. I really like the characters--they all have fleshed out back stories complete with missions. They spent 100 million creating it and it shows. Yes it's Free to Play, but there's a huge heart at the center of it.
That's great and all, but where's mah Genshin impact port? If the switch can run Warframe, then it can run impact as well!
Do all JRPG's now use an anime art style?
I'll stick with all the free to play RPGs in my backlog.
I wanted to play genshin impact on my switch so badly and now I kinda don't care about it but I still hope it comes to switch one of these days
@BakaKnight @Daniel36
The Switch escapes the worst of it, but spend time on mobile and I can assure you, pay-to-win absolutely exists.
If your purchases or loot drops give you anything more effective than cosmetics, it's pay to win. Powerful cards, weapons, upgrades, lives, etc - many unscrupulous games let you buy these and get an edge in multiplayer.
Personally, knowing that those horrorshows exist makes it easier for me to enjoy fairer FTP games such as Rocket League. Sure, they're constantly doing their best to tap into my sense of bling envy, but the game itself is 100% skill based, unlike some.
F2P, always online, live service. I played this a little on PS4. It's...an alright mobile game.
@Crono1973 You do realize the J stands for Japanese, right?
@EdwardElric Of course, does that mean it has to have an anime art style because I have to tell ya, it's getting old.
@Crono1973 I mean yeah it is old... Like since Dragon Quest 1, the first JRPG was anime style 34 years ago, followed by just about 95% of Japanese rpgs since. I mean anime is as much a part of the genre as stats and heroes.
Were you expecting a defining part of the genre to just go away after a few decades? Kind of an odd thing to think.
Wait what? Cloud version for a game with subpar graphics? What gives?
I mean, lookatit. Graphics is not at PS4 level at all. I can easily bet my arm that with even a LITTLE care it could run natively on Switch. Maybe even at 1080p docked.
I've wanted to play this for a while and I would very much hope this comes to the West. Doubtful but sometimes you get lucky.
I don't like when games go in the cloud, especially when there is really no need for that. Also, Genshin Impact is not that good, it just a well-marketed game.
Oh look, another freemium game with arbitrary problems (stamina) they are making you pay to fix.
Free 2 play and Streaming only = BLAH. 👎
It will be a regret after several years later when the server get closed.
Disappear forever.
Never heard of this title, after doing a quick youtube of game i'm less excited about this. If only Squareenix could port something to the switch like FFXI or FFXIV Cloud that would be amazing. The issue is I think we are going to see more mobile ports as MMO's are pretty much a dead genre these days.
@Jokomo3 just a well marketed game? You saying this? The person with Among us in their profile picture. Ok u got attention.
@JokerCK It's just a picture, who cares.
@Tim_Vreeland That would require time and effort. Sorry to say this, but the Switch has been getting a lot of low quality trash like this lately.
Why cant the switch run this without cloud it looks xenoblade ish in terms of graphics
Despite earlier curiosity, the cloud will make it that much less likely for me to go beyond the library addition itself... if not that much less likely for the game to come out here at all. PSO2 has yet to, after all. This is legit for Japanese internet, not so much westside (especially when games like Control take the wrong page out of Vita's RP and try to police the end user's signal strength, even in real time mid-session from what I hear). Oh well.
As long as the streamed game is free-to-play, I'm not complaining. Streamed games should only come in a streaming service or should be free.
Also, all this talk about Genshin Impact drives me crazy. When the heck are they going to release it on the Switch? It's able to run on phones already, for crying out loud.
Plz keep this in Japan. I don’t really want a cloud version of the game.
Also yeah, where is Genshin impact for switch? We got NO news about it at this point.
@anoyonmus I'm not a fan of cloud gaming, but in the case of online only gaming I actually think it makes a lot of sense. Typically when playing a a game like ff14 or WoW, your character is stored on the company servers and when logging in you have to go through DRM just to play. In cases like these cloud gaming is the perfect solution, in fact, why isn't ff14 on switch via cloud services? That would be far more interesting than this game.
@Chowdaire ig
@ModdedInkling yeah it should be on a streaming service and should be made f2p on it.
If there is gonna be more cloud versions of games, maybe Nintendo could have their own cloud service of 3rd party games with a price of whatever (5 or 10 dollars a month is fine) each month and all the games are made for free.
@Northwind my 10 star user score for ACNH before release was and still is right 👍
Well, when it's free to ENJOY, you lose nothing. When it's pay to play, the standard concept, you already lose before you even know what you'll get out of it.
I don't get the whole negativity around the concept of F2P. Sure, it's often obnoxious in how often it asks for your money, and grinding past a pay wall may not always be worth it. But you could argue a demo is free to play, and after a small portion of the game, there's a massive pay wall you can only get past by paying full price at once. Is that better? Worse? I don't know, it's case by case. There's good ones on both sides, there's bad ones on both sides.
And I was looking forward to replaying FF:CC, but not at full price and not without local co-op and not when it felt weird with the re-recorded songs (that I couldn't sing along with due to different pacing, despite knowing the originals by heart still) and voices. So I'll try this one. If it's a bad example of F2P, then that's that. If it's a good example, it's still free, so I won't be complaining either way.
@Jokomo3 To each their own, but Genshin Impact has impressive production value for a standard console game, let alone a mobile F2P title. Its word of mouth has been way stronger than any marketing campaign.
@sanderev ?
Going to keep the train rolling until we get an answer. WERE IS GENSHIN IMPACT FOR SWITCH.?????
@Northwind oh gave it 10 out of 10 use to most sites doing just 5 out of 5 fixed that comment lol
@anoyonmus
It's unfortunate that we're probably going to get full-priced "remasters" of games rather than something like that, outside of NSO.
Tap here to load 42 comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...