Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout
Gather ingredients, synthesize equipment and revisit your creations as Ryza learns alchemy, with real-time battles built around shared Action Points and the choice to raise Tactics Level.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.3 / 10
About this game
Ryza's summer adventure connects exploration, gathering and alchemy. You collect ingredients, fit them into a recipe's layout and synthesize equipment and other useful items. Item Rebuild lets you return to something already made, improving its quality or adding traits instead of treating the first result as final. Gathering and synthesis form a recurring part of developing her craft. Battles run in real time and use Action Points shared by the party. Spending them activates skills, while filling the gauge opens the option to raise Tactics Level and strengthen combat capabilities. Alongside this adventure with Ryza's companions, the game offers adjustable difficulty and an option to enable autosave.
Collected in series
Atelier is an RPG series where gathering ingredients and making useful items are central to the adventure. A better recipe can prepare you for the next outing, while friendships and each alchemist’s goals give you reasons to return to the workshop.
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AI review
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A fit for players who enjoy improving crafted items and weighing immediate skills against battle development.
Recipe layouts and Item Rebuild could make alchemy satisfying for players who enjoy refining a result over several attempts. Shared AP introduces a different decision in combat: use resources for skills now or preserve the opportunity to raise Tactics Level.
Strengths
- Item Rebuild gives existing creations a further role in experimentation.
- Shared AP links immediate skill use to a broader battle-development choice.
Who it is for: Players drawn to ingredient gathering, iterative crafting and resource decisions during real-time battles.
Play notes: AP belongs to the whole party, so spending it on a skill affects the shared pool used to reach a full gauge.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension The recurring gathering-and-synthesis loop is likely to appeal most when improving the craft is itself part of the player's goal. | Reviewed | 7.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Rebuilding an item can make returning to synthesis feel purposeful for players who enjoy incremental refinement. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension A summer adventure with companions may give the alchemy-learning loop a personal coming-of-age context for story-minded players. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Changing difficulty without losing story progress and enabling autosave offer practical support for adjusting the adventure to changing needs. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Gust
- Publisher
- Koei Tecmo Games
- Release date
- 2019
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- FantasyCollection-richCommand-based CombatLevel Progression3D GraphicsThird PersonStory-drivenTurn-based CombatSolo-friendlyExplorationMain Story 20–50 HoursLong-term Progression
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2019
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Sources
- www.koeitecmoamerica.comSource revision: 1
- www.koeitecmoamerica.com