Dragon Quest mobile RPG leads wave of Japanese game announcements

A free-to-play Dragon Quest role-playing game for smartphones was officially announced, alongside a Medabots collection for Steam and a new third-person shooter titled NIGHTMARE OPERATOR, according to Automaton.

The Dragon Quest title lets players freely explore maps and fight monsters in command battles. General director Yuji Horii said the game deliberately includes "RPG" in its title and focuses on delivering a Dragon Quest-style adventure on smartphones.

The Medabots collection, Medabots Classics Plus, gathers the first eight games in the series, released between 1997 and 2003. It supports online battles and trades and adds save/load anywhere, double-speed and rapid-button features. It marks the series' first release on Steam.

NIGHTMARE OPERATOR is set in a ruined near-future Tokyo, where players hunt yokai as public security operator Misha, voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro.

Also announced were Wolfenstein 3, a new numbered entry in the first-person shooter series arriving about nine years after the previous one and seemingly continuing from 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order, and Obey Me! Sinner's Choice: Lucifer, a dark romance visual novel about interrogating seven demon brothers, set to launch on November 16.