Seoul-based YoshiYoshi Studio have announced a new JRPG titled KAELIS: Seraph Protocol, which will release for PC via Steam. A Kickstarter campaign for the game that asks for $27,000 is now live.
The Steam page outlines the game as a “an academy sci-fantasy JRPG.” It is currently states that the game will release in 2028. Check out the gameplay trailer for KAELIS: Seraph Protocol, via Gematsu, below:
The store page provides a deeper overview of the release:
What is KAELIS?
KAELIS is an academy sci-fantasy JRPG that combines the character attachment and relationship-driven appeal of subculture games with the deep narrative immersion of a single-player JRPG.
The name Kaelis is inspired by the Latin caelum — “sky” or “heaven” — and caelis, evoking the celestial realm.
Players take on the role of Kaito, a citizen of Kaelis who becomes an Executor of Serenos Academy.
With his academy companions, he investigates Noise incidents, and his choices, field decisions, and enforcement actions shape his relationships and the flow of each case.
Story
Two hundred years ago, the world was swallowed by the flames of war, and everything turned to ash.
There, beneath the ashes, humanity found a small and faint glow—a light they named “Lumina.”
Drawing close to that light, they built their last city: Kaelis. A city filled with Lumina, peaceful and beautiful even now.
And yet, behind all that order, the light would sometimes waver, ever so faintly— a distortion no one could explain, the thing people came to call “Noise.”
Shirakawa Kaito was an utterly ordinary boy, one who had always kept the necklace his father left him close to his heart—until, from one day on, the city itself stopped recognizing him as an “ordinary citizen.”
Caught up in that strange change, Kaito finds himself stepping onto the field as an 〈Executor〉 of Serenos Academy, the body that handles the city’s Noise.
Together with the Academy’s own Guardians, he sets out toward a truth about this city that no one yet knows—and now, the story begins to move.
