NU: carnival

NU: carnival (新世界狂歡) is a social simulation RPG mobile game developed by Infinity Alpha in collaboration with SGArts. The game is available on iOS and Android through the game's official website.

Plot
Many hundreds of years ago, the elemental spirits on the Klein Continent were causing total mayhem. In order to put a stop to this chaos, the Grand Sorcerer - a man known only as Huey - decided to seal away the imbalanced elements in gemstones placed at five altars across the land. Twenty years ago, the Sorcerer's sudden disappearance caused the altars to fall out of maintenance, causing chaos to begin spreading across the land once more.

The player takes control of Eiden, an man who comes into contact with a mysterious gemstone before suddenly being transported to the Klein Continent. Threatened by natural disasters and the rapidly expanding Dead Zone, Eiden is tasked with taking on Huey's duties, locating the five altars and releasing the seals on his clan members in hopes of restoring his own gemstone and finding a way back home.

Gameplay

 * NU: carnival features a turn-based battle system with a customizable five-member party. The player can utilize type matchups and unique special skills to defeat enemies, as well as powering up their allies by upgrading their levels, star ranking, and potential.


 * Players can create new items for use in battle or intimacy with the Workshop feature. They may also fulfill orders for certain items in exchange for coins.


 * Low-ranking allies can be used for Exploration, which involves sending off five allies to scavenge an area of your choice for items. Players may unlock allies' potential to teach them exploration skills, which take effect even when the ally is not in use.


 * The Intimacy feature allows players to give gifts obtained from missions to their allies to raise their intimacy meter. Once the meter is full, the player may unlock a gift from their ally and one of five story scenes. To unlock explicit scenes for SR and SSR allies, the player must use a key matching that character's elemental type.

Development
The game opened for preregistration on December 1, 2021. On February 23, 2022, the team announced that they could not publish the game on the iOS App Store due to its new policies and created a guide on installing it from their site instead. The game was officially released worldwide on February 24, 2022, localized simultaneously in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.