- 64/100
- Metacritic9 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 85/100
- Player reviews
- 47% positive122 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$23.99
Where to get it
2025 · FuRyu · Role-playing · Simulation
VARLET
To be a "leader" that guides others forward, or to be an uncompromising "ruler"...VARLET is a school life RPG where, through encounters with troubled boys and girls who are also searching for themselves, you begin to uncover a version of yourself you never knew existed.
- Released
- 27 August 2025
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 5Windows
- Genres
- Role-playingSimulationAdventure
- Developers
- FuRyuAquria
- Publishers
- FuRyu
- Modes
- Single-player
- Themes
- ActionScience fictionDrama
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Age ratings
- ESRB TPEGI 12
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Japanese, Korean
- Features
- Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam achievements
- Time to beat
- 31hmain story39hcompletionist
›Story
Kousei Academy: where the protagonist has recently transferred. Whispered rumors surround this place.
“Another world” where strange creatures dwell appears within the school… and once you’ve wandered in, there’s no way back out.
After seeing this other world—“a Glitch”—with his own eyes, the protagonist realizes several people have been replaced with monsters.
You must fight alongside your friends to save the academy from imminent destruction.
As a “Leader” that guides others forward, or as a “Ruler” who believes might makes right
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