Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
"Atelier Yumia" is a story about “memory”. Explore the field to gather materials and synthesis items. The items you create can be key to advancing the story and can also be used in battles and exploration. Additionally, you can create your own base with “Building" in the field.
Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land is a exploration, collectathon and female protagonist game
developed and published by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD..
Released on March 20th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
It has received 1,591 reviews of which 1,052 were positive and 539 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.4 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 69.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10, Windows® 11 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3 8100 以上, AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 以上
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 以上, AMD Radeon RX 570 以上, VRAM 4GB 以上
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 40 GB available space
- Sound Card: 48000Hz、16bit、ステレオ
- Additional Notes: ウィンドウサイズ 1280×720 30FPS グラフィック設定「LOW」 ※Windows® 11をご使用の場合、Windows® 11のシステム要件に準じます。
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Tl;Dr - The game is fun, but absolutely not an atelier game, and definitely not worth the aaa pricetag, grab it when it goes on a 25%+ sale There's not much I can add to what others have said, though I'll list a few key points, both good and bad In general, the game looks pretty from afar, but up close, textures leave a lot to be desired, both for terrain or the characters Yumias outfit looks slightly off due to censorship, but they left in a character designed to BE fanservice, which makes no sense imo The crafting is... Not good, though the changes do make it a little easier to get an ideal piece of equipment Tools being required for gathering has been scrapped, personally I like this change, though for longer fans of the series it feels like a kick in the teeth, understandably The energy system is implemented incredibly poorly, with practically everything done while exploring requiring some, but only having recharges at bases (which most bases cant even place them) or at areas significant to the story On that, the exploration is the highlight of the game, with the world being very large, and item collection being streamlined, even the puzzles for the most part feel pretty good in the overworld, unfortunately, the combat absolutely doesnt live up to that. Combat has a few primary elements that should go hand in hand together, being items and skills, each with their own cooldowns (though ranged/melee seem to share a cd, but its never explained so I'm not completely sure) so you'd think "well, why not just alternate between them" which is the intended gameplay loop.. But when you try to swap between menus, the game says "oops, youre using a skill, we can't let you look at the other menu" which just leads to the already boring combat feeling even more tedious (also I managed to hit a bug which led to Yumia being locked in place in combat, which was also running in slow mo, I unfortunately don't know how to replicate it so can't send a bug report) Even after all these complaints though, I'm pushing through it and having a blast, with the characters being likeable, and the story, as simple as it may be, being pure wholesome atelier, and who's to say, the game's only just come out, there's still a good chance a lot of these issues will be fixed soon.
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After reading some of the negative reviews and seeing the game at 'mixed' have to write a review myself. Don't want the game to end up as underrated. I do understand those people that are not being able to play the game for performance reasons. Hopefully they get the game working. Gonna give some various tips if your'e a new player here as well. Performance. I did disable bloom, light shafts and motion blur. Also playing on 60fps. My pc is powerful enough to handle everything on highest but my eyes are not. Did read people being able to run the game on mediocre laptops but also read people not getting the performance they want on their top tier pcs. I congratulate the latter ones on having strong eyes.. being able to handle 120fps+ but still complaining about wanting more. Characters and story. When I first found out about the game and Yumia character design was quite dissapointed. She looked a little too 'mature' compared to a sweet Sophie or most other previous protagonists. I play atelier games to cleanse my soul not to corrupt it lol and I blame the simping for Ryzas thighs for what happened here. Anyway I play very very slow and 14hrs in am still in the part of the story where I want Yumia to kick Victor in the ****. Thankfully Yumia is not just a punching bag wanting to be accepted and i see hints of her having her own reasons for enduring the 'mistreatment'. Love her voice acting and the character has a certain wit about her that makes me smile. I think she's great.. Still **** you Ryzas simps. Apparently if you focus on the story you can get the game done in 20hrs.. The slow way i play this.. I'm currently 14hrs in, so should take me about 250hrs or so lol. Game difficulty, leveling and combat. In short don't touch anything below hard. In most games normal is for your casual audience and very hard for your hardcore players. So if your'e hesitant shoot for the middle, go for hard. Alchemy will have more meaning that way. You'll level very fast, might be getting levels after every fight and that's normal. For a while the mobs will level with you till you catch up and overtake them. Don't misunderstand please, while I dont fully understand how this catch up game all works there is a sense of progression and if you grind levels enough even with no alchemy you'll be beating early game stuff easy. When the catch up ends, for that extra oomph you might want the stats the alchemy can provide. As for combat and exploration I like how easy it was to get into thanks to that early tutorial. I understand that many are divided between real time here and turn based combat in most previous titles. Personally I like both. I understand what the devs were trying to do with combat here and think there's enough depth and fluidity to it. Just unlocked friendship actions from skill tree and am sure there's more to try out. Alchemy. People saying the synthesis is not deep enough, didn't just spend 1 hour of crafting an early game armor piece with 45def 25spd 10atk. Short and very simplified explanation of alchemy incoming. Items have cores and 'planets' circling around those cores, there's some floating stars (mana) in there as well. You put 'high enough resonance items' on your planets to catch as many planets and stars as you need. My major early game tip is to make lots of synthesizers and upgrade the recipes for them to rank4 as soon as you can.. You'll be getting 5 good resonance synthesizers per craft. For those people that already touched the game, In my example the item I made had 4 cores. you unlock more cores by advancing early game story, upgrading the recipe your'e making, and in the skill tree by unlocking the quality core. Quality is important, the item I made had 100 quality, (the max is 999 if your'e curious, but you need to get a skill for that). And I'm barely scratching the surface of alchemy.. The resonances I'm getting on my cores are about 10 and mana 5 but in previews it shows it's gonna be possible to get resonances to a 100 which doesn't stack with other cores and mana to a 200 which does stack with other cores. Do not get discouraged either the alchemy is easy to get into but deep enough to waste your time if your'e into making the best items your'e able to. Now go find someone who said the synthesis is not deep enough and smack em for my sake for forcing me to write all this.
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Fun gameplay loop but there are several flaws that may hinder your enjoyment depending on what you are looking for in a game. Graphics: As a preface, I'm not saying the game should have AAA graphics but rather the graphics quality should reflect in the price. Realistically a smaller studio from a niche franchise won't feasibly create a graphical marvel, but they are asking the same price (way more if you consider DLC) as several other AAA games and that is not justifiable. Objectively bad blocky textures all over the place and extremely poor lighting implementation to the point where it looks better when you turn bloom off. If bloom is on and morning/evening lighting change occurs Yumia will look like she's radioactive. Night time and fog look decent but any bright lighting fully overwhelms your screen with yellow, washing out literally all color in your FOV and making all textures appear blacked out as if a massive shadow is cast over them. Anyone who tells you the graphics are good is stuck in the 3ds era of niche JRPGs. Not trying to be condescending but those games cost $40 at the time for a reason. Take a nature walk in the open world and you're met with jank foliage and rocks everywhere. Look closely and they are jagged, blurry, clip other objects, etc. Long distance views are alright but anything in your immediate vicinity cheapens the environment. Character models are low polygon count. This example may be a bit craven but Yumia's butt in the beach skin looks like two conjoined shapes that weren't smoothed out properly. Several jrpgs released prior to 2020, maybe even 2016 look much better. Whether or not you can still enjoy the game is solely up to you, but as someone who likes to tweak game engines and search for mods to improve quality and performance the game's graphics were the most detrimental aspect to my enjoyment of the game. Controller controls: many people will swap B (crouch) and Y (interact) on third party controllers to make the pick up button closer to the right joystick since crouch isn't used often, and pretty much every other open world game in existence has interact on A/B depending on button orientation. This however leads to several issues because you cannot separate field, combat, and menu controls. If you remap one button via in-game settings it will swap ALL the relevant controls. This means that B to exit the map will also be B for fast travel (originally Y). There is a workaround since you can press X to open filters, then press and hold B to close it and initiate fast travel, but it's a serious oversight. Aim mode also has a strangely large deadzone, so it's hard to aim with precision. Movement has a significantly smaller deadzone so you can still ever so slightly tilt the stick to walk. In comparison, aiming requires you to go over half of the joystick's radius to move the reticle. Base design: Feels very restricted. There isn't really one big massive base anywhere, you're given multiple relatively small scale ones that are limited to 1 major structure (greenhouse, storehouse) and several campsites which are completely pointless when you can just fast travel to and from bases and campsites. Was hoping this aspect of the game would be more enjoyable but it's fairly limiting in scope. Gameplay: Regular mobs typically come in packs of 3 where you and each of your other 2 active party members will 1v1 the mobs. I don't think you can switch targets to gang up on other mobs until they die and camera is wonky. Feels very fluid in terms of cancelling skills with guard/evasion but unfortunately skills seem to be very limited compared to other rpgs in the genre. You learn up to 4 close range and 4 far range skills with no customization. You can equip up to 4 combat items and 4 support items (start with less but unlock via skill tree) but they all serve similar functions such as doing damage or enhancing your character respectively. Things like camping/cooking are useless at worst and relatively unnecessary at best. Also, I'm not a fan of friend skill and precision counter having cutscenes. They're not really cool or anything and you see them constantly if you choose to use them proactively. They interrupt the gameplay flow repeatedly and they don't feel good to use for that reason, but they are strong abilities for dealing elemental damage and stun damage. I have to say I enjoyed Atelier Sophie 2 much more, the difficulty balancing is much better in turn based gameplay where received damage is unavoidable. In Atelier Yumia you can pretty much kill anything with the weakest gear in the game if you're patient because it's really easy to just spam dodge whenever you hear the sound cue for an enemy attack. Western-adapting Japanese games such as Yumia or FFXVI that try to mix traditional JRPG elements (skill/gear progression, party members, etc.) and action games tend to fall short in implementation. Yumia's isn't nearly as embarrassing as XVI's but things like lack of skill customization and poorly thought out chest rewards are present in both games. Atelier Yumia also does not have the party members roam the field with you as they would in other non-turn based JRPGs such as Xenoblade, Nier, FF7R, etc. which causes the game to feel less lively. Difficulty: I'm on very hard (the maximum vanilla difficulty) and it's a cakewalk. In the skill tree I prioritized particles --> gathering/shooting item quality -> synthesis skills -> synthesis max quality. Game constantly throws particles at you and it's very quick to max out recipes to obtain extremely overpowered gear and items via alchemy. I was hitting the quality cap of 999 and one-shotting everything before advancing the story to the second region of the game, of which there are four. Greenhouse trivializes the material collection because it infinitely duplicates materials and requires almost no time at all to give you stacks of hundreds of any material you come across. Final verdict: In my honest opinion I think Atelier WAY overcharges for their games. $40 would be reasonable for this but in no way do I think this should ever be close to $70 given its low graphical fidelity, let alone $120 for the ultimate edition DLC pass. Despite this I do think the game is fun, story is alright (so far), character designs are great, and exploration/combat/alchemy aren't as monotonous as some other open world games. I would only recommend getting this on sale, or if you are a big fan of the Atelier series and want to support its continued development. Atelier could have the potential to be one of the greatest franchises but it feels more like the developers focus on pumping out or re-releasing several games in short intervals instead of focusing resources into developing one solid game. The issue with creating open world games with a smaller team is that the expectation of the player is for it to look beautiful. The precedent was set with BOTW, then in later years we had games like Elden Ring, Ghost of Tsushima, and even gacha games like Wuthering Waves that blow you away with the visuals. Releasing a title in this genre with subpar visuals is an immediate turn off for most people and does not stimulate growth outside of the immediate fanbase.
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Quick first impressions review after three hours: Is it an Atelier game? Not really. The whole vibe is different. The atmosphere is not as chill, a lot of things seem to have been moved from cozy to cool. The girls are older and seem to already have found their calling rather than little dorks growing up with the player. Even the intro is completely different, where all the Atelier games used to have nice anime scenes specifically drawn just for the intro song, Yumia only has an in engine pre-rendered movie and sadly at a low resolution (looks like 1080p to me). I think it would have been fairer to market this as a completely new franchise, but I understand it is harder to create interest for that. Is it a good game? Oh yes absolutely. It shines in many areas and even though it's not the Atelier I'm being used to, I think Yumia will be a good fit for a lot of people: 1. Graphics. Despite the AAA pricetag, studio Gust is still very far away from having AAA graphics. That being said they are a huge upgrade from older Atelier titles. The environment is not that good tbf, but the characters are done very nicely. Lots of facial expressions, hair and clothing flow naturally during movements, there are many small details on the anime style such as blushes, light falling on hair, shiny skin spots on shoulders and knees. Movements and combat are very sleek. It's an overall good presentation. 2. Technicals. It runs like butter, I only use 50% card capacity in 4k and that's rendered natively. There are all the option settings I wanted except maybe color saturation, I would have prefered more of that. The menu structure and game interface are modern and good to use. Settings and interface used to be sort of an achillies heel of this franchise and I'm glad it's done properly for once. 3. Gameplay. Like I said it's not really an Atelier game, it falls more in line with what you expect of an open world RPG these days. There is more freedom, more space, more to see. Quite frankly, if someone showed me just the footage of the world with no background transmitted it could be a Palworld or Genshin clone - definitely something people will like. As far as the action combat goes it's just okay. Because you're not really fighting freely, you hit the mob and get into a seperate arena fight where you then button smash away and evade attacks. I don't know why they did it this way, but there was a Neptunia game a while ago that did the same and it wasn't a great feel there either. I think going the middleground between round based and open world combat is not the way to go. What's nice is how much more freedom to explore you have. And there are some entertaining side activities such as photo mode and base building. I also liked that the world has verticality to it. Mountains to climb, ruins and caves to descend into. Sadly you can't swim and not go further into the water than having your feet wet. Item synthesis is easier to understand this game and I like it. In addition to that, calm cauldron steering has been replaced by doing a magical dance to fall in line with the new pace of the game. And you can make basic items everywhere while not at home. Worth? Entry price of 70€ is pretty steep. I don't feel the game should cost this much, but that has been Koei's strategy for decades now: AA game at AAA pricetag. The stuff you get for paying for the 120€ best edition gives very little extra for now. Just a few costumes and customization fluff. Would have to wait until autumn to see how much content there is in the expansions to recommend buying the whole package. I think if you can wait, it would be better to pick up just the base edition at a discount of like 30%, then you'll get your money's worth.
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Played 10 hours from the demo before the game released, and it's everything I had hoped for from the promotional material. Alchemy system from the Atelier series with open world exploration taken from Breath of the Wilds , combat reminiscent of Final Fantasy 15, along with a more mature direction with the narrative. So far have been enjoying myself, and looking forward to the rest of the game now that the main game is up.
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Online players
1,018
Developer
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Publisher
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Release
20 Mar 2025
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