Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana cover

Ys Series

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Role-playing (RPG) Adventure Action Fantasy
89
User Score
70 ratings
85
Critic Score
15 reviews
Very Positive
5,993 reviews
July 21, 2016
Released 3569 days ago
Google Stadia PlayStation 4 PC (Microsoft Windows) PlayStation 5 PlayStation Vita Nintendo Switch

About

Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island.

Storyline

Adol Christin is on a passenger liner called the Lombardia that is sailing from Xandria to the continent of Eresia. He and Dogi were recruited as a crew for the ship in exchange for their boarding. The ship's captain, Captain Barbaros, tells Adol the story of the cursed Isle of Seiren, where ships have vanished while passing by its perimeters. However, Adol's voyage was interrupted by an enormous sea monster attacking the ship. He and the other passengers were flung overboard as it dragged the ship to the bottom of the sea.

Adol later awoke on the coast of the Isle of Seiren's beach. An island with ancient, untamed wilderness, populated by creatures seen nowhere else in the world. He later discovers other people who also washed ashore the island, so to aid their search for other survivors, and to better defend themselves from the primordial beasts that roam the island, Adol and his fellow castaways establish a settlement for themselves called Castaway Village.

It was not long before Adol found himself experiencing cryptic dreams about a mysterious young woman with flowing blue hair, whose world Adol had never encountered before.

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Artwork

Videos

Trailer

Trailer

English trailer

Release Dates by Platform

PlayStation Vita Worldwide
Jul 21, 2016
PlayStation 4 Worldwide
May 25, 2017
PlayStation 4 Worldwide
Sep 12, 2017
PlayStation Vita Worldwide
Sep 12, 2017
PlayStation 4 Worldwide
Sep 15, 2017
PlayStation Vita Worldwide
Sep 15, 2017
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Apr 16, 2018
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Apr 16, 2018
Nintendo Switch Worldwide
Jun 26, 2018
Nintendo Switch Worldwide
Jun 28, 2018
Nintendo Switch Worldwide
Jun 29, 2018
Google Stadia Worldwide
Apr 1, 2021
PlayStation 5 Worldwide
Nov 15, 2022
PlayStation 5 Worldwide
Nov 15, 2022
PlayStation 5 Worldwide
Jul 31, 2025

Game Info

Developer
Nihon Falcom
Publisher
Nihon Falcom, NIS America
Game Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective
Third person
Genres
Role-playing (RPG) Adventure
Themes
Action Fantasy

Multiplayer

Offline Co-op Up to 2 players

Languages

Audio / Voice
English, Japanese
Text / Subtitles
English, English, French, French, Japanese, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)

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