Sorry for the rough screenshots, my PlayStation app is acting up.

For background, One Way Heroics is a Mystery Dungeon-like by indie dev SmokingWOLF. It has the unique mechanic that a malevolent force is constantly sweeping the world and forcing you to move east, so the gameplay takes place mainly outside while this is happening. Otherwise, it mostly plays like Mystery Dungeon and traditional roguelikes.

Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics is what you could consider a spin-off of the Mystery Dungeon series, but heavily based on One Way Heroics. Originally, Spike Chunsoft was going to port the original game to consoles, but decided to remake it instead with approval from the original dev.

Most reviews I've read have said that Mystery Chronicle is mostly inferior to One Way Heroics, and eventually the original game was released on Switch. However, I enjoy Mystery Chronicle just fine. You can look up the differences between them yourself if you'd like, because there's quite a few.

The reason I'm posting about it is because I'm just having a great time with it, and I've finally unlocked the Wanderer class. As you can see, these are more or less playable characters from Shiren 5 specifically (the Wanderer class characters depicted have default names of Shiren, Tao, and another I haven't unlocked yet respectively). This was one of the reasons I finally pulled the trigger and bought a copy of the PS4 version, but I can confirm the PS Vita version plays fine and still supports cross-save between them.

Now, for whether or not I recommend trying this. You'd probably want to play the original One Way Heroics first. Both of them are on sale on Steam right now, but most feel that the Mystery Chronicle port is bad and poorly optimized. It's mainly why I wanted it on console, aside from having Shiren in it lol. If you've read this far, look into these games and the weird, wild history of Mystery Dungeon if you haven't. It's a massive series full of its own sub-series' and this spin-off.


Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics (possible spoilers ahead)