Quick Facts
Format PlayedFirst StreamReview Score
PlayStation 4April 17th, 2019N/A

Streams

DeveloperPublisherRelease Date
Square EnixSquare EnixJanuary 28th, 2016

Dragon Quest Builders is a 2016 sandbox action-RPG game developed by Square Enix, which I am playing on the PlayStation 4. The game is a spinoff of the Dragon Quest series, and acts as a ‘What If?’ sequel set in the world of Alefgard, the world of the very first game. Heavily inspired by Minecraft, the game consists of a four-chapter story in which the player can restore light to different parts of the world, and a sandbox mode allowing full creative allowance.

The story takes place countless years after an alternate ending in which the hero of Dragon Quest accepted the evil Dragonlord’s proposal to each rule half of the world; this led to the Dragonlord tricking the hero, and claiming the world for himself and his monsters. Generations later, a mystical ‘Builder’ awakens in a chamber and is tasked with bringing light back to the world of Alefgard by the goddess Rubiss. And thus begins our adventure!