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As Xi, explore a hand-drawn world across a five-day loop, combining movement powers and route planning to recover lost memories.
Released 17 Jun 2025
Plan Five-Day Routes
Combine Movement Powers
Break the Intended Order
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Developed by 沙因, 小阮 · Published by 沙因, 小阮
Play as Xi, accompanied by Ouro, as she explores a changing world and tries to recover her memories. The journey unfolds over five days, with discoveries and encounters tied to where and when she travels.
Passages between regions advance the day, so planning a route determines which places and events Xi can reach before the loop resets. New routes and abilities carry progress into later loops, letting her reach areas sooner or approach them in a different order.
Explore interconnected areas, find Pearls that grant tools for traversal and combat, and combine Xi’s movement abilities to overcome obstacles. Battle enemies and bosses, then summon defeated bosses as spirits; upgrades and equipment let you shape her combat approach.
Players who enjoyed DragonLoop most often highlight how its five-day loop turns exploration into route planning across a connected map. Many also praise the movement abilities and the freedom to combine them to reach areas early or discover shortcuts. Combat, story, and presentation receive more mixed reactions: some players enjoy the fast fights and hand-drawn style, while others find bosses frustrating or the audio and storytelling underdeveloped.
Play as Xi as she tries to navigate a five-day time loop and figure out what happened to her memories.
Together with her companion, Ouro, travel through a true metroidvania world where time changes the terrain in subtle ways. Escape the loop through exploration and battle. Change Xi’s fate and learn the truth of the Dragon Loop!
Defeat a wide range of interesting bosses to get exclusive summonable spirits. Destroy your foes with powerful Explosive Spirits, or summon Persistent Spirit companions to follow you around. Upgrade and evolve both types to enhance their combat power!
Find rare Pearls to summon powerful tools that help you traverse the world. Spiky pufferfish, magnetic boxes, a vacuuming whale spirit… and more. Each has multiple uses in both combat and traversing the world, unlocking many ways to play!
Combine Xi’s strength with Ouro’s agility in fast-paced combat. Play well, manage your X-Rating, and boost your speed and combat power even further in this fast-paced combat system with no contact damage.
In Dragon Loop, time is a limited resource. Use your five days wisely and plan your routes through an easily-navigable Time Map. Explore and open up new worldlines to see how things play out differently.But don’t worry: this isn’t a roguelike; you never start from scratch.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 41 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
