Actraiser Renaissance
Side-scrolling action and settlement building with real-time defense battles
Square Enix, Sonic Powered · Published by Square Enix · Released Sep 23, 2021
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 74% of 781
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 10
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Last update
- 11 months ago
- Oct 9, 2025
What is Actraiser Renaissance?
In this single-player action and city-building game, you play as the Lord of Light, helping people rebuild in a world threatened by monsters. You fight through 2D side-scrolling stages with attacks and magic, then guide settlement growth through the Lord's angel, clearing obstacles and defending against raids with forts and miracles.
For you if...
- +you enjoy alternating platform combat with settlement management
- +you like using magic and forts to defend towns
- +you appreciate expanded character stories in remakes
Not for you if...
- −you want action stages without settlement management
- −you prefer freeform building over guided objectives
What players say
74% of 781 reviews are positive
Players praise the music, added character stories, and action stages. Many complain that frequent dialogue and repeated defense battles make settlement management tedious; some also find the platforming controls clumsy.
Screenshots and trailer
Actraiser Renaissance system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows® 8.1 64-bit / Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor
- AMD A8-7600, Intel® Core™ i3-3210
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon™ R7 240,NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 730
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Notes
- keyboard, gamepad
Recommended
- OS
- Windows® 8.1 64-bit / Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200、Intel® Core™ i5-3330
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon™ R7 260X,NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Notes
- keyboard, gamepad
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 41
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Unsupported
- Not supported on SteamOS
Tags
- Action
- Action RPG
- City Builder
- 2D Platformer
- Hack and Slash
- 2D
- Anime
- 1990's
- Retro
- Base Building
- Story Rich
- Singleplayer
- Destruction
- JRPG
- Mythology
- Platformer
Recent updates
- Oct 9, 2025 · Update Content
- May 2, 2022 · Content of the First Update
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