Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian is a second game in the series planned for 2025

Koei Tecmo and Gust the next game in the long-running and prolific Atelier series: Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian. It’s coming to PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch in🅠 2025.

I’m only realizing now that we skipped a year in this often-annual series. Unless you count the mobile-focused, free-to-play Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator. I don’t, because I prefer to push knowledge of that sector of video games out of my brain, but I suppose Koei Tecmo and Gust do since The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian is set in the same world.

We don’t know much about it at this point beyond the short teaser trailer. It’s also going to be a paid, single-player, console-focused, offline game. Beyond that, the press release says, “this new Atelier title will embark players on a magical adventure, featuring a new protagonist.” The “magical adventure” part can be applied to every Atelier game, but I guess the “new protagonist” pa﷽rt tells us something.

This is somewhat surprising since Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land was previously announced👍 and is also aiming for a 2025 release. It’s bold to release two titles of these games in the same year since they’re invariably 40-5♚0 hours long.

For a short while, I reviewed the yearly Atelier titles here at Destructoid, but I fell off with Atelier Ryza 3. By “fell off,” I mean I was practically writhing in agony at the thought of doing another. Don’t get me wrong, they’re enjoyable games. They’re often very similar but com🀅monly come with new features and different mechanics. However, it’s 40-50 hours of microprogression-laden gameplay. Smacking resource nodes, filling your pockets, crafting shit. Over and over and over. It was like a targeted attack on my personality; a way of priming me for a life of boring office work.

So, my recommendation is to play at ꦯyour own pace and don’t just pick up🎶 every new release, but that’s just based on my personal preferences and experience.

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian is p✤lanned for release in 2025 and is coming to PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch.