Wolkenkratzer: Shinpan no Tō

Wolkenkratzer: Shinpan no Tō ("Skyscraper: Tower of Judgment") is an action RPG with no exploration elements, focused entirely on combat and equipment management. The game is set in a mysterious tower in a post-apocalyptic world, which the player must climb to reach the top floor and defeat the monster at the top. After selecting a class, the player starts in the town at the base of the tower, where one can talk with NPCs to gather information, purchase items, or save the game. In the tower, each floor consists of a battle against an enemy, followed by a rest area where the player can search for items — sometimes encountering another enemy — as well as manage their items and equipment, sleep to recover health, or return to the town to save their game and start a new climb up the tower.

Combat in the game takes a side-view action form similar to a 1-on-1 fighting game, with the player directly controlling their character in real-time. While basic attacks and movement are always mapped to the shoulder buttons and d-pad, a wide variety of special moves, magic spells, and items can be found in the dungeon and assigned to various combinations of buttons. Different types of monster are vulnerable to different kinds of attacks, and so the player must gather information to know which moves to equip against which enemies.