Procedural layouts.
Most rooms are assembled into a new layout each run. The four-trainer gauntlet and Boss Room always wait at the end.
ASOBIMON EXPEDITION / CLOSED BETA
ASOBIMON
EXPEDITION
One Asobimon.
A fresh run.
Make every choice count.
Build a party through captures. Read a changing floor. Decide how much you can risk before the Boss Trainer.
THE RUN / A FIELD GUIDE
Start small.
Go prepared.
- 01
Start in the Card Room
Each floor begins here. One NPC handles shopping and HP restoration, while another tells you which two room themes are on the floor.
- 02
Explore the floor
Move directly between connected rooms, investigate side paths, and backtrack freely.
- 03
Build your party
Find encounters, make captures, and manage six party spaces.
- 04
Read the room
Events, shrines, and weather modifiers change what you encounter.
- 05
Manage the run
Protect health and mana while deciding when to spend money, items, and capture cards.
- 06
Reach the Boss
Clear four unavoidable trainers in the room before the boss, then take what remains into the final fight.
A different floor
each run.
Floor themes.
Each floor chooses two room themes, such as Woodland and Mountain.
Room modifiers.
Rooms can gain special conditions that change their atmosphere or encounters.
Rainy
Rain falls across the room.
Thunderstorm
Lightning strikes across the room with its own audio.
Blackout
Visibility drops and familiar paths become harder to read.
Moonlit
The room shifts to nighttime.
Warped
The room takes on a warped version of its floor theme.
WHAT’S IN THE NEXT ROOM?
See what
shows up.
Grass holds wild encounters. Rooms can also spawn powerful wandering Asobimon, trainers, shrines, events, or items.
THE JOURNEY
WILD ENCOUNTERS
Walk through the grass to encounter wild Asobimon and find possible additions to the party.
WANDERING ASOBIMON
Special, powerful Asobimon can spawn walking around the overworld where you can see them before engaging.
TRAINERS
A trainer can spawn in a room and turn exploration into a battle.
ITEMS
Items can appear in rooms and reward checking paths away from the shortest route.
SHRINES
Shrines can periodically appear and follow their own rules.
EVENTS
Events can introduce a choice, a trade, or an unexpected consequence.
THE FINAL STRETCH
Four trainers. No way around them.
The room before the boss is a trainer gauntlet with four unavoidable battles.
The Boss Trainer.
Whatever survives the gauntlet goes into the floor’s final fight.
BACK AT THE START
The floor starts in the Card Room.
The same NPC sells limited supplies and restores HP for a price.
A second NPC tells you which two room themes, such as Woodland and Mountain, are present on the floor.
EVENTS / A DIFFERENT KIND OF ENCOUNTER
Events on
the floor.
When an event spawns, it can trade information, resources, health, or money for a new option. Leaving is also a choice.
Black Market Vitamins
Pay for a strength boost, then accept the damage the rough dose causes.
Map Scout
Pay to reveal the rest of the current floor, or keep your money and continue with what you know.
Field Researcher
Choose one party member for a scan. The result can respond to its condition, origin, or strength.
Sealed Cache
Pay to open it safely or ask a teammate to force the seal and take damage for the attempt.
BUILD YOUR RUN
Catch a teammate.
Make room.
During a run you can catch new Asobimon, gain DVs, find and use items, spend money, choose when to recover, and shape a team for the floor boss. The Deck cannot be opened once the Expedition begins. If the party is full, another capture means releasing someone first.
- 01Catch new Asobimon
- 02Manage six party spaces
- 03Use finite items and cards
- 04Gain DVs through battle
- 05Prepare for the Boss Trainer
RUN RESOURCES
Keep something
in reserve.
Reaching the boss is not enough. You need a party that can still fight when it gets there.
- Health
- Damage carries through the run. Fainted teammates stay in the party until revived, and a full-party defeat ends the run.
- Mana
- Moves consume mana, so a powerful answer now can leave fewer options later.
- Money
- The Card Room shop, HP restoration, and some events all compete for the same funds.
- Items & Capture Cards
- Supplies are finite. Every use changes what remains for the next room.
- Party Space
- The Deck is unavailable during a run. A full six-member party means releasing someone before another capture.
THE FLOOR BOSS
Everything left
goes into this fight.
FLOOR COMPLETE
Defeat the boss.
Winning completes the floor and presents the choice to exfil or keep going. Floor 2 is not playable in the closed beta, so continuing ends the run.
WHAT CARRIES FORWARD
After
the run.
Safe after exfil.
Newly captured Asobimon remain at risk during the run. After defeating the boss, a safe return to the hub registers every captured teammate to your collection. A defeat before exfil loses unsecured captures.
Secured by the boss.
DV growth earned on a floor becomes secure when that floor’s boss is defeated, even if you choose to continue rather than exfil immediately.
Temporary by design.
Run levels are synchronized back to Expedition’s base level when an Asobimon returns to the hub. The secured dedication behind that growth remains.
Floor summary.
The floor-complete screen records encounters, trainers, captures, events, rooms, money, time, and secured monsters.
BACK AT THE HUB
The Expedition
hub.
Research
Staff explain floor themes, modifiers, and how Expedition growth works.
Recovery
Every Asobimon that returns to the hub is fully treated.
Hall
The Explorer Lodge offers run advice.
Records
The Return Center registers safely returned captures.
CURRENT BUILD / ROAD AHEAD
One floor works.
Seven still need work.
Asobimon Expedition is in closed beta. One complete procedural floor is playable, while the full eight-floor game is still being built. More rooms, content, art, balance, and the remaining seven floors are in development.
No release date is being promised. The development notebook tracks what is finished, what is active, and what comes later.
Development notebook →