Wizardry Variants Daphne Unleashes ‘Kingdom Dawn Festival’ for First Anniversary with New Adventurer and Major Rewards

TOKYO, JAPAN – The dark and perilous world of Wizardry Variants Daphne has reached a significant milestone, celebrating its first anniversary on October 15th, 2025, with the launch of the massive “Kingdom Dawn Festival” event. This celebration, which rewards veteran players and provides a lucrative entry point for newcomers, solidifies the title’s position as a premier 3D dungeon RPG in the modern gaming landscape. The event introduces a highly anticipated new adventurer, Yuzunamiki, alongside an unprecedented outpouring of free legendary rewards.

Launched a year ago, Wizardry Variants Daphne—a modern successor to the legendary Wizardry series—has successfully blended the punishing difficulty and intricate party customization of classic dungeon crawlers with a contemporary free-to-play gacha structure. The game’s success on both mobile (iOS/Android) and PC (Steam) platforms, with cross-platform saving, has been a major draw for the RPG community.

Introducing the New Adventurer: Yuzunamiki

The centerpiece of the anniversary update is the release of the new limited legendary character, Yuzunamiki. While initial details position her as a key addition to the roster, early community reports suggest she is a Beastfolk Ninja who specializes in kunai attacks and Charm debuffs. Her strategic value, especially in high-level content, is expected to be significant, appealing directly to the game’s core audience focused on optimized party builds and tackling difficult Abyss challenges.

Her introduction is coupled with new Special Rate-Up Banners, providing players a limited-time opportunity to recruit her and enhance their adventuring parties.

An Unprecedented Rewards Campaign for All Players

Drecom, the publisher, has dramatically increased the value proposition of the anniversary event, making now the absolute best time to dive into the Abyss. The Kingdom Dawn Festival is designed to be a massive boon for player progression and gacha pulls, offering rewards that dwarf previous campaigns.

• Full Legendary Team Potential: The event includes a limited legendary character selector allowing players to choose from five powerful, pre-determined adventurers. This is critical for new players to form an immediate, high-tier starting party.
• Bountiful Free Pulls: Players are receiving up to 20 free pulls of Gems (the primary premium currency), ensuring immediate access to the gacha system.
• Guaranteed Legendary Adventurers: The most valuable giveaway is the inclusion of two Blessed Dawn Remains, each guaranteeing a limited legendary character that has been released in the past year (excluding collaboration units). In addition, 20 standard Dawn Remains are being distributed, each having a 5% chance for a limited legendary.
• Progression Boosts: Daily free ‘bones’ (a summoning resource), Class Change Scrolls, and a returning ‘Bone Picker’ event ensure faster character leveling and skill acquisition, reducing the typical RPG grind.

The sheer volume of high-value items being distributed is a strong strategy for player retention and attracting new users searching for generous F2P gacha games, positioning the game highly in terms of customer lifetime value (CLV) metrics.

New Content and Future Vision

The anniversary update is not just about rewards; it also includes substantial new gameplay features that enhance the dungeon-crawling experience:

• New Bounty System: A new system featuring super bosses has been implemented. These bounties are reported to be more challenging than some of the bosses in the main story dungeons, offering players a new layer of endgame content and valuable rewards, including pull currency.
• Quality of Life Improvements: Improvements to the auto-battling system—allowing players to choose between auto-attack, repeating previous actions, or selecting from AI presets—address community feedback and enhance the casual gameplay experience.
• Easier Gear Grind: Changes to the Sand Shadow Cave, a permanent event dungeon, now allow players to trade a unique currency (Rations) for ‘Heat Haze junk,’ making it significantly easier to farm Samurai and Ninja gear.

The Enduring Legacy of Wizardry

In addition to the in-game event, the Wizardry franchise is also celebrating its 44th Anniversary, with September 15th officially declared “Wizardry Day.” This broader celebration includes the launch of a new manga adaptation, Wizardry Variants Daphne ~The Nameless Final Adventure~, which premieres on the same day as the game’s anniversary, further expanding the franchise’s universe.

This anniversary event is a clear declaration that Wizardry Variants Daphne is a major, ongoing project. By providing an abundance of free, high-impact content, the developer ensures that the community remains engaged, reinforces the game’s reputation as a surprisingly fair gacha system, and promises a future filled with high-risk, high-reward RPG adventure.

Dive into the Abyss now to claim your first-anniversary rewards.