Octopath Traveler

Octopath Traveler is an upcoming role-playing game from the team at Square Enix behind Bravely Default and Acquire for the Nintendo Switch. It focuses on a job mechanic with multiple protagonists and each having a different story. It has an "HD-2D" aesthetic that resembles 16-bit-style sprites with highly detailed environments and effects.

Gameplay
The game features 8 protagonists, all with a different job and the game is divided into different storylines based on which character. The jobs all play differently with each focusing on their main command, both on the field and in combat. Each character can also equip a sub-job eventually that gives them the abilities of that job in battle. Skills are also not acquired in any set order. instead, players earn Job Points which can be applied to learn any skill. The weaker skills don't cost that much while the better skills cost a lot more but are more powerful and have better effects

Characters

 * Olberic - Warrior
 * Primrose - Dancer
 * Tressa - Merchant
 * Alfyn - Apothecary

Development
The game was announced at the Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 in January 2017 under the title Project Octopath Traveler. The game received a playable demo released on the Nintendo eShop on September 13, 2017. The demo only featured Olberic and Primrose early in the story. The feedback from this demo was polled which the development used to improve the game.