Maliki: Poison of the Past is coming out soon and it looks promising for those seeking not only a new turn-based RPG, but one that's in an anime-inspired art style and a realistic-looking world. There aren't a ton of games set in a real-ish world that have been released recently. There's Echo Generation, which went for a voxel art style and a real world-inspired setting while also blending in Paper Mario-style combat and that's really about it. Maliki features an anime-inspired cast and puts 3D models based on those drawings into this world that makes things almost look like a diorama.
Maliki combines party-based combat with a life sim allowing for you to go from a crazy anime-styled opening video and animated cutscene into chopping trees and then fighting enemies. There's a blend of powers to use from plant-based to things like pitchforks when playing as a farmer, swords, plant-based attacks using vines and even blasters. Each party member will seemingly be class-based to some degree or at least skill-based differences. You can also launch animals at folks and that seems just bizarre but also super-fun....
