Fit check
Is The Initial worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Action RPG players who want fast arena battles
- Sword-fighting fans who enjoy electricity-based abilities
- Players seeking multiple difficulty settings and boss encounters
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking open-world exploration or a slow, story-led RPG structure
- Players who prefer relaxed combat without repeated arena fights, traps, and enemy encounters
- Players looking primarily for stealth, crafting, or town-management systems
Our take on The Initial
Rather than centering exploration, party management, or long-form questing, this action RPG places its emphasis on fast arena encounters. Enemy weaknesses, vulnerable states, and direct executions replace a simpler pattern of attacking until an opponent falls.
What is The Initial?
The Initial is an action RPG set in SPE, an area containing a school for students with ESP abilities.
Ruri and Erika must stop an organization collecting combat data to create an artificial girl with ultimate power. Battles take place in arenas and emphasize rapid sword attacks, electricity-based powers, blocking, evasion, and openings against enemies that can respond with their own attacks. Skill points unlock additional abilities, while enemy weaknesses and vulnerable states create opportunities for direct executions. The game includes multiple levels and battle zones, traps, varied enemy abilities, and bosses. Four difficulty settings cover different challenge levels.
How The Initial plays
- 01Arena combat
- Battles use enclosed zones where attacks, blocks, evasive moves, and enemy reactions shape each encounter.
- 02Skill point progression
- Skill points can be spent on new abilities for dealing with enemies in different ways.
- 03Weakness-based attacks
- Enemy vulnerabilities can be exploited to defeat them quickly.
- 04Execution opportunities
- Enemies entering a vulnerable state can be finished directly.
- 05Four difficulty levels
- The game offers four settings with different challenge levels.
The Initial compared to similar games
The Initial focuses on high-speed arena combat with sword attacks, electricity powers, enemy weaknesses, and executions. Ghost of a Tale emphasizes stealth, disguises, conversations, and exploration in a medieval animal world, while Vagante presents a dark-fantasy adventure involving monsters, demons, and treasure-seeking. Dungeon Defenders: Awakened combines cooperative action RPG play with tower defense, loot, leveling, pets, and character customization.
The Initial: platforms & release
Is The Initial worth it?
It is worth it if: action RPG players who want fast arena battles. Skip it if: players seeking open-world exploration or a slow, story-led RPG structure.
Where can I download The Initial?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Initial's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Initial on?
Windows and macOS.
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