History VideoGame / DragonQuestBuilders

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Characters from before the fall of Alefgard, including the Dragonlord, speak like this (in another CallBack to the original ''DQ'', where everyone spoke like this).

* NonstandardGameOver: In chapter 4, [[spoiler:When you face the Dragonlord, he gives you the same choice as he had your predecessor: [[WeCanRuleTogether join him, and he would give you half of the world to rule]]. If you accept, he declares that you will be given the world's "blackest pits and dankest recesses" and tosses you in a tomb, where you die as the last of the life force Rubiss gave you fades away. Afterwards, you'll be booted back to the TitleScreen.]]

* VideoGameCaringPotential: The game does its best to try to get you to ''want'' to help the assorted villagers you come across, you don't have to build them unique rooms and decent beds; but they'll return the favor when you do with applause, battle support (if capable), and crafting items like food while your away that you can pick up later.

* DeadpanSnarker: It's obvious from some of the Builder's responses that he can often get annoyed at some of the requests made of him.

** Early on in the beginning quests, you get to build a Colossal Coffer; a massive, magical treasure chest that can hold a great deal of items and materials. Its most important feature is that you can access it from anywhere in the world, and it automatically receives anything you pick up when your personal inventory is full. This prevents the old problem in Minecraft-esque games of "my inventory's full, now I have to leave all this stuff behind".

* BeefGate: In addition to the typical "enemies are too powerful here" example, you can't break certain blocks unless you have a powerful enough tool to do so. In some cases, even you ''can'' break certain tough blocks - those blocks still won't give you the appropriate material drop unless broken with higher end tools.

* ExactWords: In exchange for joining with the Dragonlord, the hero of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' was granted half of the world to rule over. [[spoiler: Chapter 4 however reveals that while the Dragonlord made good on his promise, exactly how big the hero's half of the world would be apparently wasn't specified in the deal and instead was determined by the villain. The hero's half thus consists merely of a castle with a sign outside saying "half the world" while everything and everywhere else surrounding it is by default the Dragonlord's half.]]
* ExperiencePoints: DiscussedTrope. The Builder is explicitly a class that cannot gain ExperiencePoints through killing monsters, they gain experience through building.

* TheChosenOne: The goddess [[BigGood Rubiss]] awakens your character as the chosen Builder, the only human with the ability to create, after it was stripped by the [[BigBad Dragonlord]].
* TheHero: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Early on, you're told that you are not a hero. [[spoiler:This becomes relevant in the final chapter!]]

** It's obviously AfterTheEnd, but the game starts out hopeful enough, with the few surviving humans all cheerful enough and happy to help you rebuild a city in what why they can. Then you visit the last bastion of humanity that existed before the end. [[spoiler:It's made abundantly clear that the humans, paranoid, selfish, and crowded as they could be, were doing a perfectly good job wiping themselves out. There's no suggestion the Golem turned on an enduring stronghold - it merely hastened what was already a bloodbath.]] [[MoodWhiplash Then things go back to optimistic almost as soon as you leave the area.]]

* WholesomeCrosdresser: The boy Builder becomes this if you equip the Flowing Dress or the Scandalous Swimsuit.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Characters from before the fall of Alefgard, including the Dragonlord, speak like this.

* GoneMadWithIsolation: Implied to be the fate of [[spoiler:the FallenHero. Stuck for countless years alone in a tiny castle after accepting the Dragonlord's offer, by the time you meet him he's a raving loon who actually believes that he rules over Alefgard.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:''Dragon Quest'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' meets ''VideoGame/MineCraft'']]

'''''Dragon Quest Builders''''' is a sandbox action role-playing spin-off of the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and Nintendo Switch consoles. The game is set in Alefgard, the world of the original Dragon Quest video game, and players control the savior who is tasked with rebuilding the world after it was destroyed by the evil Dragonlord. The game features a voxel aesthetic style, with gathering and building elements. The game was released on the PlayStation platforms in Japan in January 2016, and was followed by a worldwide release in October 2016, with the Nintendo Switch release in February 2018 worldwide.

A sequel was announced for the Playstation 4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, with the latter receiving a port of the first game in Spring 2018.

'''''Dragon Quest Builders''''' is a sandbox action role-playing spin-off of the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita consoles. The game is set in Alefgard, the world of the original Dragon Quest video game, and players control the savior who is tasked with rebuilding the world after it was destroyed by the evil Dragonlord. The game features a voxel aesthetic style, with gathering and building elements. The game was released in Japan in January 2016, and was followed by a worldwide release in October 2016.

* ExperiencePoints: DiscussedTrope. The Builder is explicitly a class that cannot gain ExperiencePoints through killing monsters, they gain experience throuygh building.

[[caption-width-right:300:''Dragon Quest'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' meets ''VideoGame/MineCraft'']]

'''''Dragon Quest Builders''''' is a sandbox action role-playing spin-off of the Franchise/DragonQuest series developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita consoles. The game is set in Alefgard, the world of the original Dragon Quest video game, and players control the savior who is tasked with rebuilding the world after it was destroyed by the evil Dragonlord. The game features a voxel aesthetic style, with gathering and building elements. The game was released in Japan in January 2016, and was followed by a worldwide release in October 2016.

* AfterTheEnd: Set after the bad ending of Videogame/DragonQuestI.[[note]]It was originally NoEnding, but Square Enix retconned that the Dragonlord conned the Hero with only a small patch of land.[[/note]]

* CallBack: Characters from before the Fall of Alefgard, including the Dragonlord, speak how they did in VideoGame/DragonQuest.

* ExactWords: In exchange for joining with the Dragonlord, the hero of Videogame/DragonQuestI was granted half of the world to rule over. [[spoiler: Chapter 4 however reveals that while the Dragonlord made good on his promise, exactly how big the hero's half of the world would be apparently wasn't specified in the deal and instead was determined by the villain. The hero's half thus consists merely of a castle with a sign outside saying "half the world" while everything and everywhere else surrounding it is by default the Dragonlord's half.]]

* FallenHero: The game's premise is that the hero of Videogame/DragonQuestI accepted the Dragonlord's offer to rule half the world. [[spoiler:In the years since his ill-fated choice, he has lived out his days ruling over a tiny little castle in Tantegel titled "Half the World".]]
* FlashbackNightmare: The protagonist has dreams about events of Videogame/DragonQuestI.
* GoodMorningCrono: You wake up after a nice, good slumber. [[spoiler: It was centuries; your character dreams of the events of Videogame/DragonQuestI]]