How the village-building action RPG is described

This is the overview for Warota: I Live Next to The Demon King’s Castle LOL before the 13 November 2026 Early Access date. It stays with the English Steam store page, the appdetails payload, the free demo listing, and the official site. Building is on Village. Job hats are on Hats. The concert is on Demon King.

What Steam says the game is

The short description on the store:

【Village-Building Action RPG】Reincarnated into a ravaged world ruled by the Demon King. Gather resources, build your village, and swap hats to change classes! But when the Idol Demon King throws a live concert, a massive wave of hyped-up monsters stampedes straight toward your village!

The English official site uses the same genre line, “Village-Building Action RPG,” and the same English title. Its Japanese page prints the title ワロタ、俺の家のとなり魔王城www.

Fact	Where it was read on 12 Nov 2026
Release	13 Nov 2026. coming_soon: true on the full game. The store page said the game was not yet available.
Developer	One or Eight and Team EARTHWARS. The English official site writes Team EARTH WARS and lists only that name as developer.
Publisher	One or Eight. The English official site writes ONE OR EIGHT INC.
Price	is_free: false. package_groups was empty, so no number was in that payload.
Platforms	Windows on the Steam platforms field. Mac and Linux are false.
Genres	Action, Indie, RPG, Early Access
Players	Single-player, also on the official SPEC table. Also listed on the store feature row: Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing.
Minimum	Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), Core i5-9400, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, DirectX 11. No disk size was printed.
Languages	English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. Full audio is checked for Japanese only.
Support	support@studio18.co.jp in appdetails support_info. The website field is https://one-or-eight.co.jp/WRT/
Legal	© oneoreight All Rights Reserved.

A Steam event embedded on the store page is titled “100,000 Wishlists Reached!” Its English subtitle says Early Access launches November 13 at midnight JST. That is a store subtitle from the same day, and it does not change coming_soon.

The story the store actually prints

The about text opens with “I got reincarnated, and the Demon King’s Castle is right next door?! LOL”. A goddess rescues your fading soul and summons you to another world, Luna. You arrive as a Bounder, “gifted with the power of creation,” at a single dilapidated house. You fix the house, gather allies, tend the fields, and grow the village. Then the monsters go wild.

The voice is the Demon King, “a pop idol adored by monsters everywhere.” Her line:

This world belongs to us! ♡ Listen up, my lovely monsters! Go wild, break whatever you want, and have some fun! ♡

That announcement starts Demon King Live. The same page later calls her the Idol Demon King and says the castle next door is hers. The English about text does not give her a personal name. The Early Access notes use the words “Platina Chapter” for a content cutoff. This guide does not merge those two phrases into a character biography.

Four systems, one loop

The store splits the game into four feature blocks. Each one has its own page or section here, and each one stops where the store stops.

Village. Gather materials and craft furniture, structures, and more, with over 30 buildings. More buildings bring more villagers, and the store says you and the village get stronger. Details are on Village.

Hats. Hats carry the goddess’s power. The hat you wear is your Job Class. The store names gathering and crafting examples (Farmers, Lumberjacks) and combat examples (Warriors, Mages), and it says there are more than 20 Job Classes. Villagers get hats too: a Farmer, a Chef, and a Guard are the three jobs that sentence names. Details are on Hats.

Blessings. Covered in the next section. They are the combat-style layer, separate from the hat.

Demon King Live. Every concert sends frenzied monsters at the village. You team up with villagers, fortify, hold the waves, and defeat bosses. Details are on Demon King.

Blessings from Goddess Statues

The store’s heading is “Build Your Fighting Style with the Goddess’s Blessings.”

You offer prayers to Goddess Statues scattered across the land. The blessings are described as buffs. The examples in that paragraph are:

• boosting attack power
• accelerating health recovery
• granting elemental attributes

You can stack more than one blessing and, in the store’s words, “forge a combat style entirely your own.”

One store screenshot shows a small character facing a tall white-robed figure in a columned pavilion, with Japanese subtitles. This page describes the frame. It does not translate the subtitles into a statue catalog.

Early Access and the Platina Chapter

The developers’ Early Access notes, on the store page, say closed and open beta tests already happened, and that they changed plans so the game launches in Early Access with content through the “Platina Chapter,” then keeps updating toward an official release.

The same notes say:

• They expect Early Access to last approximately one year.
• The Early Access version can be played through village building, crafting, exploration, and combat. “All main content up through the Platina Chapter” is called fully playable.
• During Early Access they plan to balance gameplay, improve controls, polish core systems, and add new content.
• The price stays at “its current price” through Early Access and is adjusted at the official release. The 12 November appdetails payload did not include that number.
• Feedback is collected through Steam Discussions, official social media, and a feedback form. The paragraph does not print the form’s URL.

The store also discloses AI-assisted translation: initial translations were made with AI and then reviewed by a human editor.

The English official site agrees on the banner (“Early Access Starts Nov 13!”) and disagrees in the SPEC table, which still says “Steam / Winter 2026” and “Nintendo Switch 2 · PlayStation 5 / Coming 2027.” Steam’s own platforms field for AppID 2860490 is Windows. This wiki treats 13 November 2026 as the Steam plan, Winter 2026 as the older line still sitting in that SPEC table, and 2027 as the official site’s console line.

The free demo

The full-game page links a demo. Demo AppID 5214670 has type: demo, is_free: true, and release date 7 Oct 2026 with coming_soon: false. Developers and publisher match the full game. The short description is the same village-building paragraph. Platforms are Windows only.

The demo minimum block prints the same OS, CPU, GPU, and DirectX line as the full game, and then prints 8 MB RAM. The full-game minimum prints 8 GB RAM. Both strings are copied here as Steam printed them. An 8 MB minimum for this game would be an unusual requirement, so treat the demo figure as a listing to re-check in the client, and use the full game’s 8 GB line as the other Steam number.

Neither minimum block printed a disk size. The recommended block on both payloads only restates a 64-bit processor and operating system.

Languages, pads, and ratings

On the English store language table:

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	No	Yes
Simplified Chinese	Yes	No	Yes
Traditional Chinese	Yes	No	Yes
Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes

This wiki is English only.

The store page’s controller block, read the same day, marks full Xbox controller support, PlayStation 4 support including Bluetooth, PlayStation 5 support including Bluetooth, and gamepad preferred. Steam Input API support is false in that block. Keyboard-only is not flagged off. This site has not held a pad.

required_age in appdetails is 0. The ratings object included DEJUS 12, Steam Germany 12, and IGRS 18. No ESRB rating was in that payload.