Unrest: An Unconventional RPG Set in Ancient India

[IndiraLightfoot]

Hi all!

 

I stumbled across this interesting CRPG over at Kickstarter and I decided to get on the bandwagon yet again.

 

Unrest is a story driven RPG set in ancient India in the midst of an uprising. Play as ordinary men and women struggling for safety, freedom, food for their children, and a chance at peace.

• Explore the drought and famine stricken streets of an ancient Indian city, where a fog of hunger and discontent shrouds the natural beauty of the land.
• Use the detailed conversation system to instil fear, command respect and gain the trust and friendship of others. Understand your enemies and make them see your side of the story.
• The narrative adapts to failure and death - instead of a game over screen, the plot continues and your fate becomes part of it. However, you can still save and load at any time if you want to.
• Make tough and interesting decisions in the lives of people untouched by destiny. The traditional hero’s quest of prophecy, power, and revenge forms a backdrop to your own struggles.
• Combat is brutal, decisive…and always avoidable. Bloodshed might be the easy way out in some situations, but has lasting consequences beyond those apparent on the surface.
• Hand drawn 2D art and soundtrack based on ancient Indian music to help you immerse yourself in the world.
• Full mod support lets you create your own worlds and adventures.
• Unrest will be available DRM-Free on multiple digital stores, without any DLC or micro-transactions. We promise.
• Iron Man mode to make sure you deal with the consequences of your actions (requested by the backers!).

I really adore what they are aiming for - a deep RPG in a setting rarely used in western RPGs. I loved D&D adventures that used Asian culture and history in all its diversity for scenarios and campaigns. At that, they've taken away button-bashing combat as a necessity to have a RPG game going, joining the ambition of Torment: Tides of Numenera, for instance. I can't wait to play Unrest, and I hope it gets over-funded a hundred times over.

 

Obviously, I realize this is hardly everybody's cup of tea, but I love the dialogue system with emotes and the way the chapters weave into each other, etc.

 

Oh, I nearly forgot the link. Here it is:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/698883673/unrest-an-unconventional-rpg-set-in-ancient-india

Edited May 27, 2013 by IndiraLightfoot

[Nordicus]

It should also be noted that you can sample Adam "Rutskarn" deCamp's writing in the update section of the Kickstarter, he has text-LPs and short stories on http://www.chocolatehammer.org/ and last but not least, is part of Spoiler Warning group, ripping the guts out of narratives in every game they touch, like

Edited May 27, 2013 by Nordicus

[Keyrock]

Low entry point?  check

Linux support? check

Story driven? check

Avoidable combat? check

A non pseudo medieval Europe setting? check

 

Color me interested, mainly because of the setting (I'm so sick of pseudo medieval Europe settings), and the cool mechanic where death isn't the end and becomes part of the story.

Edited May 27, 2013 by Keyrock

[Tigranes]

I love someone doing something in that setting, though the decision to mostly tell me about marriage problems in the video doesn't convince me that the game's doing its best to maximise that setting. Of course, this is fully accepting that I gave it about 30 seconds, it's already funded, and I'm broke. 

 

Will definitely keep track of it.

[Monte Carlo]

It sounds fresh and interesting, but looks like a free browser game. I'm out.

[IndiraLightfoot]

Monte: The graphics they started off with aren't exactly breathtaking, but as it is already funded five times over after just five days, Pyrodactyl are now overhauling the entire graphics fitting their the new level of resources thanks to all the support. They will give examples of the new level of art soon. However, judging by the standard for art in the updates, I'm not worried in the least.

 

Also, I just have to mention that anyone pledging $ 10 will get a digital copy of the game, so it ain't exactly on the expensive side.

Edited May 27, 2013 by IndiraLightfoot

[HoonDing]

It sounds fresh and interesting, but looks like a free browser game. I'm out.

Now, now. No need to insult free browser games.