Aeon of Sands - The Trail - a retro, post-apocalyptic RPG coming 4 Dec. 2018

[SiENcE]

Hey LÖVEers.

I was quite silent the last 2 years. We where in crunch to finalize our 6+ years project. Wohh.

It was a very, very, very long development time. We started around 2012, but now we have finished it. Release is this December.

I hope you all enjoy the trailer and the upcomming release.

Stay tuned and ...

LÖVE has the nicest and most helpful community i know!

THANK you! Without your help this game would not be possible!

Cheers
SiENcE^Flo

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Aeon of Sands - The Trail is a retro, post-apocalyptic RPG, set in a dangerously pixelated desert world that eats people, and has a taste for city clerks. - Oh, by the way, you are a city clerk. And it's lunch time.

Watch the Announcement Trailer here:

The game follows the misadventures of a likeable slacker, who is suddenly thrown out of his cosy home into a terrible, infinite desert that seems to hate him.

Accompany the vain, nap-loving clerk Setrani through his story.
Guide his travels over a dangerous land, ravaged by the weather and by tribal enmity. Struggle with him, as the desert's wicked sense of humor and unpredictability set him trap after trap on his path.

Setrani is introduced to new situations via multiple choice illustrated dialogues.
Based on your decisions, new areas can be explored while other become inaccessible, you meet new companions or make enemies of them.

It's basically choose your adventure featuring dungeon crawling!

Features
- Extremely non-linear, replayable story with multiple endings
- Real-time combat
- 20 locations and more than 60 mazes and dungeons to explore
- More than 140 dialogues
- Completely hand-drawn 2.5D environment, 240 hand-drawn illustrations
- Up to 2 other characters can join your party during play
- Each character’s personality influences the outcome of the story, and opens up new paths

* Platforms PC: Windows | MacOSX

Available on Steam December 4, 2018


Aeon of Sands official site and socials
- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/907820/
- Official site: https://aeonofsands.com
- Fb: https://www.facebook.com/aeonofsands
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/aeonofsands


Prerelease Press Coverage
https://www.rockpapershotgun.de/tag/aeon-of-sands
“Der Dungeon-Crawler Aeon of Sands verspricht einen “Liebesbrief an die klassischen PC- und Amiga-Spiele der Neunziger...“

indieretronews.com
“An incredible looking crawler that takes us back to the golden age of grid based crawlers...”

Indiegames.com
“Aeon of Sands transplants the classic first-person RPG to the desert ruins of a lost city, brought to life through hand-drawn art and strategic combat.”

[Nelvin]

The game looks really great ... all the best for the release and your hopefully many sales

Also really looking forward to the postmortem.

Any plans for a release on other targets in the near future too?

[ivan]

Well done. Great to see this project finally come into fruition. I know it's been under development for a while

[SiENcE]

Any plans for a release on other targets in the near future too?

Sure but after release. Linux is on my plan in the near future. But with only 4 wishes on Steam Wishlist...that's more work than it brings in. Sadly. Also supporting this over a longer time might be an issue.

Later maybe Android and iOS...but therefore we have to adapt everything for touch. This means a whole rework of the GUI, GUIsystem and balacing. This needs a lot of time.

[pedrosgali]

Congratulations, the game looks awesome. Can't wait to play it.

[SiENcE]

Congratulations, the game looks awesome. Can't wait to play it.

Thanks a lot!

If you like, please add the game to your Steam Wishlist.

This would help us to get more Steam coverage and bring another Löve Game on Big Steam Screen .

[randomnovice]

This looks brill!

[SiENcE]

This looks brill!

Thanks a lot.

[SiENcE]

We got covered by RPS.

I’ve never seen a game do any of this so eloquently, and so specifically, while maintaining a sense of humour about it.

It’s not often that the opening spiel of a game can inspire an entire feature, but Aeon of Sands’ completely took me by surprise.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/1 ... t-opening/


happy reading

[ivan]

Well done! We're all keeping our fingers crossed.