Prometheus Wept

It's also worth mentioning that Vigilantes is currently 40% off on Steam

 

Story and writing in general are pretty basic, but entertaining.

Combat has a lot of depth, with several different weapons of every type (unarmed has different attacks). Each of main antagonists (mobsters, survivalists and cult) is different- from equipment they use, stats of their members to their rackets.

It's a bit repetitive- you scout for enemy encounters, fight the enemy, gather intel about one of the smaller bosses, eliminate the boss/racket. After you got them all you can gather intel about the main boss and eliminate him. Repeat for the 2 remaining factions (nothing forces you to focus on 1, you can go after all 3 at once).

Difficulty is alright (played on hard and had a challenge, but nothing too frustrating).

You can spare or kill the enemies- turning off killing blows lowers your crit chance. Killing affects the ending you get.

There's base building (similar to XCOM- infirmary, training rooms, etc) and crafting (also similar to XCOM).

TL;DR: Combat heavy, a bit repetitive. Overall recommended.

 

Hi!

Daithi the developer here. Thanks for sharing the news about the Prometheus Wept @Proletären ! If anyone has any questions about the game, or what it's like for a small studio (1 full time dev, 2 artists part time) to work on something of this scale, feel free to ask!

I'm aware there are loads of post apoc games, and I'll nudge Prometheus Wept in a slightly different direction. The typical routes to the fall of civilization (WMD, natural disaster) are avoided for what appears to be a computer virus. While the virus disabled most digital devices, it granted machine learning capabilities to a limited number of more complex computer systems, which are beginning to emerge as the world's first true AI's. Unfortunately, these AIs are quite insane by human standards. So while there are outlaws, the majority of the action is driven by conflict between these AIs and human communities. This is one of them.



@Alphons - you've hit on my biggest issue with instance based turn based games (like X-Com, Vigilantes) and the reason I switched from this format to a traditional RPG for Prometheus Wept: repetitiveness. There's a lot more work in a trad RPG though, hopefully it was a good decision

 

Thanks @Proletären - I'm curious, what are the main things you think Fallout did right that the moderns miss?

 

I think I can do well with the locations. A few people have gotten in touch about the Drag, a worn down fishing village, where you must pacify the crazed residents. The setting avoids the more common post-apoc tropes and I've been thinking about how the various communities operate for a long time. Two things I believe I can do better than most RPGs are variety - there will be substantial shifts in gameplay, setting and tone for each act, and reactivity. In many RPGs your actions don't have notable consequences - for Prometheus Wept, virtually every mission which leads up to the act finale will modify the difficulty of it in some way.

 

Yeah, it's been a rollercoaster. Hopefully the 48 hour left notification will push it over the line. Cheers!

 

Hey @Proletären - some extra funding would be nice, but I'm really grateful to just have hit the goal. The idea of spending a month of dev time on Kickstarter and not getting funded would be big blow to morale

 

I played the original Atom and thought it looked very good. Prometheus Wept currently has the same camera setup as Vigilantes, I'm planning to have another look at how the camera works though.

 

Nice, I'll add it to my wishlist

 

This development log covers the work on Prometheus Wept in Dec 2021, including the addition of a healing manager, writing & the creation of a number of character models.

 

Hi again!

Here's the development log for January 2022.



The focus this month has been on creating and adding the content for act 1. In particular, an optional objective, to discover the source of the outbreak in the Drag, and the second mission for act 1 has been added. All the groundwork is in place for act 1 mission 3, including an extra map which was created earlier this week. Environment weapons have been re-introduced, including an energy cell, which can be wirelessly activated by the protagonist to damage nearby enemies, and the lethality system has been revised. If you have any questions or feedback, do let me know