Game News Journey across the desert in a sandship in upcoming roguelite tactical RPG Dunebound Tactics

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Tags: Dunebound Tactics; Terahard

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17 OCTOBER 2024 - Terahard Studios is excited to announce its latest title, Dunebound Tactics, a turn-based tactics roguelite RPG set in a wasteland overtaken by the bonedry desert sand. The Steam page launched today and is ready to welcome some wishlists!

Lead your band of survivors on a hazardous trek across unforgiving sands in search of a new home. Battle ruthless factions, scavenge dwindling resources, and make life-or-death choices to keep your sand-faring ship on the move, even if it requires sacrificing your own crewmates!

"Personally, I'm a huge tactics fanatic. We built our very own tactics engine with RPG elements from the ground up for Dunebound Tactics! I'm excited both for the technical innovations as well as the freedom we gave our game designers to create an amazing experience. The art in this game is the best we've managed so far connecting all the little details to squeeze performance and quality." - Aris Tsevrenis, CEO of Terahard Studios

Dunebound Tactics is currently taking part in the Roguelike Celebration on Steam, and can be found in the Procedural Generation category. The event runs from Thursday 17th of October until the 23rd.

About The Game
Dunebound Tactics will push both your strategic and tactical prowess as you navigate the unforgiving wastes. Lead your crew on a daring voyage in search of a new life, making a perilous exodus across Imperial-controlled territories.

Follow the Elios leylines aboard your fragile sand-crossing ship, embarking on a journey where risk and reward constantly intertwine. Power your ship’s engine by gathering Elios through narrative-driven quests, from the bodies of fallen enemies, and—if desperation calls for it—your own crewmates.

Steady your resolve, take the helm, and never look back.

Key Features

• Each Run a Stepping Stone | Your previous mishaps, crushing defeats or triumphs will contribute to your next run, either in the form of modules, or potentially even survivors, as you find the previous caravan’s wreck.
• Dynamic world generation | Whether in combat or roaming through the sands - battlefields, locations or quests will challenge you in new and unexpected ways, making each run unique.
• Strategic Turn-Based Combat | Manipulate a fully destructible and reshapable terrain to mold the battlefield and seize the advantage.
• Friends | Rescue & recruit lost souls to bolster your numbers, but remember, your caravan has limited seats. With a roster of 15 distinct classes and 16 unique traits that enhance skills, stats, or add abilities, every run offers a fresh experience.
• Fuel | Decide whether to heal your wounded in the infirmary after battle takes its toll, or extract the Elios from their bodies, leaving them mere husks, to fuel your ambitions or power the caravan’s engine.
• Foes | Between the Imperials and the Arcanists, your party must face 40 enemy classes in a desperate fight for a better tomorrow.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Dawg that looks kinda fun.

 

[Hellraiser]

Apart from the world map the art style is terrible, looks like a mobile game. Interesting premise though.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

It makes me think of Sunless Sea, but with a conventional TB party combat layer.

 

[Beastro]

"Fake mobile game ad" is not an artstyle anyone should be using.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

fuck yeah! another roguelite rogulike or whatever. what is the difference btw? is there a difference between lite and like? and why does nobody ever just make a 'rogue'?

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[Iluvcheezcake]

This roguelite shit has to die already

 

[Dark Souls II]

Wow nice mobile game you have there. Now kill yourself.

 

[Hellraiser]

It makes me think of Sunless Sea, but with actual gameplay

FTFY

That game is just a meh CYOA made by graphomaniacal hipsters with delusions of cleverness. There's near 0 effort put into anything other than the goddamn walls of the most obnoxious pretentious prose I have ever witnessed in a game.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

fuck yeah! another roguelite rogulike or whatever. what is the difference btw? is there a difference between lite and like? and why does nobody ever just make a 'rogue'?

The term "Rogue-like" indicates a game within the CRPG subgenre established by Rogue (1980), just as Wizardry-like, et cetera refer to other subgenres.

The term "Rogue-lite" indicates a game has copied certain elements associated with Rogue-likes, such as employing procedural generation in level design so that the content of each playthrough differs from the one before.

FTL (2012) and Hades (2020), for example, are Rogue-lite games, although the term apparently wasn't coined until 2013, i.e. the year after FTL released. Also, Rogue-lites often employ a system wherein the player unlocks more initial options, or strengthens the starting position, from making progress in each playthrough, which is not a concept present in Rogue.

 

[Rincewind]

The term "Rogue-like" indicates a game within the CRPG subgenre established by Rogue (1980)

And it's such a great game, even today.

https://github.com/mikeyk730/Rogue-Collection

 

[Bruno]

This might be interesting, if the game mechanics can be good enough to outweigh the artstyle.