I like what they have so far. Looks influenced by Mass Effect as well, specifically in starting with a protagonist of either gender, two hot human crewmates of each gender, and a hot blue alien crewmate.

Yes Sega owns the AP IP, but as you said they seem to have given up on it when the game didn't sell well. So maybe with enough funding from KS Obsidian might buy it back. It's pretty unlikely though, and I guess we're much more likely to get some kind of spiritual successor if they ever decide to do something like AP again.

I'd also like something different than the standard fantasy (or the recently in thing with a post apocalyptic setting) RPG fare, even if I have fun with those too. There are so many other underutilized settings you can use for an RPG. It's too bad so many RPGs set in more original worlds have been commercial flops.

Though it's surprising she has four arms instead of four boobs....:D

Unlockable content? DLC? ;)

I think I'm required to support this one based solely on its name. But it does looks good. Early Fallout series aesthetics, mixed with Art Deco.

Now for something completely different ...

Jellio Toy Chest Collection. A set of cool furnishings inspired by childhood toys. Done by a friend of my wife. Take a look.

"Gameplay time: 15-20 hours main storyline & 20-30 hours of side quests (first season/year). More than 20 FREE chapters are planned after release, with 3-6 hours of gameplay each, to tell the whole tale."
Game isnt complete at launch?.

Wow, 20 free DLC packs that each add 3-6 hours of gameplay sounds really overambitious, especially for an indie game made by a studio that, as far as I can tell, has never shipped a game before. Heck, even the 35-50 hours of gameplay in the base game seems like a lot to produce for a small team going for high production values with only $70k of funding. That being said, I do like the concept art and Fallout-meets-Bioshock aesthetic... I just think that they may be more familiar with the design and art rather than the development and business.

What concerns me is the whole tale isnt told with the base game and u need the DLC to get the complete story....thats my interpretation?

Yeah, the DLC chapters would supposedly be free, but I would still worry about them actually being able to finish all of the chapters and the storyline. It looks like their Kickstarter promises a new 3 - 6 hour chapter every 2 - 3 months, which also sounds like a very ambitious goal for a small indie team. They promise more than 20 additional chapters after the game's release, so even if they somehow manage to squeeze out one chapter every 3 months, that's a minimum of five years that the players would have to wait for the conclusion of the plot. For the dev team, it means five years or more spent working full-time or more on free content for their aging game while they could have just made a focused 30-hour game that's complete upfront and spent the rest of their time developing a sequel and having more freedom to actually improve and change the engine/gameplay.

Now that's a DLC nobody would say "no" to :D

Ach, I didn't notice this aspect of the planned release. It does indeed sound like pie in the sky, and I wouldn't be surprised if after the initial game release the devs went "Well, sales aren't what we hoped, so it's with a heavy heart that we have to cancel the rest of the chapters". Perhaps if they were an established studio this plan might be feasible, though that's a ton of content updates even then. I don't know of any game that I've played which went beyond 5 DLCs that meaningfully extended the storyline.

Areal, spiritual succesor to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1577656602/areal


WARNING: Vostok Games, creators of Survarium, have expressed their corcerns about this project Thanks to the GOG forumites that have pointed out this might be a scam.

Looks interesting, but many people in the comments are thinking the project is a scam

Not only people in the comments -- a dev from Vostok Games (former STALKER devs) said this: