Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds - coming to Early Access on August 8th

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https://www.guildsaga.com/vw

Enter the Realm of Aarde:
Where an enraged deity threatens his wrath upon humanity in search of vengeance; tensions begin to boil as the kingdoms of man, elf, and beast teeter on the cusp of war; all while a mysterious cabal attempts to resurrect an ancient evil that once tore the world asunder. Though you are but a mere fledgling on your first mission in the name of the Heroes Guild, you will inevitably find yourself entwined in some of these catastrophes...

Classic Turn-based Combat
Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds features a tactical turn-based battle system reminiscent of many old-school RPG classics. Assemble your party and hone your strategy in order to vanquish your enemies.

Endless Customization
Customize your player character and companions to create the perfect party:
• Choose from over a hundred skills spread across ten different schools to learn
• Increase attributes to grow stronger, unlock dialogue options, or gain exploration boosts
• Sift through thousands of items—each with their own flavour texts—to find the perfect fit

Assemble the Perfect Party
Build your dream party by recruiting heroes, wizards, misfits, and even animal companions scattered throughout the continents of Aarde.

Fully Customizable Companions
Companions have inventories, equipment, and skills separate from yours, allowing you to build them in any way you see fit. Companions may also bring along character-exclusive skills that may allow for alternate, uncanny styles of play.

More Than Friends
Your companions are more than just allies in battle! Each companion is recruited differently and comes with their own unique backstory, side quests, as well as hours of meaningful dialogue. They might even impact the game's story in a major way depending on the choices you make!

Become a Master of Professions
Mine, fish, cook. Craft, enchant, brew. Or, pick at someone's pocket or locked chest. These are just a fraction of the professions one might acquire while exploring the lands of Aarde.

Gather Resources
Many professions such as fishing, woodcutting, and herbalism allow you to gather materials outside of battle. You could sell your finds to a merchant for silver, or keep them around to craft or use later.

Craft & Enchant Items
Put your accumulated materials to use in various crafting or enchantment-related professions. Give your party a boost in battle with stat-enhancing dishes from Cooking, add elemental buffs to your weapon using Alchemy, forge new equipment with Crafting, and more.

Artisan's Edge
Many of the game's best items—such as Dragonscale or Dragonhide gear—require mastery in one or more professions to process into usable pieces. Plus, certain NPCs will only speak to you once you've levelled certain professions!

Immersive Story Campaign
Experience a thoughtfully-crafted main narrative, alongside countless meaningful character stories through NPCs, side quests, and lore found in items and the environment.

Your Decisions Matter
The choices you make can impact the world around you. Curry favor with certain characters to be rewarded with items or access to their homes; or incur their wrath by brazenly picking their pockets in broad daylight.

Branching Paths
Many puzzles often come with alternative solutions. Explore them during subsequent playthroughs to discover new areas, stories, and perhaps even a missable companion or two. If you're persistent enough, you might even alter the fate of the world...

Demo gameplay:

 

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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2184350/view/7663507472066941550

nventory/Level up UI Reworked
A quick overview of improvements made to the inventory and level up UI
Happy Monday!

One of the most commented on and requested features coming out of the Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds demo has been improvements to inventory management and leveling up.

Today, we wanted to highlight some of the improvements that have been made in this regard and that you will find when the game releases in Early Access.

Inventory

• General visual redesign provides a more pleasant, less cluttered UI
• Filter toggle buttons added: Armor, Weapons, Crafting, Consumables, Books, Misc
• Search bar
• Sort by: recent, type, rarity, value.

Level up UI

• General visual redesign provides a more pleasant, less cluttered UI
• Assign and unassign points freely prior to "locking in" selection
• Tooltips providing written explanation added when hovering over attributes

Watch a quick overview video:

 

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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2184350/view/4137192029928816105

Early Access Launch Delay and Roadmap
An important update regarding the Early Access Launch date; plus, check out a release/update roadmap.
Hello everyone,

I would like to share with you an important update regarding the release date of Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds. In order to add more content and features, we have decided to delay the Early Access release until August 8, 2024.

This was not an easy decision, but we wanted to make sure the game is in a state, on Early Access launch, that meets our expectations and is inclusive of the community feedback we received from our demo.

I attached to this announcement a graphic showing a high level overview of our release/update roadmap for Early Access and beyond. I’ve also gone ahead and provided further details on what we’ve been working on and what to expect in terms of features for Early Access that would not have been present in the demo.

As always, we welcome and value all your feedback! Your feedback from the demo was very valuable and tremendously appreciated--we will continue to tailor the game based on your input.

Early Access
Misc features

• Advanced AI (includes ability for AI to morph, use advanced movement skills, more intelligent repositioning, more precise decisions)
• World Map and fast travel system
• Romance dialogue options; romantic outcomes added to relationship system (romantic outcomes will not be reachable during EA content)
• Advanced party splitting and battle interaction (have some party members in battle and others outside of battle, merge battles, advanced formation freedom prior to battles, etc.)
• Reconfiguration of magic skill damage and wand/staff weapon damage
• Various QoL additions to the settings menu, such as text size, and advanced audio options
• Localization system, with the goal of having at least full Chinese localization for Early Access, with more to be added on a going-forward basis
• Pre-battle alternative idle animations for increased immersion
• Functionality for hybrid hostile or non-hostile areas, allowing for branching paths and passive vs aggressive routes to objective completion
• Digging mechanic (if you have a shovel, dig anywhere on any map to try find loot)
• Stash system (item “bank”)
• Various additional battlefield “objects”, such as barriers, explosive barrels, totems, etc
• Support for multi-way battles (more than 2 “teams”), and neutral third-parties.
• Ability to change look direction during turn for 0 AP
• Added lore to race selection during character creation
• Recent dialogue history UI
• Equipment/loot – 1000+ unique items
• More freedom to use skills, including ally and object targeting

Skill variety – 100+ unique skills (generally around 10-15 per school), including:

• All new summons, including a shadow assassin and obsidian warrior
• Battlefield-altering spells that allow the player to summon mechanical turrets and walls of ice
• New weather conjuring skills, such as thunderstorm and apocalypse, that involve random hazards,
  warned hazards, and summons

Inventory upgrade

• General visual redesign provides a more pleasant, less cluttered UI
• Filter toggle buttons added: Armor, Weapons, Crafting, Consumables, Books, Misc
• Search bar
• Sort by: recent, type, rarity, value.
• Expanded space

Level up UI improvements

• General visual redesign provides a more pleasant, less cluttered UI
• Assign and unassign points freely prior to "locking in" selection
• Tooltips providing written explanation added when hovering over attributes

In
Content Update 1
, we will be adding Attack of Opportunity, as well as other features based on feedback received during Early Access. This update will conclude a questline which will see your party traveling to a Respite Island of a bygone era, when Elves ruled over the Mystic Archipelago. Now with all the requirements met (a ship, crew, and protective artifact), the player will be able to set sail to other islands in the Mystic Archipelago, each with their own unique storylines, from hidden gladiators arenas and smugglers dens, to the residence of a mad doctor.