Greetings fellow gods,
As this is the first announcement related to the game, let me explain what is Soulash about. In this game, you'll be playing as a long-forgotten god who came back to the mortal world to destroy it. At the beginning of your game, you'll be relatively weak. You just took over a host body of a mortal (or kind of a mortal, when we look at a vampire or lich) to sustain your presence in this realm. While you traverse the open world, you'll come across different mortal beings, and you'll devour their souls to regain your strength. You will leave only a trail of blood and ash on your path.
Soulash is a traditional, turn-based fantasy roguelike with permadeath. It's been in active development for 4 years, and it has been available in the alpha early access for the past 2 years. For the most part, I've been the sole developer of this game, working on it in my spare time. I've recently partnered with a talented graphic designer who's making a beautiful tileset as an alternative to our ASCII mode. You can see our latest trailer below.
We've recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to gather funds to secure our graphics mod for the game and extend the game with a couple of significant features that players asked for over recent years like procedural world generator, factions, servants, building, and more.
We would also love for everyone to have the opportunity to contribute to the game directly as we move toward our first stable release. We've set up a couple of exciting tiers for everyone who likes to play as some specific race or profession currently missing in the game. We're already getting an evolving Demon race, designed by one of the contributors, and we have two more already picked up if we get funded!
Soulash will release on Steam as a stable 1.0 version in 2022. Still, we plan to run a closed beta starting close to the end of 2021, where we will polish the game and implement important quality of life improvements, including Steam Workshop, Achievements, and other goodies. If you would like to join us during this time, we have a contribution tier on Kickstarter that guarantees such access.
If you would like to contribute and be immortalized in the game either on a gravestone, as an NPC, or even a god, support us on Kickstarter here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/asmiarowski/soulash-classic-fantasy-roguelike
In case of any questions, you can catch me or other fans of Soulash on our discord https://discord.gg/Y2dwG4c