After reporting on it mere days ago, Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen has succeeded its funding on Kickstarter.
Developed by German studio Ceres Games, the game’s crowdfunding campaign launched on October 16th and is running until November 15th. The project raised over $117,000 USD from over 2240 backers to finish the game on Windows PC.
The game’s first stretch goal reached has secured Italian cartographer and artist Francesca Baerald to create digital and physical maps of the game world. Due to high demand by the fans and backers, the developer added localisation for Spanish, Italian and Chinese languages.
Other stretch goals include adding Casey Hollingshead and Scott Hamm (Battle Brothers) to the writing team, composer Kai Rosenkranz (Gothic I, Gothic II, Gothic 3, Risen) to contribute three additional tracks to the game, and the addition of the Monk class.
You can find a full run-down below:
A classic single-player RPG featuring a party-based character system and tactical turn-based combat evolved from the SRD 3.5e ruleset.
Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen is inspired by the classic RPGs of the 80s and 90s, taking the best elements of the beloved old classics and reforging them into something new in a powerful modern engine
Main Features:
- A complex turn-based combat system featuring hundreds of spells, feats and actions, based on the rules described in the (3.5e) Revised System Reference Document (SRD) covered by the Open Game License v1.0a (OGL) by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
- Custom-built, isometric graphics engine that combines zoomable 2D and 3D technology to bring never-before-seen levels of detail to life in massive, hand-crafted levels.
- A bustling open world spanning entire continents, replete with believable NPCs, complex cultures, factions, societies and a fascinating centuries-long history.
- Create a party of up to six characters where you can choose from 7 different races and 8 different classes and completely customize their appearance, equipment, feats, and skills.
- More than one hundred spells, each with unique, stunning visual effects.
- Over a thousand individual items to use and interact with.
- An epic background story, massive quests, uncounted missions, hordes of monsters and a world that is steeped in lore and mystery.
- Create your own adventures, campaigns or even entire worlds using the powerful RPG Engine of Realms Beyond.
