Outcast Tales: The First Journey... Free!

 

TURN-BASED TACTICAL ROGUELIKE OUTCAST TALES: THE FIRST JOURNEY LAUNCHES FREE ON STEAM TODAY

Keep your crew happy (or don’t) and engage in strategic battles against wandering outlaws in this exciting prologue to the upcoming Outcast Tales game!

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Jan. 29, 2024 – CRITICAL REFLEX is thrilled to launch Outcast Tales: The First Journey, a free playable prologue to the upcoming roguelike Outcast Tales by developer Hardlane Studio, on PC via Steam today. Lead a party of three mismatched outcasts in the post-apocalypse on the hunt for glory and wealth. Venture into the perilous wastes with the prologue’s launch trailer, featuring the game’s narrator, Samuel Barnett, known for portraying Dirk Gently in the BBC series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Delamain in Cyberpunk 2077!

The wasteland is full of dangers - monstrous beasts, scavengers, hunger, and… stubborn personalities? Choose a unique party of three misfits with various roles, personalities and abilities to guide you through the post-apocalyptic desert. Traverse the map building - or destroying - the relationships and morale of your crew, all while devastating your enemies in thrilling and deadly turn-based battles.

Key Features

• Lead a Band of Misfits: Outcast Tales: The First Journey features four characters and five unique personalities to construct your party. Different crew combinations will affect how your team behaves, so experiment on each run for new narrative events and strategic synergies.
• Try Not to Die: Use turn-based abilities in combat to exploit your foes’ weaknesses, and keep your crew’s morale high out of battle to improve their odds of survival. If tragedy does befall your team, don’t worry: you can always start over with a new one!
• Fight Better Together: Outside of combat, narrative events and dialogue choices can change your party’s morale and feelings toward one another, shaping the story as you go. Build their relationships so they help each other out in battle, free of charge! Or let them go at it and see if your band of bickering bandits makes it out alive - some outcasts are outcasts for a reason!
• Precious Pet Companions: Travel with Chomp, an adorable lizard companion, or Awoo, a rescue dograt - just make sure to keep them alive!
• Twitch Integration: Connect the game with Twitch to auto-generate community polls, allowing viewers to influence event options, travel locations, and level-up rewards.

An expansive journey awaits when the complete version of Outcast Tales officially launches later this year. With eight total characters, seven different personalities, an elaborate quest system, branching storylines, world-altering moments and 10 times the narrative events, Outcast Tales will be the adventure of a lifetime!

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Pokemon fans rejoice... over Palworld and... it's obvious why!

Tapping into that Pokemon magic is like hitting a nostalgia goldmine with an infinite vein. Pokemon has been an absolute juggernaut in the gaming world since the 90s, and anything that even remotely smells like that formula is bound to turn heads. Palworld, with its creature-catching and battling mechanics, is like catnip for Pokemon fans, just with a little extra spice and everything not-so-nice thrown in.

Why was it obvious? Come on, the formula's tried and true—people love building up a collection of fantastical creatures. It's like collecting trading cards, but these cards can shoot fire and fly! Plus, Palworld threw in some survival elements, crafting, and a more 'mature' theme that might cater to the original Pokemon generation who are all grown-up now but still carrying that torch for pocket monsters.

The real icing on the cake, or in this case, the Rare Candy on the Pikachu, is the multiplayer component. Bringing friends along for the ride? That's a recipe for some serious playtime and shenanigans, which, let's face it, is exactly what the doctor ordered for gamers who grew up wishing Pokemon was a touch more...social.

In short, mix the love of creature collecting with a pinch of nostalgia, a sprinkle of multiplayer, and a dash of new features, and you've got yourself a concoction that'll sell faster than a Master Ball at the Pokemart. But, if the game's a glitchy mess or as empty as a gym on launch day? 

That's when the Pokemon fans turn from Jigglypuff-cute to Gyarados-furious. So, it was great to see those sales numbers, but let's hope they fix those servers before the fans decide to 'release' their copies back into the wild, so to speak.

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