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New Arc Line is a party-based steampunk RPG with notes of Bioshock and DishonoredStory trailer introduces a gilded, rotten New World
Story trailer introduces a gilded, rotten New World
Image credit:Fulqrum Publishing
Image credit:Fulqrum Publishing
Fulqrum Publishing have just released a story trailer forNew Arc Line, a new steampunk fantasyRPGin which dragons rub shoulders with zeppelins, and dwarves are as abundant as air pollution. I hadn’t heard of it before and am quite interested, partly because the game sports some wonderfully mangled and colourful dystopian maps, and partly because it’s a story of immigrants trying to find their way to an inevitably deceptive “shining city of progress”, rather than the typical Chosen One fare.
New Arc Line | Story TrailerWatch on YouTube
New Arc Line | Story Trailer
“Craft technopunk gear or master the arcane arts, fight, steal or smooth-talk your way to the top and become the hero or villain you want to be,” readsthe Steam page. “You will not have to face the trials of this world alone, however; find your companions and gather your party, make foes and allies, fall in love, get involved in a massive conspiracy, and change the course of history forever.”
There are four races - elf, dwarf, human and giant - six character classes and 12 subclasses which span the industrial-magical spectrum. If you hate dipping science in your sorcery, you can keep it fantastical and roll an elemental DPS in the shape of a Hellfire occultist, debuff people with Voodoo, or boost your allies as a Celestial sage. Or you can turn your nose up at such wishy-washy superstitious nonsense and get techy as a Steampunk mechanic, Dieselpunk engineer or Teslapunk scientist. I like a game with a selection of Punks. Combat is turn-based and appears to unfold on digestible, arena-sized maps, rather than slopping across whole levels as inBaldur’s Gate.
