Hey of us, I’m Zhenghua Yang (individuals name me “Z”), and I’m the founder & govt director at Serenity Forge, behind video games like Doki Doki Literature Club Plus and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. Our new title, Homestead Arcana, is a farming journey sport pushed by ambiance and narrative. You play as a Witch who pioneers the vary that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma.
Our Inspiration
The core mission of Serenity Forge is that we concentrate on creating significant and emotionally impactful video games that problem the way in which you suppose. We’re based mostly in Boulder, Colorado, which is surrounded by stunning mountains and huge prairies. Over the years, we had been actually impressed by the significant affect of Colorado tradition, mindset of environmental sustainability, in addition to the grandeur of the native panorama. We questioned, “what would our nook of the world appear like if it had been the locus of some world-altering occasion?” That’s how Homestead Arcana was born.
Uncovering History
In Homestead Arcana, you end up in a post-apocalyptic world. Over millennia, careless use of magic submerged the world in a sea of poisonous miasma. Life throughout the clouds is nearly not possible. The individuals and creatures that managed to outlive within the miasma turned warped, mysterious, twisted, and harmful. Due to this world disaster, a lot of the inhabitants have turn into fearful, reserved, and remoted: however not you. Using spellcraft, mind, and grit, you set forth to revive the land for future generations. Through the course of the sport, you uncover the key behind the Miasma, are likely to your crops and homestead to energy up your spells, and use nature’s magic to revive the land. You discover the submerged ruins and journey to uncover the reality behind the world.
Narrative Adventures
The world of Homestead Arcana is extraordinarily atmospheric, and we actually targeted on narrative storytelling by means of environmental design. We had a very broad vary of inspirations, reminiscent of WPA posters and woodblock prints that seize the grandeur of landscapes within the basic creativeness of Americana, Miyazaki movies like Princess Mononoke, particularly the distinction between lush/stunning nature and the overgrown international wastes in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the damaging and unforgiving nature of Made in Abyss, and likewise the unusual, effervescent, hard-to-pin down supernatural phenomena in novels/movies like Annihilation.
We wished to create a world the place gamers are immersed in constructing their very own dwelling just like video games like My Time at Portia or Stardew Valley, however put them in an isolating and mysterious world just like video games like Shadow of the Colossus.
In addition to the ambiance, we are also very character-centric. Our tales begin with the feelings of the individuals in unusual conditions, and we tease out how they might really really feel in response to the unusual, super-natural challenges they face in the middle of the sport. In Homestead Arcana, you begin by arriving at your crumbling deserted farm together with your trusty acquainted, Huckleberry (who you possibly can pet!), voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. Isolated from civilization, however along with his assist, you slowly study the ropes and begin to settle into your life on the vary. However, you slowly discover that Huckleberry is likely to be hiding much more than he makes seen, and that perhaps the 2 of you aren’t really alone right here in spite of everything.
Farming and survival on their very own are already actually attention-grabbing genres that comprise ample alternative for immersion, roleplay, and consequential participant alternative. In these sorts of video games, gamers wish to discover and poke on the boundaries of the world, which is precisely the mindset we’re searching for to seize. In our sport, this finally ends up main gamers from easy gathering and crafting to unearthing magical discoveries lots of of years within the making.
It’s most likely finest for me to cease right here and allow you to discover the great world of Homestead Arcana your self. I’m so excited so that you can play Homestead Arcana on April twenty first on PC and Xbox Series X|S. Thank you a lot for supporting our imaginative and prescient of making significant and emotionally impactful video games!
Homestead Arcana
Skybound Games
$19.99
Become a farming Witch and pioneer the vary that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma. Discover the key behind its look, develop crops to energy up your spells, and use nature’s magic to heal the land.
Create Your Own Farm
Build your very personal homestead from the bottom up. Discover new crops and have a tendency to your ever-growing backyard to heal the land and make it your individual.
Venture into the Miasma and Discover Its Secrets
Survive the deathly Miasma, the place harmful warped creatures roam free, and discover it to seek out its secrets and techniques.
Find new highly effective crops and spells to develop your backyard
Bring again new crops and spells, develop your homestead, then journey even deeper into the corrupted land in the hunt for new seeds, recipes, and data.
Become an All-Powerful Witch and Wield Nature’s Magic to Heal the World
Tap into the power of nature to craft spells and prepared your self for the mysterious challenges forward as you’re employed together with your pleasant cat acquainted, Huckleberry to beat again the deathly Miasma.
