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The multi-award winning World War 1 strategy RPG launches today
on
Steam for PC. The critically acclaimed title
originally launched on mobile and PC in 2012. The title
successfully passed Steam’s Greenlight process and now
arrives as a fully-fledged game on Steam. The Steam launch includes
updated graphics and the bonus DLC “Kaul's Dairy”,
which had previously only been available on iOS and is priced at
$5.
The game features 14 levels set in the trenches of World War
One. The player controls a team of up to six investigators charged
with uncovering a deadly inhuman conspiracy underlying the clash of
empires of the
Great War. Barbed wire,
mustard gas and machine guns prove to be the least dangerous
challenges the investigators encounter as they venture into no
man's land to solve the mystery of the Wasted Land. As the game
progresses, the player must build up the team's skills, weapons and
equipment to counter the rising tide of darkness. As well as the
physical danger, the investigators must guard their sanity against
myriad horrors that threaten to destroy them.
To stay in touch with the developers and get updates on the
game, help and strategy guides, connect to Red Wasp Design on
Facebook,
Twitter and on their site at
redwaspdesign.com
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a cult US horror writer. For more
on him and his work, see
here.
Chaosium is the US based publisher of the award winning
table-top RPG, Call of Cthulhu, and they can be found
here.
More on Lovecraft's work in relation to WW1 can be found
here.
More about the WW1 authenticity in the game can be found
here.
The game trailer can be found on
YouTube here.
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