A fast-paced FPS following a sci-fi story taking inspiration from Greek mythology and blending it with fantasy elements. As a security robot aboard a deep space mining vessel, you must face an unknown threat when crewmembers start turning into creatures of ancient myth.
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Why Early Access?

“We are at a stage in the game's development where we believe that extra community feedback and input can greatly contribute to improving the game. Early Access provides us with the opportunity to gather player feedback and improve on, or expand upon the general player experience whilst working towards the final release version.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The current time frame is 5 to 10 months. We would like to get the game to its official launch as quickly as possible. The idea is to bring regular updates so that we can quickly get to a full release version that everyone can enjoy.

We are however open to extending the Early Access development time frame depending on community interest, feedback and requests.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The main focus will be on:
  • Improving overall player experience based on community feedback.
  • Implementing useful feedback and/or highly requested features.
  • Addressing bugs.

Additionally, we are still improving a lot of elements of the game, most notable of which are:
  • Gameplay mechanics and balance
  • Visual art assets and textures.
  • UI, HUD and menus.
  • Sound effects and music.

We are also looking into the possibility of adding extra content and features such as:
  • Extra weapons and abilities.
  • Extra enemies and/or enemy abilities.
  • Extra environmental interactivity.
  • Cinematic story scenes.

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Most of the core gameplay mechanics and assets have been implemented.

In the current state the main features are:
  • A FPS combat system featuring multiple weapons and abilities.
  • Multiple enemies and bosses with different strategies and abilities.
  • Various levels, environments and objectives.
  • Linear story connection all of the objectives and in-game events.

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Yes. In order to get meaningful community feedback it is important for us to set a lower barrier to entry during the Early Access phase. The price of the final release version will be slightly higher.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We will carefully monitor all the feedback we get in reviews. There is also a feedback feature in-game allowing players to make posts directly to the developers. Players can reach us through various social media accounts and we will consider making a Discord channel to interact with them. The feedback gathered through various means will be discussed and considered by the development team.”
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About This Game

Overview

Kronostasis is a action-adventure FPS following a sci-fi story taking inspiration from Greek mythology by blending it with fantasy elements and setting it in the distant future. The game-play emphasize fast-paced action remnant to that of classic shooters. Players will face multiple enemies, objectives and challenges through multiple levels set over four distinctive environments and each level features at least one unique boss encounter.

Back Story

In ancient times the foundations of civilization were seeded by the guild of Magus. Scholars of the guild, known as the wizards of Magus, studied the arcane of magic in the fields of alchemy, astronomy and astrology. Only through decades of study could the most devoted wizards master the arts of magic. These masters were called the Sortiari.

Wizards casted spells that would both aid in the advancement of civilization as well as unleash massive destruction upon ancient battlefields. Wielding such power however came at a great personal cost. Casting magic would rapidly drain the user's life force causing accelerated ageing.

Frustrated by his own dwindling live force, a Sortiari known as Kronos turned to forbidden techniques to gain immortality. Freed from the shackles of time Kronos indulged in magic to a dangerous extent and became consumed by an ever growing desire to shape the world to his every whim.

For centuries Kronos plagued the ancient world turning all manner of creatures into monstrous beings. After aeons of war and unable to defeat Kronos, the wizards of Magus finally managed to entrap him in a rift crafted within the very fabric of time and space.

Fearing that history would inevitably repeat itself the guild of Magus was disbanded and their Accumulated Knowledge was sealed away. Eventually all remnants of their existence was reduced to nothing more than myth and legend.

Setting

In the not too distant future advancement in science and technology led to the development of the hyperspace drive. Hyperspace drives create rifts through time-space allowing access to a time altered dimension known as hyperspace allowing for faster than light travel. Together with advanced cryopreservation techniques, this gave rise to a new era of deep space exploration.

It was however discovered that the cryostasis procedures that deep space astronauts were subjected to caused severe mental stress. Combined with the extended periods of isolation associated with deep space travel this led to a massive rise in incidents associated with dementia and other mental afflictions.

In order to maintain safety aboard deep-space vessels, a new advanced type of artificially intelligent android was developed. These androids known as AIVO units are unaffected by the

Banished and entrapped in a time sphere Kronos is adrift in a time altered dimension. Each time a hyperspace drive creates a rift through time-space it triggers an anomaly within Kronos’s time sphere. Sensing these anomalies Kronos conjured a spell allowing him to align the position of his time sphere with that of the rift causing such an anomaly.

The Phlegethon is in hyperspace nearing the planet S3-15P778 as its final waypoint in a three-year mining operation. As the hyperspace drive opens a time rift in order to drop from hyperspace Kronos senses this anomaly and casts his dimensional alignment spell. As the Phlegethon emerges from hyperspace the dimensional alignment spell bends time and space and the ship collides with Kronos’s time sphere. The ship’s control systems are heavily damaged by the impact, and the crew awake from cryostasis to find that only the basic life support systems are active. They immediately scurry to try and get backup power and control systems online.

Meanwhile during the collision Kronos manages to board the Phlegethon and he starts transforming crew members into mythological creatures to serve as his minions. Those who manage to escape the transformation are hunted down and slaughtered by these creatures.

Due to system damages sustained during the impact, AIVO-D13 the AIVO unit aboard the Phlegethon remained unactivated. Amongst the chaos a crew member manages to bring the backup systems online, and AIVO-D13 is finally activated.

In order to prevent this affliction from possibly spreading to other systems, AIVO-D13 sets out to find and contain the source before he can signal for assistance. He starts battling his way through the service and maintenance quarters toward the control deck.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Includes a lot of violence and blood.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10/11 (64-bit versions)
    • Processor: 64-bit
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia 960 or AMD R9 280
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 7 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10 /11 (64-bit versions)
    • Processor: 64-bit
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia 1060 or AMD RX 480
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 7 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
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