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The afterlife wasn’t built for us.

Welcome to KATABASIS, a surreal folkpunk pointcrawl about spirits wielding symbolic manifestations of their mistakes in life in an attempt to escape the clutches of death.

You died, and washed ashore in this strange place. You met spirits who told you to accept your fate, who urged you to make do with your new circumstances, but you refused. You need to return to life, and you'll do anything for a chance at it. So you wield your pain and bare your heart, and you set off into the darkness with a group of like-minded fools. You will struggle, you will fail, and you will die a hundred more deaths, but anything's better than lying down and fading away.

This is a beta version of KATABASIS, with enough material to build characters and make your first trek through the lands of death. As the game is updated, all three Circles of the afterlife will be filled in, with new monsters, equipment, Paths, Settlements, and NPCs journeying alongside you. Eventually, we'll even reach the ends of the afterlife, and discover what dark secrets lurk there. Buying now will help me continue adding all the strange and incredible things I have planned for this game, and will also get you all future versions as they're released. Moreover, you'll have the opportunity to shape the game as it's being made- if you have questions, comments, concerns, or want to get involved in playtesting, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

StatusIn development
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
AuthorRathayibacter
GenreAdventure, Role Playing
TagsSurreal

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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $16 USD. You will get access to the following files:

KATABASIS Playtest Doc v0.3.pdf 954 kB
KATABASIS Playtest Doc v0.3 (Spreads).pdf 926 kB

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Claim a copy of KATABASIS, absolutely free! And if you'd like, let me know what you think- I'd love to hear from you!

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Love it just as much as Disparateum and, although I hope they remain separate, I hope you can put the same amount of time and energy into each of them.


However, I got this one as part of the Ind Of The Year pack, so I don't get any exclusive content with that - how do I remedy this?


Thanks

ack! curse you itch, dunno why the variants aren't showing up for you. sending you a key now, lemme know if it helps!

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Nope ... it seems I was panicking about nothing - I got all that with my download, so I must just have misinterpreted it (I thought I needed to pay more for the extra/exclusive content).

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oh wait, i think you might be looking at the community copies text- since they're under itch's rewards system, it has this annoying uneditable text about exclusives. if that's the case, you've got everything already! sorry about the mixup, feel free to give those keys to someone!

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Thanks!

I have just the person in mind too - they're the person I got the Ind Of The Year pack for, so they'll love Disparateum

And I know just the someone else for the KATABASIS keys: they'll thoroughly enjoy it (ME! I'll have my own copy : D) - I was gonna keep this one for myself and they'd get the rest of the IotY pack, but now they can have it too, because I've got my own copy : )