Hunt for the Lost Folktales

Hunt for the Lost Folktales is a folklore hunting, turn-based adventure where you follow hidden trails to track down escaped folktale beasts, engage in strategic turn-based tactical combat with a focus on stacking fear to deal damage, and capturing their lost tales to return to the Library of Lost Tales so they can live on in memory.

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Fear is both your Strength and Weakness...Stack Fear onto your foes to deal Damage equal to their Fear.

With new Folklore beasts to battle, new Status Effects to counter and new Environmental Hazards to discover, every battle will test your strategy planning on how best to overcome the challenge.

To hunt the beast, you must first learn about the beast...Investigate folktale sightings from your Hunt Contracts to discover traces of their pawprint markings and hints of their scent trails.

Follow these trails to track down the Elder Folktale beast.
Be mindful as there are decoy trails to lead you astray.

Returning the lost books back to the Library of Lost Tales...Every captured folktale returned back to the Library will reward you with Bones, Skulls, and Claws.

Trade them to the Ink Brewer to upgrade your party of recruited folktale beasts to increase their stats and unlock new combat actions.

📚The Story so far...📚

About folktales...
📚Folktales are a way to teach life lessons by turning negative human behaviors into physical manifestations deemed as monsters.
🐺Our main protagonist is cursed to become the very beast that they hunted.

In the beginning...
🐑As peasants turned forests into farmland and domesticated animals, the wolves from the woodlands began attacking their sheep flocks.
🧑🌾Sheep herders bribed the local huntress, skilled in tracking and trapping beasts of all kinds, to take care of their wolf problem.🏹Upon hunting the wolf pack, our huntress was bitten before their last arrow snuffed the life out of the last wolf of the pack.
🐺Trekking back to the village to collect their payment, but as our huntress emerged from the trees a peasant screamed "Wolf!" and arrows began firing in their direction.

Where in the world...
🩸Retreating back into the woodlands, our huntress finds themselves injured and bleeding out from the arrows protruding from their back.
🍄Wandering through the thicket of trees, they finds themselves in a small clearing and collapses inside a ring of mushrooms, losing consciousness.
📚Upon awakening to a blinding light, our huntress is surrounded by columns upon columns of bookcases filled with books and a little flittering will o' wisp.

To be or not to be a folktale in the making...
📜 An Owl greeted the huntress and introduced themselves as a Scribe for the Library of Long Lost Tales.
📖Upon hearing the huntress' story, instead of inscribing it into another book, the Owl Scribe offered them a trade instead.
✨Recover the lost folktale stories for them and they shall return them back to their former self before the curse.

The journey begins...
🐺🐾Hunt these lost folktales, return their stories to the Library, and discover the source of the Story Rifts where the folktales have been escaping from.

👋Hello there!👋

This is a passion project of mine combining drawing mythical beasts, learning about folktales, and creating little games about stories lost in the wilderness.Based on the west coast of Canada, I'm a game developer taking a journey creating independent games to bring my little imagined creations to life.Hunt for the Lost Folktales is inspired by...
The Witcher for the hunting of folklore beasts through Hunt Contracts.
Into the Breach for the turn-based combat where every character has their own unique attack tiles pattern and 2 AP character turn.
Mutant Year Zero for the stealth exploration of the battlefield to ambush your foes while avoiding their detection.I hope you will enjoy the game as much as I had fun making it!

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