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 where fear is your strength, and capturing their lost tales to return to the Library of Lost Tales so they can live on in memory.
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To hunt the beast, you must first learn about the beast...
Investigate Folktale sightings in your Hunt Contracts to discover hints of about their trails and follow them to find the escaped Elder Folktale beasts.While you explore the wilderness, you will encounter patrolling beasts that you can stealthily sneak around or ambush them into battle.
Fear is both your Strength and Weakness...
Fight fearsome Folktales in Turn-based tactical combat where stacking Fear on your enemies will determine how much Damage they will take.Deploy your own party of recruited Folktales to aid you in battle.
Each with their own skill set for you to learn and master in combat.The Wild Woodlands world book will feature 3 distinct wilderness regions.
Each with their own Folktales to battle, Status Effects to counter, and Environmental Hazards to take advantage of in battle.
Returning the lost books back to the Library of Lost Tales...
Every captured Folktale Book returned back to the Library of Lost Tales will reward you with Bones, Skulls, and Claws.
Trade them to the Ink Master to upgrade your party of recruited folktale beasts to increase their stats and unlock new combat skills.
📚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.
In the beginning...
🏹On the outskirts of a village surrounded by woodlands, you play as a Huntress who has been cursed to become the very beast that she has hunted to the brink of extinction.
🐺Having been bitten by a wolf on your last hunt, you find yourself transformed into that very beast. Panic-stricken and wounded, you collapse suddenly into a deep slumber within a fairy ring of mushrooms.
To be or not to be a folktale in the making...
📖Upon awakening, our Huntress finds themselves in an otherworldly Library run by Bird Scribes.
📜Upon hearing your tale, the Bird Scribes offer you a trade to rewrite your story returning you to a time before your curse, in exchange for your help in hunting the escaping Folktales from their Library.
The journey begins...
🐺🐾Track the escaping Folktales, storybind their tales, and return them to the Library of Lost Tales. Be wary as you are not the only hunter to roam these Wild Woodlands.
Based on the west coast of Canada, Howling Lost Tales is a one person game developer working with 2 audio collaborators to create Hunt for the Lost Folktales, a folklore hunting turn-based adventure coming soon to the Steam platform.This is a passion project of mine to share my joy of reading about folklore stories from around the world, drawing mythical creatures, exploring the wilderness, and bringing them all together through creating games about stories lost in the wilderness.
Hunt for the Lost Folktales is inspired by...The Witcher for the hunting aspect of folklore beasts in Hunt Contracts.Into the Breach for the turn-based combat where every character has their own unique attack tiles pattern and simplified 2 AP character turn.Mutant Year Zero for the stealth exploration of the battlefield to ambush your foes while avoiding their detection.Every Wishlist helps for all the little games built by little teams!
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