Take control of a legendary greek hero and traverse ancient seas in your trusty trireme. Manage your food and water carefully while visiting islands to gain valuable resources and allies. Engage in turn-based tactical battles with your band of heroes, soldiers and creatures. Death is permanent, forcing you to use the terrain, flank enemies and call upon the gods to aid your small band.
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Our units, events, and artwork is inspired by Greek mythology. Aesthetics and stats are based on limited historical evidence, in so far as a ‘tactics’ game can allow, as well as classic myths such as Homer's Illiad and Odyssey.
Our overworld gameplay was inspired by games like FTL, where you have a single ship you must use to get through the entire game. Our turn based battles are reminiscent of Fire Emblem, where units will die permanently, and counterattack if facing the correct the direction.
At the start of each game you'll pick a hero, each of which has different skills, soldiers and ship abilities at his command. Each hero also has their own objective and special events added to the game.
Guide your Trireme through a procedurally generated archipelago with a large number of potential events. Survive weather and the wrath of the gods turning the sea into your worst enemy. You'll have to carefully plot your course to avoid reefs, shallow water, storms, pirates and sea creatures. All of this is done on an animated map based on ancient maps from antiquity.
Take your hero and their band from the ocean to land, and lead your soldiers into battle. A difficult challenge awaits your limited forces. Against extraordinary odds, use the favour of the gods, the terrain, superior tactics, and creatures of mythology to accomplish your ultimate goal.
Before every battle you will be able to choose which units you deploy. Be careful, as death is permanent and Hades takes both friends and foes alike. You will need to use the effects of the terrain and flanking maneuvers to achieve victory. Winning has a price, and that price will often be the lives of your soldiers.
In addition to commanding normal human soldiers, you’ll also be able to recruit powerful creatures such as Cyclops and Centaurs into your band. You may even find other great heroes willing to join your quest.
We are foolish mortals. Well, actually we are the Foolish Mortals, a small team of independent programmers and artists recently graduated from our local computer science program. Our dream is to build games, and this is our first step. We are proud to present ‘Seafarers of Oceanus’ as our first commercial game project.
After months of hard work we're proud to present Seafarers of Oceanus as our first commercial project.
At the start of each game you'll pick a hero, each of which has different skills, soldiers and ship abilities at his command. Each hero also has their own objective and special events added to the game.
Guide your Trireme through a procedurally generated archipelago with a large number of potential events. Survive weather and the wrath of the gods turning the sea into your worst enemy. You'll have to carefully plot your course to avoid reefs, shallow water, storms, pirates and sea creatures. All of this is done on an animated map based on ancient maps from antiquity.
Take your hero and their band from the ocean to land, and lead your soldiers into battle. A difficult challenge awaits your limited forces. Against extraordinary odds, use the favour of the gods, the terrain, superior tactics, and creatures of mythology to accomplish your ultimate goal.
Before every battle you will be able to choose which units you deploy. Be careful, as death is permanent and Hades takes both friends and foes alike. You will need to use the effects of the terrain and flanking maneuvers to achieve victory. Winning has a price, and that price will often be the lives of your soldiers.
In addition to commanding normal human soldiers, you’ll also be able to recruit powerful creatures such as Cyclops and Centaurs into your band. You may even find other great heroes willing to join your quest.
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Thanks for reading,
Foolish Mortals team
Your game looks really interesting and unique! I love the simple, but stylistically fitting graphical design. I'll continuing to watch your developments.