The Game

A retro futurist occult thriller game set in a near future world recovering from a virus known as the blight, you play a paranormal detective summoned by a mysterious benefactor known only as Rasputin. Featuring RPG elements, multiple endings, combat system, hundreds of artworks generated by Midjourney and an original soundtrack by Scottish composer / producer Donny Gray (Copperknob on Spotify).

City of The Damned Tutorial

The City of the Damned is an Interactive Fiction game with roleplaying elements set in a futuristic city based on an imagined Vienna being rebuilt after a great disaster.

Gameplay

Control System

Choices are made via tapping on the choices you are presented with whilst playing

Skills

Skills are upgraded via actions - the more you use a particular skill the better you will get at it, however there are circumstances that can also lower your skills if you take certain actions in the game.

Choices

Some choices and paths can be made many time, some you can only make once and some are time limited on only appear if you have a certrain strength. So choose carefully!

Combat

With combat there are several factors to consider, in combat you first must hit your target based on your accuracy plus a random roll. If your accuracy plus the random roll is plus or equal to your opponents constution you hit and then your bullet power plus a random dice roll will determine the damage you inflict. The same is true when an enemy attacks you.

Time

All choices in the game incur a cost to time, you can rest once the day cylce reaches 0 at your apartment which restores your health by 50 points.

Morality / Alignment

The game doesn’t believe in an absoloutes with regards to morality, but certain actions will be viewed as good, nuetral or evil. Each time you do more good actions you will gain more of a good charecter, more evil - the opposite. This will define your alignment which will be shown at the end of the game, and also can open up different oppurtunities.

Stats

At the end of each playthough you can see an analysis of various stats based on how you played the game which you can screenshot and share.

The Backstory

You are  an occult and paranormal investigator and private detective. You have travelled to the fabled city of New Vienna in Austria. You came here with just 50 credits on your ATM card.

It is the year 3025 AD, and the world is rebuilding from the aftermath of the ‘the blight’ a super virus that swept the world in 2090. The Blight was a virus of unknown origin, which caused madness, paranoia and hallucinations to any afflicted, often leading them to a life of catatonia, and acts of mindless violence. A darkness swept over the world as one by one more were claimed by the maelstrom of violence it inflicted upon the countries of the world, almost bringing civilisation to the brink of collapse.

You were one of the lucky ones who made it through with your sanity mostly intact. The economy and society though was still close to tatters as governments the world over struggled to recover after the Vaccine B54 was discovered and helped the world to once more find at least a little hope….

You came to New Vienna in the hope of making your way in the new world and to use your deep knowledge of the arcane and investigative arts to make a living. You left Chicago on the promise of work from a mysterious benefactor, and entered your new apartment deep in the centre of New Vienna.

Your employer for the first job asked just to be referred to as Rasputin, a codename presumably and asked that you check in with him on your arrival on your computer terminal in your apartment.

Now you could do that, or you can first pursue your own investigations, should you wish. Choice is yours, Sunshine.