​After a 100 year war between humans and dragons, the humans that were left were separated into a city, governed by a Dragon. All written knowledge has been collected in the last library, guarded by the dragon. With no human viewing them for almost 1000 years, civilisation has lost the ability to read and write. The Dragon will grant you knowledge from his hoard of books, should you complete a task for him and you prove your intentions are honorable.
You play as a young orphaned boy who wants to learn magic, when you go to the dragon however, he tells you that his magic books have been stolen by thieves and in order to learn the magic for yourself you must hunt them down.​
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Can you find your way through the maze of the city and hunt down the thieves? Or will you be forgotten like the language you seek to learn?
Story & Overview
Details
Genre: Third Person, Fantasy, Action, Rougelite​​
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Game Engine: Unreal Engine 5.5
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Planned Release Platforms:
Initial Release: PC
Subsequent: XBOX Series +, Playstation 5, Nintendo Switch & Steam Deck
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ESRB Rating: Unrated - anticipated rating PG equivalent (Parental Guidance).
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Features
Core Game Features
Magic- Set in a high fantasy city full of magic, use spells and weapons to defeat your opponents as you hunt the thieves through the city. Unleash explosions, teleport, dash, and go invisible, to take out your enemies one by one.
Rougelite - Travel through randomised alleyways and city squares as you hunt down the thieves through the city streets. Use your wits to find and kill the thieves and take back the magic for yourself.
Dragons - Need I say more?
Various Playstyles/ Emergent Gameplay - Mix and match active and passive abilities to create a play-style that suits you. Play offensively, defensively, or as fast as you can. Take them out before they even know what hit them or pick them off one by one as they search in confusion. Find your style and hunt them all down.
Other Details
In The Last Library you must hunt down the thieves who have stolen books of magic from the dragon and bring them back. As you hunt down these books you have the choice of a mixture of weapons and abilities granted by these books. You will need to fight your way through the city to the faction boss and steal the books back. Get the book safely back to the dragon to unlock more abilities and become stronger!
Unique Selling Points
Spells and Abilities
Emergent gameplay
Players will be able to unlock and use a various array of spells, abilities, and weapons that change how they play the game. Allowing them to customize their playstyle to something they are comfortable with.
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Choose an Ultimate. Ultimate's are strong, powerful spells that greatly change how the game is played.
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Choose a Secondary ability. Secondary abilities are smaller, cheaper spells that allow the player to minorly change how the game is played.
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Choose a Weapon. Weapons will change how the players interact with the enemies, be it with the default slingshot, a dagger, or a range of other weapons that can be unlocked later in the game.
Evolving Factions
Enemy factions will evolve as the game progresses, fighting each other for dominance over the city. As a faction gains more territory, they will also become more of a danger to the player.
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8 Different factions. There will be 8 unique factions that have their own territories, motives, and strengths.
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8 Different Faction leaders. Each faction leader has their own unique spells. Each Faction leader is the final boss of each faction. Each faction has 1 final boss and 2-5 mini/ mid bosses.
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Faction Fights. If one faction enters the territory of another faction, they will fight with each other until one of them lose.
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Player death in different faction territory. If the player dies with a magic book, in a different faction, the faction leader will collect that spell book and become stronger, allowing them to take over the faction the player took the book from in the first place (If player is yet to unlock book at the Library).
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Faction dominance. If a faction does get powerful enough, they can take control of the entire city, becoming a formidable opponent to the player, with access to the 8 different spell books in their possession.
Environmental Narrative
The last library, whilst being a roguelite, is a story, set in a world where the greed of humans has caused war, and collapse, and has resulted in the ancient dragons, taking it upon themselves to regulate all the human factions.
As an orphan, your character does not fit in with any of the corrupted factions, and instead learns as the dragons do. As he completes tasks for the dragon in the library, he will learn more about the city, the magic, the people, and the history.
We plan on greatly expanding the lore of the world, using this to influence certain creative decisions. such as the future factions and how they interact with the player and each other, or how they look and act.
Progress
The Last Library: The Pages of Karthalas is early in development.
Everything we share is subject to change.
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