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• Incredibly replayable! Complete each adventure in 30-90 minutes. Play multiple times to learn more about the world and explore thousands of different procedurally randomized adventures.
  
• Dynamic! Non-player characters (both friends and enemies) are living, moving people for you to respond to and interact with, not just static encounters waiting for you to find them.
  
• Every game ends differently! The world changes between games, so your adventure will never be the same, even if you make the same choices each game. Enemies, NPCs, and treasures are all randomized, and each one has specialized interactions with the others. The same actions in one game may have different consequences in another.
  
• Accessible! Complete text-to-speech and audio description for blind and vision impaired players, plus configurable controls and keyboard and controller support. Also includes difficulty that can be adjusted during the game, separate volume sliders for ambient sound, music, sound effects, and master volume, windowed and fullscreen modes, dark and light modes, and other settings.
  
• Command line version! Play like it's 1980 with the command line version, no graphics required (use the "Command Line" launch option to access it). The command line version is compatible with screen readers and other command-line-compatible software such as auto-translators.
  
• You can't die! Failure doesn't mean death in Upheaval; there's always a way forward, even if it's not the way you wanted to go. If you get yourself into trouble, you'll just have to get out of it.
  
• Relaxed Mode! Turn off the in-game time limit and explore the world at your own pace and discover everything it has to offer. (Available in the full game only, not in the demo.)
  
• The Magician's Shrine! Use a set of immersive, in-universe cheats to adjust the game's difficulty however you like. Play the game your way. (Available in the full game only, not in the demo.)
  
• Lore! A rich history surrounds your little village, its secrets hidden in the beautiful and treacherous landscape around it. Discover how magic has affected the land in generations past. How will your knowledge of the past influence your decisions today?
  
• Treasure! Over 15 magical and mundane treasures and items for you to find and use, each of which can be used in multiple different ways.
  
• Fantasy! Goblins, bandits, spells, curses, undead spirits, faeries, visions, true love, and more!
  
• Choose from eight different starting quests to add variety to each run. All quests are available to you every game, no matter which starting quest you choose, but the starting quest you choose allows you to get a head start on one quest. Each game includes the same twelve big quests, each with multiple ways of completing them and different consequences for each strategy that depend on the situation the world is in when you do it.
  
• The full game will contain all the same content as the demo, but will allow you to play for an additional 15+ in-game days per adventure. It will also include an expanded ending sequence with the Magician as well as an epilogue so you can see how your choices will affect the world beyond the end of your adventure.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game uses terse language to describe violence, killing, and paranormal activity; nothing is shown. The player may have the option to kill in cold blood.