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Root Scourge
An open world crafting game where surface is occupied by a mutated plant species. Humanity has been exiled and is living under the surface for hundreds of years. You are one of the few professionals that can roam the surface. As a mercenary, you take on jobs and face the root scourge on surface.

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Features
Single-player
Family Sharing
Profile Features Limited 
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“We want the game to reach its full potential. To achieve this, we need time and player feedback.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“There are two answers for this:

1) Intended game design:
We have a clear game design plan. We want to complete all the mechanics and systems in the near future. We plan to make it in one year.

2) Extended game design:
But we have unclear game design plans too. We want to experiment with these unclear designs in the background. If they are as compatible as we envision, it can change the pace of the early access. New mechanics and systems can cause huge increases in gameplay possibilities, but also can extend the early access time window.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Early Access version's mechanics and systems are mostly limited.
Main reason is that the open world is limited to completed areas.

As the development progresses, we plan to lift the limitations update by update.

In the Full Version, we plan to complete the open world with all of its contents.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“First steps of the main mechanics and systems are in there:

- Vehicle named S.A.B.R.E that can climb almost all surfaces.
It has weapons that can be used in combat and some resource gathering.
Weapons have craftable upgrades.
Vehicle itself has craftable upgrades too that can increase its speed or climb capabilities etc.

- Limited open world map that has key locations:
Comm Towers, Logistics Points, and other Points of Interests.

- Gathering natural resources and Looting chests

- Enemies that you need to fight or flee.

- Some trading capabilities with distant city states. They can offer items that are rare or unavailable on your reach.

- Favors made to the city states increase relations with them individually.

- Favors made to anyone increases your reputation in every city state.

- Your reputation and relation level with each city state influence your trading and crafting capabilities.


More can be found in the "About this game" section.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Game will be priced differently during and after Early Access.
We plan to gradually raise the price as we ship new content and features.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Systems and mechanics can be expanded best with feedback and ideas from community and want to listen to them. We will be directly reviewing posts on steam community page of the game.”
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About This Game

Surface is occupied by a mutated plant species. Humans fought it for hundreds of years and lost the fight.

With humanity's search for an answer for survival, a new way of life has began.

Under the surface, city states that are safe from the roots.

Hundreds of years passes.

Countries are no more.

History is no more.

Human domination of the nature is no more.

Human technology has changed and adapted.

There is only one way to survive: Stay underground.

But humanity still has some needs from the surface. Automated systems are limited. Someone needs to go up. Someone needs to solve the problems. 

You are one of the few professionals that can roam the surface.

You have the equipment, knowledge, experience and the right vehicle for this job:

S.A.B.R.E (Specialized Armored Breaching Recon Expeditionary)

An old model military armored recon vehicle.

After it was outdated and left the military, it spent decades under the hands of mercenaries like you.

You are the late owner of it.

S.A.B.R.E can climb steepest surfaces (as long as its tracks are not being pushed too hard)

It has a industrial shredder attached in front of it so you can gather resources with it.

Normally it is a military personel transporter, but your S.A.B.R.E is not. The seats are thrown away to create space for weapon systems. You need them to combat the roots and other dangers on the surface.

S.A.B.R.E has a modified scanning device that is perfected by its previous users. It can detect resources, points of interests and secret stashes that would normally go unnoticed.

It can synchronize with the Comm Towers (CT), so you can access the Logistics Points (LP) of that area. You can use LP to craft upgrades for S.A.B.R.E and trade materials with the connected city states.

You can modify and upgrade all of these features to your liking and needs.

Gather resources, loot important high quality parts and craft upgrades.

Better equipment means better chances of survival against the Root Scourge on surface.

But be careful.

Because some things you do can awaken the undisturbed roots.

If the roots are disturbed, they will increase the UCIM (Upper Crust Irritation Metrics) threat levels on that area.

The UCIM threat level is the indicator of how much irritated the roots are on that area.

S.A.B.R.E has devices that can detect the UCIM threat levels.

Use it to navigate safely, and know when to run away.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10/11
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10/11
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
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