Infos zum Spiel

Journey from town to town along a beautiful pixel art coastline, building your skills as a traditional Australian swagman along the way. Fish, cook, and bushcraft to survive, collect additional skills and gear from the locals in the towns you visit, and enjoy the serenity of a simpler life.

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Feature Overview (partially completed and planned)

• Procedurally generated terrain and ocean

• Dynamic and realistic ocean tides

• Realistic fire system

• Immersive weather with survival consequences

• Authentic ambient sounds and other audio captured in the Australian bush (more to come!)

• Fishing, cooking, shelter building, and other survival mechanics (partial)

• Skill levelling and unlocks (partial)

• Gear unlocks (partial)

• Towns (in progress)

Play the demo!

Once Upon a Swagman still has a ways to go, but there is more than enough in the demo now to give a taste of what the final game will look like. Most of the remaining work is filling out the world more with content, new skills, more towns, more rewards, and so on.