Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

EREBUS: The Northwest Passage is a survival and expedition management game set during the doomed 1845 Arctic expedition by Franklin to explore the Northwest Passage.

Take command of your ship and crew as you push deeper into the frozen Arctic in search of the legendary Northwest Passage. Create your own commander, manage limited supplies, assign officers to critical duties, survive brutal weather, and deal with increasingly dangerous events as the expedition becomes trapped far from civilization.

The Arctic is constantly changing. Calm seas can turn into violent snowstorms, thick fog can hide what lies ahead, and the ocean itself can freeze around your ship. As months and years pass, conditions become harsher and every decision becomes more important.

Crew members have their own appearances, abilities and conditions, and the consequences of your decisions can leave them injured, traumatized or dead.

Oh and there's cannibalism :)

Features

• Manage food, fuel, health, sanity and other vital resources

• Assign officers and crew to monthly tasks

• Survive dynamic changing Arctic weather, fog, snowfall and frozen seas

• Experience dangerous random events and difficult decisions

• Watch your crew suffer injuries, illness and death

• Navigate an increasingly hostile expedition as conditions deteriorate

• Atmospheric pixel-art presentation inspired by 19th-century Arctic exploration

• A survival experience inspired by the Franklin Expedition of 1845

• Survive mysterious monsters (?)

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Murder, monsters, death and cannibalism.