The interactive fiction RPG Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind has been released:

Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

Life between myths. Lead your clan into legend or obscurity. Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind is a storybook strategy game, immersing you in a land of old gods and magic.

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Hundreds of small encounters build into an epic, multi-generational tale of survival and inter-clan alliances. Six Ages is the spiritual successor to acclaimed King of Dragon Pass, taking place thousands of years earlier in the same shared world of Glorantha. Part role-playing, part resource management, you'll always be making decisions with long-term consequences, for you and your clan.

Features:

• Design your own clan, visit the gods, become respected, raid your neighbors' cows
• Over 400 interactive story scenes, with deep simulation systems driving their appearance and outcomes
• Multiple difficulty levels, and the option for Iron Willed players to limit reloading
• Gorgeous hand-painted high-resolution illustrations
• Same world as King of Dragon Pass, but a new clan: the Riders, with their own myths, and 4x more world to explore
• Discover, appease, and make deals with spirits in your territory

Glorantha is a highly detailed Bronze Age world, similar in many ways to our own. But it exists in a magical universe where the laws of physics are subordinate to the whims of the gods and spirits. To understand Glorantha, leave our mundane world and enter the world of myth. The Sun is a living god, not a nearby star. Countless gods exist, some even more powerful than the Sun, and all have the power to directly affect humanity.

In Six Ages, you play specifically as a Riders clan, who revere various gods in their particular mythology, including Gamari the Horse Mother, and your culture hero, Hyalor... but you would be foolish to forget Raven the Trickster. He has not forgotten you.

Glorantha is also the setting of other rich narrative games/experiences, including King of Dragon Pass, HeroQuest, RuneQuest, God Wars, and others.

The successor of King Of Dragon Pass called Six Ages: Ride like the Wind will be released on October 17:

Six Ages on PC - Release Date Trailer

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Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind is a storybook strategy game, immersing you in a land of old gods and magic. Hundreds of small encounters build into an epic, multi-generational tale of survival and inter-clan alliances.

Developed by A Sharp and published by Kitfox Games.

Gamasutra took a look at Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind and explored how it is weaving mythology into a game.

An instrumental part of both games is performing prayers and rituals that are dedicated to its pantheon of gods. These are presented to the player as necessary day-to-day activities, and a big part of the game's challenge comes in understanding who the gods are, and what they stand for and like. This idea is particularly sharply drawn in King of Dragon Pass’ heroquests, during which a player must choose a character from their clan to walk the path of the gods, reenacting myths in order to gain their associated gods’ blessings or special magical items.

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Six Ages - the spiritual successor to King of Dragon Pass - will be released in 2018:

Six Ages

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Six Ages is the spiritual successor to King of Dragon Pass. It will be a storytelling game set in the magical world of Glorantha, retaining King of Dragon Pass’s distinctive blend of roleplaying, mythology, resource management, and decisions with long-term consequences.

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