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Lead a convoy across procedurally generated wastelands, manage supplies, and build two decks for tactical, positional card battles.
Released 19 Jul 2019
Lead a Refugee Convoy
Position Followers in Battles
Manage Two Card Decks
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Developed by Sharkbomb Studios · Published by No More Robots
On the planet Soma, a technopath leads a convoy of outcasts and refugees through a post-apocalyptic wasteland toward the Crypt, a place said to hold working technology and safety.
Choose routes across generated maps and spend supplies such as food and hope to keep the convoy moving. Explore encounters, trade, find resources, recruit followers, and acquire equipment while making decisions that affect your group.
In turn-based battles, deploy follower cards onto a tactical field and play leader action cards to change the fight. Manage separate decks for followers and actions, position units to attack and protect one another, and adapt as followers are wounded or lost. Leveling grants access to stronger action cards, and further playthroughs unlock additional content.
Players who enjoy Nowhere Prophet often praise its tactical battles, consequential choices, and distinctive system of managing followers as both people and cards. Reviews also frequently appreciate the post-apocalyptic setting, art, music, and atmospheric travel events. Some players find the difficult, unpredictable runs engaging, while others feel that the same difficulty and randomness make progress frustrating.
Build a loyal band of followers and survive the journey across a broken world. Barely.
Take on the role of a powerful leader and mystic. Empowered with the gifts of technopathy, the ability to sense and affect electrical currents.
You are the last hope to a band of outcastes and refugees. Lead them across the randomly generated wastelands. Pick fights with greedy slavers and crazy machines using the turn-based card combat. Can you survive long enough to reach the mysterious Crypt?
Card-based tactical combat system
New procedurally generated maps each game
Find loot and recruit followers to build your deck
Unlock new content across multiple playthroughs
More than 300 cards for you to discover
Indian infused electronica soundtrack
Nowhere Prophet is a single player card game with procedurally generated maps, a high difficulty and permadeath. At it's heart are two distinct parts of gameplay: Travel and combat.
TRAVEL
During travel you navigate across a procedurally generated map. Make sure your convoy has enough resources to travel as you pick your route. On your journey you will encounter strange places and even stranger people. You will be thrust into situations that put the fate of your followers in your hands.
If you're lucky enough to gain some rewards, maybe for helping someone - or robbing them, then you can invest those to improve your decks. Recruit more followers to have more and different units to put into battle. Equip your prophet or level up and learn new skills to have access to stronger action cards in combat.
COMBAT
You will have to overcome some enemies to keep your convoy and resources together. And sometimes you may even want to pick a fight for righteousness or just for loot. Once in battle the game changes to the turn-based card game mode.
Play convoy cards to put your followers onto the field and position them so you can overcome your enemy. Or play action cards to dramatically change the battlefield. But be careful: If you're wounded you will have to find a safe place to heal. And if one of your followers takes too many wounds, they are lost forever.
Nowhere Prophet is set on a far off planet called Soma. Your story begins many years after the Crash, a complete technological collapse. Civilization has broken down and the lack of resources made everyone turn either bandit or madman.
In this world inspired by Indian culture you lead a convoy of outcastes. These desperate men and woman following your vision of a better future. Under your guidance they travel with you through the wastelands. Your goal is the Crypt, a mystical place that promises untainted technology and safety.
If you can survive long enough to find it.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 27 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 73/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
