Traveller, what drives you do descend to these deep places?
Below is the new game from Failbetter.
The game is not released yet, but you can play a limited prototype now, which will show you the sort of game we’re building. We’re thrilled about the design and the fiction to go with it. We think Below could be something really special, and we hope you will too.
You can get to the prototype through the Kickstarter page here
About Below
Below is a game of narrative dungeon-delving. It combines the old-school delights of exploration, fighting monsters and looting treasure with a contemporary approach to storytelling. In Below your life in the world above is as important as your adventures underneath it. Your memories may sustain you, down in the dark, but your past will become entangled with your adventures.
The core of Below gameplay is the delve deep below the earth. The Below deck contains the obstacles and encounters along your path. Your memories from the Above deck sustain you on your journey.
For Below, we’re drawing from the sources that inspired the grand tradition of dungeons in gaming. The grim halls of Moria. Beowulf’s grisly battle in Grendel’s lair. Theseus daring the Minotaur in the Labyrinth at Knossos. Le Guin’s Tombs of Atuan.
Kickstarter
We need your help to build Below. After the riotous success of the Silver Tree Kickstarter project, we’re doing it again! Below is now up on Kickstarter, and we’re all very excited about it. It will be our first game on Kickstarter that’s separate from Fallen London, and we hope you’ll all be supporting it. Of course, we’ve got a pile of particularly delicious goodies to offer our backers. And we’d particularly love it if you’d help us get the word out. We think a lot of people will enjoy Below.
If you aren’t familiar with Kickstarter, it’s a way to crowd-fund creative endeavours. You pledge money to a project, and if the Kickstarter reaches its funding goal your pledge money is taken, the project goes ahead, and you receive rewards determined by the amount you pledged. If it doesn’t reach its target, you don’t lose the money you pledged.
Here’s the link to the Below Kickstarter project: