Dieselpunk RPG Olympus 2249 Opens Steam Page For Early Access
A Fallout 2 mod team is now selling its own game on Steam, and the karma-driven quest branching plus a planned early access run are the parts that decide whether it lands beyond the mod audience.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Dieselship Studio has opened a Steam store page for Olympus 2249, a top-down single-player RPG set in post-nuclear America. The team previously released the Fallout 2 mod Olympus 2207, and the new game sits in the same world 42 years later as a standalone story. Players pick from five karma types that change quests; combat is turn-based with stamina costs, positioning-based hit rates, and body-part targeting.
Olympus 2249 puts its karma choice up front: five types run from moralist to villain, and the quest content shifts depending on which one the player carries. Karma can also change as the story moves, so the branching is not locked at the start.
Combat is turn-based and spends stamina to attack. Positioning affects hit rates, and attacks can target specific body parts. The early access build is planned to run up to about two years and cover roughly one quarter of the story, with the full version set to add locations, factions, quests, characters, and items. It is in development for PC via Steam.
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