Top-down · Turn-based · Single player

Someone Else's War

An isekai RPG where the quests, the dungeons, the people and eventually your own abilities are written out of what you do — and then remembered by the people who were there.

Engine: Godot 4.7
Platform: Windows · macOS · Steam
Players: One
Companions: Up to 4

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Trailer

Trailer · 1:19 · every shot captured in the game

Screenshots

The Glitch Maw at night: the player with three companions following — Malachar Shard, Jorn Pike and The Dread Crimson Kraken — beside the entrance to The Root-Core Vault, with a Hollow Knight and a Gloom Spirit marked hostile nearby, three party portraits and a minimap. — Overworld · three companions, and the one in front was the boss of the vault behind them

Sera Ashford answering an offer of the next pouch of gold: she laughs, sharp and out of place in the cold vault, calls the player greedy, steps closer, and agrees — “Fine. I’ll travel with you, but don’t expect me to hold your hand.” — Dialogue · you type; the reply is written for what you actually said

A turn-based battle: the turn order across the top, the player, Sera Ashford and Durn Cleft-jaw facing a Hollow Knight and an Ash Hound, each foe’s next move named beside it — the hound winding up Cinder Breath at the whole party — while Sera calls out “Guard, now!”, and the hotbar with Talk marked free. — Combat · every foe’s next move shown, and talking costs no turn

In the Brine-Sump at night, with four companions in the party, Runnel Drowned flinches and stammers that he doesn’t know who sent the player. A Finesse check is logged as a Heroic success — you know what they hide: his left eye twitches faster when he lies, and it’s been fluttering since you arrived. — Checks · a Heroic Finesse read, and the liar’s tell it found

The Root-Core Vault, three of six chambers dealt with: the heart chamber, with The Dread Crimson Kraken marked hostile across the room from the party, and the vault’s generated description below. — Dungeon · six chambers written for one errand, and the thing at the heart of it

The Chronicle’s record of a conversation at the Vault: Durn Cleft-jaw tells the player he could come along, then his uncle Torvin Stonebrow cuts in — “You’ve barely stopped trembling and already you’re itching to run back into the fire?” — before the player asks Durn what he wants to do. — Conversation · the people around you talk to each other, not only to you

The abilities panel open on Glimpsed Weakness, a tier 1 strike: a sweeping strike that lays bare the cracks in an enemy’s form — the outsider’s ledger-sight finds the flaw and drives it home. About 286 to 297 damage to each foe, with a 60% chance to leave each Weakened for two turns. — Abilities · earned mid-run, and written around the gift you woke up with

The Chronicle’s What Was Said record: the player tells Torvin Stonebrow they got his nephew back, Torvin asks where he is and whether he’s hurt, a Finesse check is logged as a success — his left hand keeps drifting to his belt, where a hammer should hang — and Durn Cleft-jaw answers for himself. — Chronicle · every conversation kept, down to the checks rolled in it

The guild panel: Ranks C, D and E marked earned, the player still at Rank F, and the note the guild keeps on the membership — “Signed on at F. Everyone starts at the bottom; the guild master decides who rises.” — The guild · the record has earned C; only the guild master can raise you

The Ebon Spire of the Forgotten: the tower screen, its name and description above a ladder of fifty floors, with the tenth cleared. — The Spire · fifty fixed floors — the one part of the world that doesn’t improvise

The Inventory panel on Malachar Shard’s tab: a level 25 companion’s equipped gear, seven attributes, potions and materials, and a ticked Fights with you box. — Inventory · each companion’s own gear and stats, and whether they fight

Say the thing, not the option

Lie, threaten, over-promise, confess — you type it. The reply is written for what you actually said, and what you said is what the world then has to deal with.

You can walk into a fight you cannot win

Fights run on hand-written rules, not on the AI: turn order, initiative, damage and death follow the same rules every time. You can learn this game, and you can misjudge it.

Two kings, and neither of them is yours

A king pulled you into this world to win his war, and a Demon King waits on the other side of it. Both are new every run, and the one who summoned you is keeping a secret. Fight for either of them. Slay the Demon King or turn him to your side; beat the king who summoned you and he yields his crown, alive. Or make a peace both banners will sign. Each one ends the war differently, and the world carries on after it, changed by what you did. Factions keep count of what you have done for them and what you still owe.

Abilities nobody gave you

Later skills are written against how you have played and why you earned this one — then costed and balanced by the same rules every other number obeys. Yours, and only in this save.

It won’t remember you until you play it.

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