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 Tight, Focused Gameplay - You will not waste your time wandering huge empty worlds, jogging five minutes between encounters, or being forced to grind. Each game day you will explore the story, world, and personal relationships, fight rivals and creatures, and progress your characters how you see fit.

 Rich 3D Physics-driven Interactions - Slide down steep terrain, dodge arrows, block attacks, leap off ledges, knock enemies into walls, explode them. The possibilities are limitless. There are no artificial miss chances or random damage numbers - this makes tactical play in our game more fluid and realistic rather than being all about statistics and dice rolls.

 Elaborate Story Events- The day-to-day groove of the game gets shaken up by calendar events, as shown in the 'Cendant Heist' video below. These are the big encounters your characters have been training for, and they often feature intense, timed decisions to make.

Tactical Control - Pause the combat at any time to give orders to your party - you can instantly jump from character to character and directly control them, actively block attacks, and use your powers. You also have the option to zoom back into tactical mode and let the combat AI take over.

 Smart AI- Created with powerful behavior trees, our AI imbues your party with life as they flank, block, combo, and use their abilities intelligently even if you haven't given them direct orders.

Deep Progression - A job-based skill system means you can customize and optimize every member of your party to your hearts content.

 Want to make a sword & shield mage? A stealthy two-handed axe brute? A deadly bow sniper who can heal? A party full of archer-thaumaturges? Everstar lets you do all of that and more.

 Each character can 'kit swap' their weaponry, so changing from ranged to melee, from offense to healing, or from stealthy to loud - is only a button press away.

 For example, in the 'Cendant Heist' demo video below, Tessa has equipped skills from the Battler and Bowman jobs, Yona has skills from the Luminary and Battler jobs, and Opal has gone deep into the Scholar path to combine skills from the Understudy and Thaumaturgist job. Your own choices at this point could (and probably will) be quite different!

Everstar isn't just a bunch of ideas and pretty pictures - we've already spent many long hours and late nights building its characters, systems, and pipelines into real gameplay. It's already a living, breathing universe, ripe for adventure!

Here is the full "Cendant Heist" sequence that shows a set-piece story event which takes place early in Everstar. Keep in mind that what we are showing here is pre-pre-alpha art - and with your help the final product will look and feel even better!

                       Everstar - The Cendant Heist - Full Playthrough Video

 We've tried to create stretch goals that will not delay the game release - we don't want you to wait longer in case a ton of people are generously backing Everstar. For each of these features we should be able to bring on additional help to get them done on time.

 We are Psycho Sorted, a new independent studio comprised of games industry veterans. We love high-end games with a passion, but feel that the big business developers are losing their way. We believe that intelligent and beautiful people (like you!) just love great games, and we want to build them for you.

                          

In the Everstar proof-of-concept we were privileged to collaborate with a cast of top-tier voice actors. We have more amazing talent lined up for other roles too.  We are planning to use voice-over in all major scenes, but if we us reach our Fully Voiced stretch goal we will record voice-overs for ALL the dialogue in Everstar!

This is our dream: to make high-end, high-quality, original games independently! To bring players NEW and EXCITING games as often as we can. We believe there is room for high-end niche games and that a game needs to meet its fans expectations, not some corporate sales quota, to be considered a success.