Autumn Sale is here along with the Steam Award Nominations!
Raining outside? Feeling lonely? Get Raiders Of The Lost Island at special price, and call your friends over! Don't like them on your couch? Try the online Remote Play Together feature!
Because, you know what's BETTER WITH FRIENDS? Getting all the TREASURES for yourself, while they work hard to build the BOAT for you!
See how far can you push them, before they break down and cry, or even throw you overboard.
Have the best of this autumn and don't forget to VOTE Raiders Of The Lost Island as a nominee for the "Best With Friends" category!
P.S. this golden thing would do great as a relic trophy in the hideout, don't you think?
Eastern European Games - Dev.Play Expo
On 3rd and 4th Noveber, Raiders Of The Lost Island is once again part at Dev.Play. Back in 2017, when it was just a demo, it won the "Game of the Show" and "Best Design" awards. Now, 3 years later when it's fully released, and we are back with a virtual booth, next to many other awesome games and friends.
To celebrate all the Eastern European games, a special Steam event was organized this week! So come on, check out all these fine games and then have some fun with your friends, raiding the lost islands once more!
Halloween story, somewhere on a lost island... The Zombie girl came too close and bit the Skeleton, who turned mad and unwrapped the Mummy naked. Pumpkin laughed so hard he cracked open and died. Twice! They all went back home and didn't talk to each other for a whole week. All this nonsense over a couple of gold coins!
Sound familiar? Are your friends like that? Feel like testing your friendship?
Why not invite them over and celebrate Halloween with this semi-cooperative party game, at a special discounted price: 30% off
Win alone, or die together!
Get ready for Halloween!
If you plan to invite your friends over or to play remote, make sure you get dressed accordingly! Raiders Of The Lost Island celebrates Halloween with a custom night time menu theme*. And of course, we have skeletons, zombies, mummies, witch hats, cats, and a haunted cemetery watched over by a huge pumpkin shooting lasers from its eyes! Not kidding!
And to make it EASY for everyone, we now have a DIFFICULTY OPTION set to easy by default. This will give you some extra time on your raids, because let's face it, people argue a lot when it comes to shiny treasures. Working on the boat? Yeah, like you do that! So make sure you put those extra 30-60 seconds to a good use!
This v1.04 update has a few more improvements and small fixes. So, get ready for Halloween!
* the custom theme will be active for a few days around Halloween.
Feature Reel - The Adventure
Ready for the real thing? Embark on a real adventure, go from island to island, loot them all, collect the relics, roll your luck, win it all at the end! That is if you survive, of course... One single mistake, and the whole thing ends up in tears.
Adventures come in all sizes. A small one has 5 islands. That's about 30 minutes, if you make it to the end. For the bravest of all, there is the epic adventure with 20 islands. All the lost islands in a row, including the special final ones. Surviving that is... epic.
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After each raid, go back to your hideout, score your loot, take some supplies, place your relics in your collection, make or break a team, try your luck, and deal with your frustrations in a civilized manner.
Before the last raid of an adventure, you score your relics. Keep a close eye on who has what, because these are quite expensive together. More about them in the future.
The final raid it's your last chance to get ahead. There's no boat building and the water goes up fast. If you make it off this final island too, the awards ceremony awaits and the after party, where you might feel generous to the less fortunate raiders, and toss a coin to them.
Feature Reel - Fighting
With all these treasures around, one must learn to defend what's theirs. What if it's in someone else's pockets? Take this class of RAIDJUTSU and get back in the game! Your friends will never know what hit them.
First, we have the efficient PUSH of death. Get behind your friends when they're close to a ledge, and push them into the waters to empty their pockets - button (A).
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Then, we have the classic TAKEDOWN. Grab your friends by holding (X) or (Y) button to take'em down and steal one of their treasures. Make sure to surprise them, because if they guess and hold the same attack button, they'll do a COUNTER-TAKEDOWN on you.
The advance LADDER TAKEDOWN is sometimes a rather desperate move. Drop down from a ladder and hold the (A) button while you pass by a friend who was climbing under you.
And if none of this kung-fu moves help, hold (B) button to charge your shotgun, aim well, and release!
But remember, in the end, friends or foes, you're all in the same boat!
Game update v1.02 (small fixes)
v1.02 is here with a couple of fixes: - the fantastic quality post processes (SSAO and Bloom) were not applied by default - forced single instance of the game and config load/save guarded trying to avoid a rare share violation on the config file - the Remote Play Together page was crashing if the user had no friends (fixed in v1.01)
Please notify me of any tech (especially crashes) you might encounter and be ready with the log file.
Feature Reel - Surviving
Lost islands - easy to get on, not so easy to get off.
As all raiders know by know, these islands are cursed to sink in about 4 minutes, so take whatever you can, but make sure someone builds the boat!
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To finish the boat you need to collect and drop 10 resource bags next to it's location. This will not make you win, but it will keep you floating. So, the best strategy is to convince other players to work hard for the cause. In fact, with all those treasures in their pockets, this is what they should do, right?
However, your building efforts won't go unnoticed. At the end of an adventure, the player who contributed the most will be awarded with a builder badge. Poor, but proud!
By the end, before the final wave goes all the way up, at least one player must be safe in the boat. If not, well... it's game over! Nobody wins, you don't even know who was ahead.
As they say, Win Alone Or Die Together!
Feature Reel - Basic Looting
[previewyoutube="4qRlGxhP7n4;full"] Basic looting - what all raiders of lost islands learn even since they start walking on two feet.
Collecting treasures is the main goal of the game. Get more than your team mates and you win at the end. Only you!
Keep in mind the scores:
silver $1
gold $3
gems $5
diamonds $10
Watch the others closely as they always lie about what's in their pockets. Unless they drown (with or without help) and drop them all down. That is when you need to be close to step in, to casually collect.
Finders keepers, right?
Raiders Of The Lost Island - FULLY RELEASED NOW
Ahoy, raiders!
Our game is NOW fully released on Steam!
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After more than 3 years at sea, now is the time for the most famous adventure! Call your friends, grab your best gear and get aboard. We're sailing for some lost islands, full of treasures, relics, glory, but also deadly perils.
Will your team stick together? Will your friendship be true in front of so many temptations? Only one way to find out: BUY THE GAME AT LAUNCH and receive our in-game EXCLUSIVE REWARD: "the message in a rum bottle" relic (wonder what it says?)
And don't forget, we're having the online launch party, streaming live on Steam Broadcasts, today from 19:00 UTC+3. We're gonna play live, both local and online with friends, and we'd love to have you joining. The virtual grog is on the house!
But, before embarking on this amazing adventure, let's have a quick look back, to where it all started! The game came to life in 2017 at Global Game Jam, and its unique semi-cooperative concept proved to be something worth fighting for.
Confirmation received when the game won 2 out of 3 prizes at Dev Play 2017, the games dev conference for Eastern Europe: "Best game of the show" and "Best design".
We continued the work and presented the game at many expos and conferences like London Casual Connect 2018 (Indie Prize finalist), East European Comic Con 2019, and last year Cologne Gamescom 2019 when we entered the Early Access on Steam.
Today, after one year of early access, the game is fully released on Steam, and we're ready to present you all the new features, islands, the whole experience as we initially designed it. Here are a few of the flag features we've included:
- 20 islands in total and 4 adventure sizes to embark on if you're serious about it - 4 local players with full controller support as well as sharing keyboard - fighting moves: push, takedowns, counter-takedowns, and lots of shooting - integrated support for Steam Remote Play, to invite your friends and play online - lots of new treasures: beside the coins and diamonds, there are gems to dig for and other buried surprises - expensive and special new relics to collect on your adventures, and score ahead of your friends at the end - lucky tickets and a whole wheel of fortune. Don't feel lucky enough? Find the daruma relic and your life will change. - get the birds eggs, they contain treasures and if you're lucky, you may get a rare surprise out of them - secret relics hidden and hard to find, but definitely worth having - leaderboards to brag about your score online, especially when you're alone and do your best - better tutorial and guide book with tips and all the advice a beginner raider needs - emotes to express what you can't say - cool and relaxing music, and exciting drums when things get tough at the final wave - volcanoes, falling rifts, scary pumpkins, bridges, elevators, rolling boulders, and many more features for you to enjoy during your raids!
This being said, our work is not over yet, as we plan for more surprises, updates, support for consoles and other exciting events.
So, if you're ready to get aboard, BUY the game, and tell us your story! Be warned tough, things may get very competitive after a while, as no one wants to do the hard work and just help someone else win!
Remember WIN ALONE, OR DIE TOGETHER!
Ready to raid? Welcome aboard! Sincerely, the Last Tales team
