9 /10 1 Votes
Developer(s) Lostwood Games Initial release date 10 August 2013 | 9/10 Steam Publisher(s) Lostwood Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Adventure game, Visual novel Similar Visual novel games, Other games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official leviathan the last day of the decade trailer
Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade is an episodic adventure game developed and published by Russian game studio Lostwood Games for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android platforms. The game includes 5 episodes, and as of January 2016, 4 episodes have been released in German, while all episodes are available both in Russian and English.
Contents
- Official leviathan the last day of the decade trailer
- Leviathan the last day of the decade official game soundtrack track1 opening
- Gameplay
- Plot
- Development and release
- Sequel
- References
Leviathan the last day of the decade official game soundtrack track1 opening
Gameplay
The player reads through the story and makes decisions at certain points. The player has a variety of actions they can take during game play; these actions include befriending characters, collecting items, and traveling to different places. The player can buy items to unlock new options. Solving puzzles will progress the player through the story line. The player decides to take good or evil actions. Those actions will influence game play and lead to different endings.
Plot
The setting of Leviathan takes place in a dark fantasy world mixed with cyberpunk and alien technologies. The country is ravaged by a disease called Decade, which is caused by the Plague King. The "Decade" afflicts the land at irregular intervals, and lasts for 10 years. Oliver Vertran, the protagonist and main character, was a young boy when the Decade began. When his mother is murdered, he becomes the adopted son of her murderer. Oliver and his friends Kael and Darina, with the help of a Vargoille called Edna, seek to punish a guardian for killing his mother.
Development and release
Lostwood Games started to develop the game in 2012. Andrey Kniazev, the leader of the Russian team that created the game, spent $150,000 to develop Leviathan. Due to the themes of homosexuality and the current state of LGBT rights in Russia, the team initially had a hard time finding a publisher. However, they did find a publisher for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita versions, but they lacked the money to make a port. The game features an opening song, composed by Gleb Kolyadin and Mikhail Kotov, and performed by Nikita Valamin and Maryana Semkina. The original Russian game has been translated into English and German. The German translations of the first two episodes by Marcel Weyers were released in August 2013. In May 2014, they launched a crowdfunding project on Indiegogo to fund the final episode. Funding failed with the game only receiving $195 of the $49,500 goal. Nonetheless, the still want to create the last episode and finish the translations for episode 4 and 5. The game was released on Steam on November 11, 2014. In November 2015, they launched another crowdfunding project on Indiegogo with a goal of $2,000 in order to finish the English translation of the last episode. Funding failed again with the game only receiving $429.
Sequel
In October 2015, the developers announced Leviathan: The Cargo, which continues the story set in the world of Leviathan. The visual novel game features characters from Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade and new ones. The game is set to be released in 2016.