Three Against the Odds

"In each cycle of crisis, three heroes shall arise from our people to meet the challenge...always there are three." --- The Wizened One

Yet another magic-wielding jerk from another dimension has spoiled an otherwise reasonable existence and banished Frogkind, forcing them to roam the world of Primeva, hunted.

You grew up in this crucible and are now ready to lead your people to conquer your old nemesis.

Travel the world in this non-traditional roguelike, building up your heroes and settlement as you face wave after wave of enemies until you are ready to return to your homeland and forcibly evict the evil one for good and all.

Good Overview by @Tran Plays:

A video was done by TranPlays that does a good job of giving a preliminary overview of the game.

Roguelike or Roguelite?

• Death of a hero is not the end.  Inspired by the death and deeds of past heroes, two more heroes will rise to follow the first
• If your settlement is destroyed, the game ends
• Three separate missions with varying difficulty due to starting conditions
  • The first mission has three variations
• Knowledge of magical pattern combos carry over after failed runs

Build Your Character and Your Species

• Remain a typical frog or evolve into 3 additional amphibious species with differing strengths and weaknesses
• Choose skills from 3 schools or become a knave and choose one skill from each school
• 23 Separate Powers
• Buy, find or craft over 100 unique items
• Boost your character with the power of gemstones or cash them in for money or magical powers
• Uncover the secrets of the world of Primeva and learn what seeks to destroy it

Defend and Build Your Settlement

• Protect your settlement with towers, walls and allied forces
• Light resource management -- stock up on food before you journey to harsh climates or face the winter
• Manage workers who gather food, stone, gold and wood
• Hire additional workers and mercenaries
• Manage the production of weapons and potions and keep your trade route in tact

Monsters and Mayhem

• Fight hundreds of different types of monsters spawned by the bordering terrain
• Risk/Reward--Decide whether to anger additional enemies by attacking Crypts, Snake-Pits, Dungeons or Thieves Dens
• Face the dreaded behemoths who ignore you and attack your settlement instead
• Learn the lore of distinct tribes of enemies who inhabit different parts of Primeva
• From the usual fare to the bizarre - fight shadow spiders, the undead, minotaurs, dragons as well as chicken-dragons and disgruntled squirrels
• Try to avoid the many other perils of the world from fire, lava, clouds of hot steam and poison to hallucination inducing gases and parasites 

Take a Break and Do Some Fishing

• Gather or purchase bait and lures and cast a line
• Catch panfish, trophy fish or discover allies or monsters below the waves
• Come on, you have time to pull that bass out of the water before the Ethereal Eel bites your head off!

Demo

The demo contains the first full mission however you will eventually meet the evil and very greedy Demo Devil who will devour your settlement long before you can complete the mission.

Your saved games for the demo should be visible when you run the full game.

Solo Dev 

This is a full game and can be played through from start to finish.  While a significant amount of testing has been undertaken, there is no test-team and this game is essentially a one-person effort.  It is not known with  precision how stable or balanced the game is.  You can help by enabling the "Allow Sending Crash Dumps to Developer" option within the game which is disabled by default.  Only the crash dump and the outside IP sending the data is sent.   

I have also set up a repository to track player feedback at https://github.com/Flippworks/3AO_Defects_Enhancements/wiki should you wish to note a bug or make a suggestion.

Game Requirements

The game is best played on 1920x1080.  

At common lower resolutions you can choose if the game stretches to fit your resolution (with some distortion) or play in a window-like mode.  

At uncommon lower resolutions the graphics may appear to be distorted.

The base game requires <500MB of hard drive space including saved games.

Devlogs / Release Notes

Release 1.0.0.44

Release 1.0.0.43 - Minor Fix on Book of Reckoning Not Killing Abyss Swarms

Release 1.0.0.42

Release 1.0.0.41

Release 1.0.0.40 - Minor Fix on Loading Camp Tile Resources

Release 1.0.0.39

Release 1.0.0.38

Release 1.0.0.37

Release 1.0.0.36

Release 1.0.0.35

Release 1.0.0.34