Factsheet
Developer:
Lost Goblin
Based in Auckland, New Zealand
Release date:
2017
Platforms:
PC
Website:
goblinsofelderstone.com
Regular Price:
| USD | $19.99 - $29.99 |
Description
Goblins of Elderstone is a sandbox tribe management city building game with some light RPG and strategy elements filled with adorable chaotic goblins that will kill each other and burn down the village if they don't like how you rule them!
History
Lost Goblin started working on the initial design and ideas for Goblins of Elderstone since 2014. In 2015 Vaughan went to live oversees on savings in order to work full time on developing the prototype for the game in order to find funding. When Gustav secured some funding in late 2015, the project went into full production and added a few more goblins to the project. They were running up in the Kiwi Game Starter in Sepetmber 2016. The game is now on Kickstarter to secure more funding to bring the game to alpha release before going to Steam Early Access in 2017. They will be at PAX Australia in the pavilion at stand 35 in November showcasing the game and generating support for the final week of their Kickstarter campaign.
Features
- Free form city building - Not grid based city building. Buildings connect to each other with pathways and bridges to create great looking goblin style villages.
- Large resource and crafting tree - Over 30 different resources that need to be gathered and crafted.
- Clan, world and divine politics - Create your unique goblin tribe and it's clans then see the tribe grow when new clans form. Later protect clans from murdering each other and try prevent them from killing the King or burning down the entire village.
- War, Trade or Faith - Chose to play as either a warlord conquering the world, an industrious trader that rules the world through wealth or as a powerful avatar to the gods or a combination of all.
- Scout, Raid, Trade or Pilgrimage - Scout other regions, Raid NPC locations or dungeons, Trade with other cities or send Spirit Treks to holy sites to gain favor with your gods.
- RPG Story Moments - Generated text based story moments with meaningful consequences. Deal with traveling strangers, evil Overlords, cunning Dragons or benevolent gods.
- Defend your tribe - Defend the tribe from roaming worgs and monsters or Adventuring Parties. Fight off enemy raid parties.
Videos
Our First Teaser Trailer YouTube
Short Gameplay video YouTube
Gameplay video of village building YouTube
Images
Logo & Icon
Awards & Recognition
- "Kiwi Game Starter 2016 - Runner up" New Zealand, 8 September, 2016
- "Project We Love and New and Noteworthy" Staff Pick, Kickstarter
Selected Articles
- "...this looks amazing and made in NZ! I can’t wait for this game to release. I’m a huge fan of the art style and have always had a soft spot for goblins..."
- Bradley, The Gamespad - "Goblins of Elderstone looks absolutely fantastic. Cute characters, vibrant, low-poly art style, packed with features..."
- Steve Harris, Orange Bison
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Additional Links
Hyperduck Soundworks
Our incredible audio team .
About Lost Goblin
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We are a very small indie studio based in New Zealand. Gustav Seymore and Vaughan Sanders founded the studio in 2014 with the dream of making small, high quality, independent games. We have nearly 20 years of game industry experience between us. We really like goblins :D
More information
More information on Lost Goblin, our logo & relevant media are available here.
Goblins of Elderstone Credits
Gustav Seymore
Creative Chief
Vaughan Sanders
Code Goblin
Roy Lye
Engineer Goblin
Manish Kapoor
Coder Goblin
Moritz Schlitter
Art Goblin
Edwin McRae
Story Goblin
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