Angela Christine posted:

Yes, sort of. Fun fact: You can make the argument that Lovecraft's works and Conan the Barbarian were set in the same world at different time periods. http://conan.wikia.com/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos The Great Old Ones et al were old, so they were there in medieval times and ancient times, not just 'modern' New England.


On the other hand Revival isn't set on Earth, much less medieval Europe, it's just a setting that resembles medieval Europe. If it was Earth it wouldn't be medieval Earth, but post-apocalyptic future Earth, which has been knocked back to a medieval level of technology. Lovecraft's stories of horrible things stirring would be in the past. The Great Old Ones, the Outer Gods and the Old Gods rose and duked it out for a while, then withdrew, leaving a shattered world and a few survivors. The new era began about 300 years ago, I think.

In the current setting (unlike Lovecraft) everyone knows that the big bads are real. Most people credit the Old Gods with driving off the other 2 factions and saving humanity, so the Old Gods are worshiped openly (this includes six-titty antler crotch lady, she's the goddess of life and death). Some people secretly worship the horrible things in the other 2 factions, trying to wake up a Great Old One or draw the attention of an Outer God.



The shattered world gimmick basically lets them roll out the game world a bit at a time. They are starting with a temperate island that has a single small medieval city on it, some farmland, a small forest, and a small swamp. You can see it in the store page: https://www.revivalgame.com/store/housing It's basically a tech demo. Later they can add other islands and continents, each with potentially slightly different settings. All of them will be 300 years since the cataclysm ended, but different land masses may have reacted to it differently. Different gods may be prominent, different cultures, different climate, different crops, different races of humans, slightly different technology, etc. I believe they are planning on releasing another small island nearby first, so people have a place to use their boats (boats will soon be for sale in the cash shop). Then a larger continent with 3 cities and wilderness in between, so overland trade routes can be a thing.