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Exodus : Black Sun
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Synopsis:
Exodus: Black Sun is a satirical SciFi RTS that revives the magic of genre classics while innovating on its core conventions. You’ll wage a brutal resource war across a variety of game modes using a host of fresh mechanics that give you unparalleled control over your army’s tactics and play-style.
Game Mechanics:
-Infinite Unit Cap!
Unit caps! They’re frustrating, aren’t they? Always telling you that it’s impossible to build more units, forcing you to slowly accumulate an endless supply of worthless riches. Well, with the advent of Exodus, that’s a thing of the past! That’s right, there are no unit caps, not in this game – build as many troops as you want! Overwhelm your opponents with a ceaseless tide of steel and flesh! Your imagination and lust for power are limited only by the resources you manage to exploit!
-Change the way your army plays, with Mutators!
Before every mission or match, you are able to choose up to three Mutators. These are mods that buff – and sometimes also debuff – your army, thereby opening up new strategic possibilities that enable you to hone your army’s tactics. Each individual Mutator can be made stronger by completing its associated challenges, but be warned –a Mutator’s debuffs will grow stronger alongside its buffs!
Our intent is to live-balance these Mutators in order to prevent the emergence of a single, dominant meta, thus ensuring that the game stays fresh and maintains space for creativity.
-Two unique armies and campaigns at launch, with a third to be added for free!
Exodus: Black Sun will launch with two playable factions, with a third to be added for free shortly after release! Each faction has a distinct identity, aesthetic, and play-style derived from their individual philosophies and histories – they look different, feel different, and offer an experience that’s entirely unique from each other, and from anything that’s come before. With a roster of 20+ discrete units in each army you’ll have an unparalleled degree of strategic freedom and the ability to craft an army to suit both your preferred tactics and the needs of the situation.
If you’re looking for deep lore and a cinematic singleplayer experience, then you should know that all three of these factions have their own expansive campaigns that flesh out their lore and showcase the harsh, gripping realities of life in the grimdark ultrafuture!
-Variety is the spice of life – enjoy an array of game modes!
In addition to our expansive campaigns, we have PvE Challenge Mode, Casual PvP, and Ranked PvP! Engage your friends in competitive ultra-violence, unwind a compelling narrative, or try to survive against impossible odds! With numerous ways to play and a host of challenges to overcome, there’s plenty to keep you coming back to Exodus!
-Future-Proof Models and Textures
If you’ve taken a look at the models we’ve showcased here (and on our social media, which you should check out!), you’ve probably noticed that they are insanely detailed, right down to the smallest wire and vein. Our talented 3D artists are sparing no effort to create models that look amazing now and will continue to look amazing years down the line, thus ensuring that our game barely ages with the passage of time.
Setting:
-Experience the stark horrors of a strangely-familiar ultrafuture!
It is the Seventh Millennium, and humanity has constructed the ideal society. United under the aegis of HOPE, humanity has been forcibly consolidated into a monolith, a singular corporate entity concerned only with the width of its profit margins and the obeisance of its employees. Having abandoned the husked carcass of its home-world this company now roams the void of space, scouring the galaxy in a yawning pursuit for vulnerable resources and untapped economic opportunities.
HOPE’s campaign of relentless exploitation has now drawn them to the Eidolon system, home to an extant arm of the alien civilization known as BioLife. In ages long forgotten, these organic supremacists devoted themselves to the creation of a cohesive, planned society. To that end, they geared their culture toward the pursuit of mastery over their own genetic structure, digging through their flesh in a desperate search for the ability to tailor each individual’s form to their predetermined societal role. Millennia passed, and persistent effort saw BioLife attain that which they sought so fervently – their civilization had become a clockwork diorama, twirling lazily in an endless dance of stagnant perfection. That ostensible perfection begat arrogance, which in turn begat a sense of supremacy. Their ethos ossified, morphing into a rigid intolerance, an abject hatred of all that which fell outside the hive-mind’s venerated Central Plan.
Naturally, contact between the two civilizations could only result in total war. As H.O.P.E. pushes deeper into the Eidolon system BioLife mounts an increasingly desperate defense, hoping that their eugenic creativity will be enough to stave off the eroding forces of capitalist acquisition. As the conflict worsens, agents from both factions have begun to notice strange luminous entities lingering on the outskirts of active conflict zones. These entities have not responded to any attempts at communication and simply disappear when any effort is made to study them, only to reappear minutes later in a different, closer location.
-Some would say that a society is little more than an organizational bureaucracy legitimized by the threat of sanctioned violence, but that’s not quite the whole picture – a society, after all, features many kinds of violence! Read below to check out our factions and get sneak peek of the horrors that belie them!
-H.O.P.E.: These guys are the personification of the Capitalist meat-grinder! There’s nothing they love more than a financial transaction – the more predatory, the better! They’ve commodified every aspect of society and the interpersonal relationships which comprise it, effectively turning the whole affair into a trickle-up revenue generator! Now that’s innovation – those executives deserve a raise!
BioLife: What do you get when you combine the philosophy of maximalism with the pursuit of genetic perfection? BioLife! This hive-like race of organic purists have a genetically-engineered bioform for any situation. Who needs that inorganic nonsense machinery when you have complete mastery of the eugenic arts and a slavish devotion to the rigid, immutable, unquenchable hunger of the common good? Remember, the greatest good is to do what you’re told!
Road Map:
-Procedurally-Generated Maps, and the Ability to Make Your Own!
That’s correct! We’re harnessing the raw power of machine intelligence to deliver unto you spontaneously-generated maps with new content and unique terrain! Each and every match will be different – not even we can predict the geography of the war-torn hellscape you’ll be fighting to claim!
That’s not all, though! We’re currently tweaking this technology to create a map editor that will give you total freedom to design, alter, and refine custom maps while also allowing you to make full use of our procedural technology! You’ll be able to utilize it to create new terrain or to overlay textures and assets onto existing boundaries – you can even generate an entire map and then alter it to your heart’s content! The possibilities are boundless, and you’ll have all the tools to manifest them right at your fingertips!
-Adaptive Enemy AI
Play against an unfeeling machine that will learn your play-style and adapt to your tactics! Are you ready for the battle of neuron v. circuit pathway? Prepare for the inevitable robot wars of the future with our helpful simulation!
-Two Expansion Packs
Not one but two expansion packs, both adding three playable factions, three full-length campaigns, and a bevy of new maps! Each individual faction will have a spate never-before-seen mechanics that will radically shake up the gameplay formula and give you new and exciting ways to pluck the metaphorical eyes from the metaphorical skulls of your less-metaphorical enemies!
We can’t reveal too too much at this juncture, but our goal with these is to introduce a host of game-bending mechanics that will deeply alter the experience offered by the base content and push the boundaries of what an RTS can and should be.
With these Xpacs we’re aiming to blur genre lines, to fully meld RTS traditions with gameplay loops and mechanics from other kinds of games in order to deliver an experience that can’t be categorically defined.
In the end, Exodus: Black Sun will be home to myriad mechanics from myriad influences, each playing off the others in a way that is unique, inspired, and – most importantly – fun. Even if you don’t buy the Xpacs, their maps, armies, and mechanics will be free to use in multiplayer, so make sure you stick around to check them out!
-Multimedia Madness
When all is said and done, Exodus is going to be a whole lot more than a video game franchise. Our ultimate goal is to build the universe into a multimedia endeavor that spans video and tabletop games, written works, animated films, and even more; essentially, we’re committed to the task of constructing an expansive setting with a variety of self-contained stories rather than a singular narrative. That’s not to say that we’re producing this game in order to set up the next piece of media – it simply means that we love this universe and want to give it the breadth and depth it deserves.
We chose to develop an RTS first because we determined that the nature of the genre lends itself to a more comprehensive overview of the setting that we’re creating. Having three POV factions allows us to offer a variety of in-universe perspectives, thereby enabling a multi-pronged approached to world-building and lore-crafting that will ensure players gain a solid understanding of the setting and its intricacies.
Check Out Our Website and Social Media!
If you’re curious about the things you’ve seen and read here today, then be sure to stop by our website and our social media! We regularly post dev logs, art pieces, and lore drops that showcase the progress we’re making and give you deeper insight into the Exodus universe. Our website is also where we’re going to be previewing our other planned projects – we’ve already planned for another game, as well as a serialized web manga, a tabletop combat sim, and a tabletop RPG – so be sure to stop by every now and again!
Exodus: Black Sun is a satirical SciFi RTS that revives the magic of genre classics while innovating on its core conventions. You’ll wage a brutal resource war across a variety of game modes using a host of fresh mechanics that give you unparalleled control over your army’s tactics and play-style.
Game Mechanics:
-Infinite Unit Cap!
Unit caps! They’re frustrating, aren’t they? Always telling you that it’s impossible to build more units, forcing you to slowly accumulate an endless supply of worthless riches. Well, with the advent of Exodus, that’s a thing of the past! That’s right, there are no unit caps, not in this game – build as many troops as you want! Overwhelm your opponents with a ceaseless tide of steel and flesh! Your imagination and lust for power are limited only by the resources you manage to exploit!
-Change the way your army plays, with Mutators!
Before every mission or match, you are able to choose up to three Mutators. These are mods that buff – and sometimes also debuff – your army, thereby opening up new strategic possibilities that enable you to hone your army’s tactics. Each individual Mutator can be made stronger by completing its associated challenges, but be warned –a Mutator’s debuffs will grow stronger alongside its buffs!
Our intent is to live-balance these Mutators in order to prevent the emergence of a single, dominant meta, thus ensuring that the game stays fresh and maintains space for creativity.
-Two unique armies and campaigns at launch, with a third to be added for free!
Exodus: Black Sun will launch with two playable factions, with a third to be added for free shortly after release! Each faction has a distinct identity, aesthetic, and play-style derived from their individual philosophies and histories – they look different, feel different, and offer an experience that’s entirely unique from each other, and from anything that’s come before. With a roster of 20+ discrete units in each army you’ll have an unparalleled degree of strategic freedom and the ability to craft an army to suit both your preferred tactics and the needs of the situation.
If you’re looking for deep lore and a cinematic singleplayer experience, then you should know that all three of these factions have their own expansive campaigns that flesh out their lore and showcase the harsh, gripping realities of life in the grimdark ultrafuture!
-Variety is the spice of life – enjoy an array of game modes!
In addition to our expansive campaigns, we have PvE Challenge Mode, Casual PvP, and Ranked PvP! Engage your friends in competitive ultra-violence, unwind a compelling narrative, or try to survive against impossible odds! With numerous ways to play and a host of challenges to overcome, there’s plenty to keep you coming back to Exodus!
-Future-Proof Models and Textures
If you’ve taken a look at the models we’ve showcased here (and on our social media, which you should check out!), you’ve probably noticed that they are insanely detailed, right down to the smallest wire and vein. Our talented 3D artists are sparing no effort to create models that look amazing now and will continue to look amazing years down the line, thus ensuring that our game barely ages with the passage of time.
Setting:
-Experience the stark horrors of a strangely-familiar ultrafuture!
It is the Seventh Millennium, and humanity has constructed the ideal society. United under the aegis of HOPE, humanity has been forcibly consolidated into a monolith, a singular corporate entity concerned only with the width of its profit margins and the obeisance of its employees. Having abandoned the husked carcass of its home-world this company now roams the void of space, scouring the galaxy in a yawning pursuit for vulnerable resources and untapped economic opportunities.
HOPE’s campaign of relentless exploitation has now drawn them to the Eidolon system, home to an extant arm of the alien civilization known as BioLife. In ages long forgotten, these organic supremacists devoted themselves to the creation of a cohesive, planned society. To that end, they geared their culture toward the pursuit of mastery over their own genetic structure, digging through their flesh in a desperate search for the ability to tailor each individual’s form to their predetermined societal role. Millennia passed, and persistent effort saw BioLife attain that which they sought so fervently – their civilization had become a clockwork diorama, twirling lazily in an endless dance of stagnant perfection. That ostensible perfection begat arrogance, which in turn begat a sense of supremacy. Their ethos ossified, morphing into a rigid intolerance, an abject hatred of all that which fell outside the hive-mind’s venerated Central Plan.
Naturally, contact between the two civilizations could only result in total war. As H.O.P.E. pushes deeper into the Eidolon system BioLife mounts an increasingly desperate defense, hoping that their eugenic creativity will be enough to stave off the eroding forces of capitalist acquisition. As the conflict worsens, agents from both factions have begun to notice strange luminous entities lingering on the outskirts of active conflict zones. These entities have not responded to any attempts at communication and simply disappear when any effort is made to study them, only to reappear minutes later in a different, closer location.
-Some would say that a society is little more than an organizational bureaucracy legitimized by the threat of sanctioned violence, but that’s not quite the whole picture – a society, after all, features many kinds of violence! Read below to check out our factions and get sneak peek of the horrors that belie them!
-H.O.P.E.: These guys are the personification of the Capitalist meat-grinder! There’s nothing they love more than a financial transaction – the more predatory, the better! They’ve commodified every aspect of society and the interpersonal relationships which comprise it, effectively turning the whole affair into a trickle-up revenue generator! Now that’s innovation – those executives deserve a raise!
BioLife: What do you get when you combine the philosophy of maximalism with the pursuit of genetic perfection? BioLife! This hive-like race of organic purists have a genetically-engineered bioform for any situation. Who needs that inorganic nonsense machinery when you have complete mastery of the eugenic arts and a slavish devotion to the rigid, immutable, unquenchable hunger of the common good? Remember, the greatest good is to do what you’re told!
Road Map:
-Procedurally-Generated Maps, and the Ability to Make Your Own!
That’s correct! We’re harnessing the raw power of machine intelligence to deliver unto you spontaneously-generated maps with new content and unique terrain! Each and every match will be different – not even we can predict the geography of the war-torn hellscape you’ll be fighting to claim!
That’s not all, though! We’re currently tweaking this technology to create a map editor that will give you total freedom to design, alter, and refine custom maps while also allowing you to make full use of our procedural technology! You’ll be able to utilize it to create new terrain or to overlay textures and assets onto existing boundaries – you can even generate an entire map and then alter it to your heart’s content! The possibilities are boundless, and you’ll have all the tools to manifest them right at your fingertips!
-Adaptive Enemy AI
Play against an unfeeling machine that will learn your play-style and adapt to your tactics! Are you ready for the battle of neuron v. circuit pathway? Prepare for the inevitable robot wars of the future with our helpful simulation!
-Two Expansion Packs
Not one but two expansion packs, both adding three playable factions, three full-length campaigns, and a bevy of new maps! Each individual faction will have a spate never-before-seen mechanics that will radically shake up the gameplay formula and give you new and exciting ways to pluck the metaphorical eyes from the metaphorical skulls of your less-metaphorical enemies!
We can’t reveal too too much at this juncture, but our goal with these is to introduce a host of game-bending mechanics that will deeply alter the experience offered by the base content and push the boundaries of what an RTS can and should be.
With these Xpacs we’re aiming to blur genre lines, to fully meld RTS traditions with gameplay loops and mechanics from other kinds of games in order to deliver an experience that can’t be categorically defined.
In the end, Exodus: Black Sun will be home to myriad mechanics from myriad influences, each playing off the others in a way that is unique, inspired, and – most importantly – fun. Even if you don’t buy the Xpacs, their maps, armies, and mechanics will be free to use in multiplayer, so make sure you stick around to check them out!
-Multimedia Madness
When all is said and done, Exodus is going to be a whole lot more than a video game franchise. Our ultimate goal is to build the universe into a multimedia endeavor that spans video and tabletop games, written works, animated films, and even more; essentially, we’re committed to the task of constructing an expansive setting with a variety of self-contained stories rather than a singular narrative. That’s not to say that we’re producing this game in order to set up the next piece of media – it simply means that we love this universe and want to give it the breadth and depth it deserves.
We chose to develop an RTS first because we determined that the nature of the genre lends itself to a more comprehensive overview of the setting that we’re creating. Having three POV factions allows us to offer a variety of in-universe perspectives, thereby enabling a multi-pronged approached to world-building and lore-crafting that will ensure players gain a solid understanding of the setting and its intricacies.
Check Out Our Website and Social Media!
If you’re curious about the things you’ve seen and read here today, then be sure to stop by our website and our social media! We regularly post dev logs, art pieces, and lore drops that showcase the progress we’re making and give you deeper insight into the Exodus universe. Our website is also where we’re going to be previewing our other planned projects – we’ve already planned for another game, as well as a serialized web manga, a tabletop combat sim, and a tabletop RPG – so be sure to stop by every now and again!
Additional information
Provider
Exodus Games Inc.Last Updated on
10/20/2023
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FAQ
When was this game updated?
Exodus : Black Sun is updated at 2023-10-20.
Which studio developed this game?
The provider of Exodus : Black Sun is Exodus Games.
Can I play Exodus : Black Sun on Android/iOS?
No.
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