Indie developer Eat Create Sleep today announced a new game-changing “Relaunch” update for its god sim game, Crest, launching for free on 13th December on Steam, the update addresses player feedback to vastly expand the game and refresh core mechanics.
Crest offers a unique take on the traditional god sim, where your word is gospel. Players control and guide their followers by issuing commandments written in an evolving pictographic language.
How the player’s commandments are interpreted and remembered is not set in stone. What you communicate and what experiences your followers have with the environment is the basis for their religion. Over time, commandments can develop different associations and completely change their meaning. After all, the followers still have free will, and will sometimes do what they think is best for them, regardless of what you had in mind. Will they love, respect or fear you?
About the “Relaunch” update:
Crest has been continually updated since it’s launch in March 2018. The new update is the biggest for the game yet.
The revamped association system now allows your followers to create associations between events, objects and ideas based on their lives. What your followers experience and learn to fear, love and respect will shape the individual tales told as the story of each unique civilisation unfolds. Other major features include a new progression system called “The Book of Learning” adding plenty of objectives and replayability to the game, and a completely reworked “Doctrine” system, alongside smaller changes like updated UI, new follower behaviors, re-worked city functionalities, updated visuals and more.
The update is vastly expanding the game experience for current players and offering an overhauled game experience for newcomers.
Game Key Features
- Create your own religion, nurture your followers and observe how they evolve, or die, as a result of your decisions – including the unintended consequences of your commands!
- Sandbox-style gameplay: Oversee a world where weather, vegetation, mineral deposits, drought and animal behavior will create surprises
- Weave your own stories through trial and error. The history of your people will be chronicled and presented to you at the end of your vigil using the in-game storybuilder.
- Progress by unlocking new words, increasing the complexity of your commandments
- Customize the difficulty of your games with various amounts of resources, animals, islands and overall island quality
- Built-in Twitch support: When you live-stream the game on Twitch, your viewers can join your cities and vote on commandments to help or disrupt your godly plans
