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Would anyone be interested in a jamjar-ish survival horror game inspired by SMT: Strange Journey? Basically, it involves demon summoning and negotiation, eldritch horrors, and delving deep into a multidimensional maze called the Schwarzwelt. Players can have their characters explore and go deeper into said maze, or stay in a sort of “home base”. Events will probably consist of fighting demons or unraveling mysteries.

It’ll be very player-driven and plot-intensive, allow AUs and OCs, and probably be a comm-based game, but it’s still in the stages of being worked out so all’s not set in stone. Idk, I just thought it was interesting, but probably need to bounce some ideas off of people more.

What do you guys think? Anyone interested?

I liked Strange Journey, but you're really going to have to set this apart from every other survival horror jamjar with demons and monsters and a mysterious setting.

SMT games are fucking awesome, but one of the draws, plot-wise, is the impact your character eventually has upon the future of all existence and dicking with alignments and all that good stuff.

If you take the individual significance away - in which one person's decisions can change everything - and try to broaden the scope I think you'll have to seriously haul ass to make up for it. I definitely think an intense, plot driven game is still possible, but I also think it'll be tough because you as a mod would have to do a ton and the Schwarzwelt is incredibly limiting in terms of environments for players to come up with their own shit. I mean, unlike 90% of the other games out there, unless you change things if someone's character goes outside without a Demonica on they will die.

And sure, you could argue that if you go into space without a spacesuit on you will die, but Ataraxion's Tranquility is huge, and the tower in Animus is supposed to be a self-contained environment to max out the horror aspects.

Point being, it's doable, and it could be pretty awesome, but basing it off of Strange Journey and wanting a plot heavy game means that you/your mod team will probably have to do a lot of heavy lifting to differentiate it from every other survival horror jamjar with demons and monsters and a mysterious setting because there's not a lot of room for people to make up for it. tl;dr just know what you're getting yourself into.

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