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Riftborne

A classic terminal based 4x space strategy! · By Riftborne

Pending addition of more steam keys

A topic by AnthreasTheHoplite created 78 days ago Views: 190 Replies: 3
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So trying to get a steam key it states "There are no keys available at this time, try again later"

This is something we can resolve over time?

Fantastic game. Its a real gem. Scratches a very specific itch and has reunited me with an older laptop that I am using to play it.
There is something special about CLI aesthetic and I am so grateful it runs natively on Linux.

I've already started showing it of as something truly unique.

Developer

Hey Anthreas, oops I must have run out of steam keys! I will get you another one. Do you have discord? I could send you one on there. Otherwise let me check if I can do it here on itch retroactively.

Thank you so much for that feedback as well, really appreciate it. I love the Asci CLI aesthetic and gives the community a lot of flexibility with how they play the game. Grew up with Dwarf Fortress, MUD, Stars, and the old school SSH games so wanted to emulate that kind of feeling. 

Developer

I have uploaded a bunch more steam keys now. Can you grab one retroactively? 

Hey! Apologies for not getting around to the discord offer. I've just checked in now.
And yes I managed to get a steam key! Thank you so much its really appreciated.

Ah I see. MUD hmm... I wonder if this was the game I remember playing long ago and since I could not remember the name I did not get to continue. There was a time I did a CLI only challenge in university for a few months. I played allot of text based games during that time and there was an online text based game where you role played with people online. I did not get too far in since my role play skill was not too great but I still think back to that quite fondly. I remember being a werewolf or something because cool factor and instead of going on a rampage one of the first things I did was go for a haircut and had to actually talk to the barber. :D

There are experiences like that where due to how little is visually displayed that the imagination runs wild a lot more.

Anyway I am honored by your attention but should not ramble on too much. I am just so glad that you have made a game like this. A few years back I was looking for good ascii type games but I did not really find many that stuck with me. (That new calendar thing on steam is how I discovered this recently btw.)

I was also into dwarf fortress but before steam release the controls always got me in that game but I was happy to support Tarn and Zach on steam and that got me into it in a big way... But even though there is ascii setting it took me away form ascii for DF. (Glass floors are too cool.)

Anyway I mostly played quite a bit of Warsim. So ideally had always fallen more into the strategy line of games so this has been right up my alley. I still have allot to learn though as I play. Can't wait for the weekend!

But I am really rambling so: Thank you, best of wishes and highest respect.