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You are the General Manager and CEO of your very own Adventuring Agency, the riskiest yet most lucrative business in the Realm of Astraeus. Recruit adventurers, negotiate their contracts, send them out on dangerous quests and reap the rewards should they make it out alive. Expand your Agency, manage your growing resources and best your competitors to become the Epic Manager!Epic Manager is a fresh new take on the Tycoon RPG genre, heavily inspired by classics we all know and love! The game presents a unique mix of roster management and character progression found in titles like Football Manager or Final Fantasy Tactics, narrative choices & consequences in the beloved tradition of gamebooks series Choose Your Own Adventure, the epic scope of a D&D campaign or a Lord of the Rings novel and the humoristic tone of The Princess Bride, all in one awesome package!Your goal is to gain the title of Epic Manager by becoming the most famous Adventuring Agency in the vast Realm of Astraeus.
Send agents on the field to prospect new job opportunities, scout the dangers ahead, recruit new adventurers, negotiate their contracts, organize them in parties and complete dangerous quests to earn more fame than your rivals and climb the rankings of the League Ladder!
Along with managing your contracts and jobs, you’ll also hire support staff, trade with the local merchants, upgrade your agency’s HQ, research new abilities and upgrades, expand your reach across Astraeus and interact with competitors by using intrigue and diplomatic actions.Adventurers are the backbone of your Agency. To find them, you’ll first need to organize recruitment campaigns across the Realm, then negotiate contract terms with those who present suitable talents, traits and growth potential!Add recruits to your ever-growing roster of unique characters and manage their progression as they gain experience and level-up. Experiment with the endless combinations and powerful synergies offered by our Multi Class system and build parties suited for every situation.Discover an emergent narrative shaped by YOUR actions. As your forces move on the map, they will come across an ever-growing bank of Random Encounters, narrative mini-scenarios giving you many choices on how to proceed. In some cases, having a specific class in your party will even reveal special hints and hidden options!In each campaign, actions you make will influence the ruthless political web of Astraeus and modify your reputation with each of the game’s 12 factions. Encounters and quests you decide to complete will lead to job opportunities that might not have available to you otherwise. As your agency grows, you’ll also use the Tech Tree and spend research points to unlock new abilities and specializations that fit your own play-style.As the commander-in-chief, you’ll get to take command of your adventurers as they meet increasingly dangerous foes on the battlefield. The parties you create will allow for powerful class and character synergies to stack the odds in your favor, as you make the best use of the hundreds of items, skills and spells at your disposal.
Scout battles in advance to gather intelligence about the enemy forces and better exploit the weaknesses of dozens of enemy types inspired by bestiary classics : Goblins, Orcs, Ratmen, Gnolls, Skeletons, Zombies, Giants and many more!Some adventurers will grow from rookies to heroes, legends even, while others will quickly meet an untimely end. Such are the dangers of being an adventurer!Epic Manager features many procedurally generated content like randomized adventurers, equipment items and quest rewards to make each play-through different from the next! We want Astraeus to feel like a living world that reacts to you, just as you react to it. World Events, Random Encounters and RNG-based dice rolls will determine the consequences of some of your choices, changing the priorities of your Agency’s day-to-day operations.Scattered in Astraeus are very familiar and powerful characters. Some, like the Shovel Knight and Rogue Legacy Knight might be easy to find, others not so much - look for them as your forces venture across the Realm!
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All of Epic Manager's SFXs and Original Sound Tracks were created by our talented collaborators and friends over at GeekSound Factory.
http://www.geeksoundfactory.com
Send agents on the field to prospect new job opportunities, scout the dangers ahead, recruit new adventurers, negotiate their contracts, organize them in parties and complete dangerous quests to earn more fame than your rivals and climb the rankings of the League Ladder!
Along with managing your contracts and jobs, you’ll also hire support staff, trade with the local merchants, upgrade your agency’s HQ, research new abilities and upgrades, expand your reach across Astraeus and interact with competitors by using intrigue and diplomatic actions.Adventurers are the backbone of your Agency. To find them, you’ll first need to organize recruitment campaigns across the Realm, then negotiate contract terms with those who present suitable talents, traits and growth potential!Add recruits to your ever-growing roster of unique characters and manage their progression as they gain experience and level-up. Experiment with the endless combinations and powerful synergies offered by our Multi Class system and build parties suited for every situation.Discover an emergent narrative shaped by YOUR actions. As your forces move on the map, they will come across an ever-growing bank of Random Encounters, narrative mini-scenarios giving you many choices on how to proceed. In some cases, having a specific class in your party will even reveal special hints and hidden options!In each campaign, actions you make will influence the ruthless political web of Astraeus and modify your reputation with each of the game’s 12 factions. Encounters and quests you decide to complete will lead to job opportunities that might not have available to you otherwise. As your agency grows, you’ll also use the Tech Tree and spend research points to unlock new abilities and specializations that fit your own play-style.As the commander-in-chief, you’ll get to take command of your adventurers as they meet increasingly dangerous foes on the battlefield. The parties you create will allow for powerful class and character synergies to stack the odds in your favor, as you make the best use of the hundreds of items, skills and spells at your disposal.
Scout battles in advance to gather intelligence about the enemy forces and better exploit the weaknesses of dozens of enemy types inspired by bestiary classics : Goblins, Orcs, Ratmen, Gnolls, Skeletons, Zombies, Giants and many more!Some adventurers will grow from rookies to heroes, legends even, while others will quickly meet an untimely end. Such are the dangers of being an adventurer!Epic Manager features many procedurally generated content like randomized adventurers, equipment items and quest rewards to make each play-through different from the next! We want Astraeus to feel like a living world that reacts to you, just as you react to it. World Events, Random Encounters and RNG-based dice rolls will determine the consequences of some of your choices, changing the priorities of your Agency’s day-to-day operations.Scattered in Astraeus are very familiar and powerful characters. Some, like the Shovel Knight and Rogue Legacy Knight might be easy to find, others not so much - look for them as your forces venture across the Realm!
- Dozens of Enemy Types and tons of Quests, Random Encounters and World Events.
- Unique characters and bosses.
- Trade Adventurers with other agencies.
- Discover all hidden “Prestige Classes”, available for High-Level characters.
- New Merchant : Enchant and improve equipment at the Enchanter.
- New Merchant : Craft and combine items by visiting the Alchemist.
- Community-Created Content :Adventurers, Quests, Encounters, Items and more!
http://www.manavoid.com
All of Epic Manager's SFXs and Original Sound Tracks were created by our talented collaborators and friends over at GeekSound Factory.
http://www.geeksoundfactory.com
System requirements for PC
Minimum:
- OS: Windows XP
- Processor: Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 720p Capable Display and Resolution
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7 or Later
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1080p Capable Display and Resolution
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
System requirements for macOS
Minimum:
- OS: OSX 10.7 Lion or above
- Processor: Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 720p Capable Display and Resolution
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: OSX Sierra 10.12
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1080p Capable Display and Resolution
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Epic Manager - Create Your Own Adventuring Agency! reviews and comments
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Early Access Review Epic Manager Is about running a Hero Brokerage Agency.
You enter Into contracts with promising Adventurers and send them on "epic" quests.
Fulfilling the Quests brings you everything an Agency desires: Fame and Money!
Not only do You want to have both, but you also need it in order to be able to continue playing at all, because other Agencies want to put you out of business.
At regular Intervals, the two Agencies with the fewest Fame are priced out of the Market (i.e. they are leaving). After the first Year, the best Agency moves up to the next higher League.
And that is exactly what your Main Goal is.
Through the Exit from the Quests, you can expand your Agency and make your Hero Group more effective, attract Traders or recruit spies who sabotage other Agencies.
The RPG Element is that you send your Hero group to the Destinations of the Quests.
In doing so, they can only run a certain Number of Fields per Round and at each Intermediate field, Chance Encounters can take place.
These usually have several Choices (unless it is a Fight), which is extended by the Presence of certain Adventurer Classes.
As an Example, a Thief can say that the Box is probably harmless to open.
This reduces the degree of Difficulty that needs to be rolled on the Part of this Action.
As with classic Pen and Paper.
You lve up your Heroes, buy or find Equip, learn new Skills and combine Classes.
The Tycoon (Manager) Element can be found when Expanding the Agency and Negotiating with your own Heroes. This can only be contractually committed for a certain Period of time and it is necessary to renegotiate after the Expiry of the Contract Period.
Since the Heroes have (hopefully) gained a lot of Experience by then, they also want a lot more coal. Here you can offer Poker, and less Money or longer Contract times with the Risk of the Hero rejecting. It may also be that the Hero is not open to any further Negotiations and goes.
In addition, you expand your Relationships with the Questers to include Bonuses and better Quests.
I find the Dedication of the Developers to adapt the Game to the Wishes of the Community.
To the feedback button in the main menu, Missing in many other Early Access Games, they also have an extensive Survey in which you can express Wishes, Praise and Criticism.
Some of the Points I raised there have been changed after a short Period of time.
For me personally, the Tycoon Genre has been a bit too little developed so far, but Epic Manager is already a lot of Fun and thanks to the NPC Competition you can still lose to the End.
A Multiplayer Modus alá Civilization would still be the Hammer and would justify a Price of €186.
Epic Manager definitely brings some Variety to the Steam Library.