"Seek inspiration from people, city streets and poisons
of the mind. Grow your passion, but take care of your sanity or succumb to
madness".
A new life
Welcome to exploring the decadent 19th century alternative history, and a
roguelite game about surviving as a classical artist in 19th century, while
painting masterpieces.
A survival game, featuring feelings
You will be challenged by 66 unique feelings (each with a different effect),
along with poverty and other wordly troubles. Hundreds of cards represent the
psyche of your artist’s mind, and life in Oportunia, the city known as the
world capital of contemporary art.
A rich variety of interaction mechanics
All these artistic, amusing, horrible or lustful details of life are presented
as hundreds of lovingly painted cards that can be combined, collected, talked
or thought about, visited, read or interacted and so on, resulting in a vast
diversity of results, creating new cards and new opportunities of interaction.
The creation of this game was inspired by a cult classic of similar format, but
different vibes.
Mortal challenges
Life of the artist is not easy. Poverty, physical ailments, sanity loss and
other challenges regularly result in permadeath (a variety of permadeaths,
beginning with dying to disease and ending with drinking oneself to death),
followed by a tactful overview of your life (often miserable,
addiction-fuelled, yet passionate) and legacy.
During your life, unpleasant feelings will evolve from bad
to worse if not dealt with. You will have to battle conditions like frustration,
anxiety, anger, guilt, sadness, suicidal thoughts, and multitudes of other
issues, including habits, addictions and temptations of various kind.
Painting, and other pleasures
As an artist, you can paint your sufferings into spectacular masterpieces, or counter
them with pleasant feelings such as love, pure delight or peace. If all else
fails, you can always seek solace in the Bar Avenue establishments, hoping to
drown the bleak thoughts in drink or more exotic soothments. Roguelite fans may
enjoy the iron person mode.
The game is illustrated by both human and AI artists, including 2275 unique
tech-generated oil paintings (refrenced on historic 19th century art, which is
in the public domain, for everyone to use freely). These illustrate the
paintings you create and the thousands of little stories that make up every
run.
18 different endings
You may win numerous minor victories and a selection of grand victories. To win
the grand victory, you must create a painting that will change the world.
As your life evolves, unravels and expands in Nova
Oportunia, life-changing secrets, ideas and experiences reach you. These can be
thought about, developed, and in time, turned into the paintings that will
change the world for thousands or millions of people, leaving a truly majestic
legacy of your life.