Northern Shadow is a first person perspective RPG where you can build and manage your own kingdom. It has both sandbox elements, and a classical RPG story.
Game starts after the great defeat of the Northern Kingdom, at the hands of an unknown enemy. Some of the survivors have traveled to distant lands in hopes of rebuilding the now fallen kingdom
Gameplay
You can only control your own character. Build your city by talking to your steward workers and selecting an appropriate lot from a miniature map. Protect your surrounding lands by ordering patrols and giving special missions to your troops. Troop effectiveness is determined by their training and weapons/armor quality.
Your cities can produce different wares, which you can trade with other kingdoms if you wish, but you have to protect your roads and provide safe environment for traders first. Wage war or form alliances with other computer controlled kingdoms as you see fit.
It is all text based (no voice overs), but has an expanding story with many arcs.
Features
Your kingdom, your people
Build and improve your own city. Communicate with other kingdoms, negotiate trade agreements and build alliances. Defend your city and your lands.
Classic RPG systems
In combat, depend on your own skills, rather than statistics on your character sheet. Use spells or weapons, you can play the game your way. Craft weapons for your use, or for your troops.
Living World
Living economy allows you to see the ripples of your own actions all around the world. Your steward will take care of your city while you are gone.
Explore
Discover worlds both above, and beneath the earth. Find precious mineral veins and other treasures.
Ah genre blending stuff, always a great idea. No not really. Still I am interested, sounds like my kind of game. I'm just not expecting a good final game.
Yeah, I don't know. Usually with these blenders, neither of the genres is implemented well, causing everything to feel mediocre at best. But let's see. I am more interested in the building aspect, of course.
A first-person RPG/Builder? Colour me interested .. but yeah, I'm with you guys; blenders aren't exactly the most successful of games - not unless it's already a blending of compatible genres.
Unbelievably good visuals for a Unity game, I'm thoroughly impressed. I really do hope they can pull off the melding of genres well enough as this looks like it could be great.
First of all, a big thank you to everyone that supported the game. Seeing so many people interested in the game was an amazing experience. Thank you!
I’ve worked on the game as a solo developer until the start of 2016. At that point it became apparent that the game I was working had gradually ended up being a completely different game. I had hoped to maybe somehow preserve the original vision of Northern Shadow, but unfortunately after a year of development that effort has failed. And it's time to call it.
Development of Northern Shadow ended on January 2016. Huge thanks to everyone that followed the development over the years.
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). It's one hell of an ambitious title though, hope they succeed 
