The Journey Truly Begins + More News

Greetings, misfits!

It is finally time to set foot into the perilous wastelands of Outcast Tales! You heard it right: as of this moment, the prologue chapter of Outcast Tales titled Outcast Tales: The First Journey is out! So you can pause reading this devlog and go download it right now. We’ll wait.

“But Mr. Outcast, what is this prologue chapter?” we hear you ask. Here is the rundown, just for you:

• Your first journey awaits!

More than just a prologue, Outcast Tales: The First Journey features a unique shorter campaign you can sink your teeth into right now! Just don’t get any sand in your mouth.

Assemble your crew, battle your way through monsters and crooks, awkwardly stumble around social interactions, and maybe even defeat some big guy at the end of the run! Not yet an Outcast Tale, but an Outcast Short Story for sure!

The first step towards your own tale awaits.

• Many tales to tell

Finishing your first run is just the start of that journey, though. It ain’t a good tale if you don’t want to read it over and over again, after all! And there’s plenty of stuff to keep you coming back: try out the 4 available characters and 5 available personality types, engage in numerous unique events, and challenge yourself with 3 difficulty modes.

Enjoy multiple characters and personality types, with more to come!

Once you finish your first run, you will get access to Contracts to spice up your journey

even more: finish unique tasks and who knows what might happen!

• Old wounds, new looks

One can’t attend a big event without putting on something dapper! To celebrate the

game’s sort-of-birthday, we got it some new clothes as well: the UI has been completely revamped for that rustic Western-y look, and the backgrounds have all been given a new life. The Wasteland has also been populated with many more items and deadly enemies. So look around, but don’t dawdle!

• Living to tell the tale

The cool thing about surviving is not making it, but telling everyone else you did. To that end, we added Twitch integration for all your backseat gaming buddies. And if you’re more of a lone wolf, The First Journey will have plenty of achievements so you can style on your friends without ever having to lock gazes.

• A reliable narrator

One can’t have a tale if there’s no one to tell it. Thankfully, Outcast Tales features a narrator ready to describe all of your ups and downs, failures and successes, questionable decisions and downright awkward moments. 

To make the zany and often-ridiculous world of Outcast Tales more cohesive, the story needs to be delivered with all the deadpan impartiality of a British voice, and who could be better for the role than Samuel Barnett? Known for his roles as Dirk Gently and Cyberpunk 2077’s Delamain, Barnett’s soothing cadence is sure to alleviate the pain of failure and make that one sneaky dialogue choice resonate that much more.

We hope all of these arguments convince you to drop everything you were doing and give the game a go right now (aside from the whole prologue thing being free, of course). 

All of that and more is just the start of our collective journey as we’re reaching the finishing stretch of development: expect the full game to feature a much longer campaign, tons of new enemies and items, more characters and personality types, and many more of those sweet unique events. Speaking of that…

…the full version of Outcast Tales will be released this year!

Now that you’re all buttered up, set forth! And once you’ve had your share of adventure, don’t forget to share your tale on our Discord and Twitter.

See you soon!