Tarock Interactive Working on "Credible Historic Basis" for Roman Germanic Survival Game
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Following the reveal of their MBB-funded survival game Lost Legions yesterday, Berlin studio Tarock Interactive alias Felix Dreyfus and Jens Kortboyer are working with the Archeology department of Humboldt University on the Roman Germanic setting of their debut title.
Yesterday, Berlin based development team Tarock Interactive announced their game Lost Legions with a batch of screenshots exclusive to an IGN preview. The survival crafting game for one to four players is set in a Roman Germanic setting on the territory of today’s Germany. After the defeat at Teutoburger Forest, players take the role of Roman legionairies trying to reclaim the territory and glory of their forbearers.
The game's title, in a slightly different form as ‘Lost Legion’, had been known since Tarock Interactive received 350,000 Euros production state funding by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in October 2023 (German background article here).
The studio alias Felix Dreyfus and Jens Kortboyer is working together with a university partner on the setting of the game to give it its historical credibility. Dreyfus, in an answer to a query by GamesMarkt, explains: “Lost Legions is an amalgam of several concepts that have been buzzing around in our heads for a few years. We've been working on the project full-time since December 2023. The game was funded by Medienboard, without which we probably wouldn't even have founded the company. With Tarock, we are focussing on historical games without limiting ourselves to a single genre. We are working closely with the Winckelmann Institute for Ancient Archaeology at Humboldt University to create a credible historical basis. We see Lost Legions as the first of many games with this claim!”
The game has, as of yet, no release date set, but can be wishlisted on Steam.
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