Buy Meriwether: An American Epic PC key

Meriwether: An American Epic is a single-player, first-person RPG about the Corps of Discovery expedition. You play as Meriwether Lewis, leading co-captain William Clark and three dozen volunteers from the United States Army from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back. The journey covers more than 3,700 miles of rivers, plains, forests and mountains, under a mission commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson.

You explore, hunt and manage resources while making choices that shape the story and customize the game to your play style. With no reliable map available, you draw your own as you travel. You must make do with the supplies you can carry while facing starvation, exposure, disease and other dangers. A first playthrough takes over 20 hours, and your actions determine which of five distinct fates Meriwether Lewis meets.

Choices and leadership

An innovative dialogue system lets you approach situations as a Leader, Diplomat, Soldier or Scientist. You also have to keep your Melancholy in check. To keep death at bay, manage resources carefully, negotiate with the Native American nations you encounter and maintain your men's morale.

The expedition

The game includes hundreds of plants and animals modeled on species Lewis documented during the journey. You hunt with period weapons, including flintlock rifles, and treat your men's wounds and illnesses using logic and luck. Historically accurate treatments include mercury-laced laxatives.

The game draws on research into Lewis and Clark history and the culture of early 1800s America, with historical details checked down to the buttons on uniforms.