Prometheus Wept

Prometheus Wept is a turn-based, party-based isometric role-playing game set on Earth after a digital apocalypse. You play as a wandering Classical Technologist, surviving among humanity’s scattered remnants while searching for and trying to restore technological relics from a lost golden age.

A world after collapse

In the near future, advanced communications, lifesaving healthcare, frictionless financial services and automated agriculture, manufacturing and transport underpin daily life. Then a devastating virus, unleashed through an unprecedented cyber-attack, makes it all disappear in less than a day. Industries stop, communications go silent, healthcare fails and financial systems collapse. Generations of chaos, widespread loss of life and a descent into barbarism follow, as nations splinter into isolated, insular city-states.

Choices and consequences

Your decisions, both small and large, shape your journey, and some consequences can follow you to distant places. You might stop a convoy by chopping down a tree or use makeshift spikes to blow out its truck tires; decide whether to use lethal force against residents of a dilapidated fishing port gripped by a mysterious collective madness; or make an enemy river crossing more dangerous by destroying a bridge, rather than sending a runner to secure reinforcements. You can also help overthrow a questionable oligarchy or strengthen its position against growing unrest.

Tactical combat

Combat is turn-based and party-based, using action points. You fight with melee, ranged and explosive weapons, along with aimed and special attacks, perk-based abilities and attacks of opportunity. You can destroy cover to expose enemies, use environmental objects against them and exploit interactions between fire, water and electricity.

Infiltrate computer systems

System infiltration transfers your character’s consciousness into a corrupted computer system while your allies protect them from threats in the physical world. You use scripts, which are abilities, to overcome the system’s security and take control of physical systems such as defenses and doors.

Build your party

The ADAPTER character system has 7 stats, 17 skills and a wide variety of perks. You meet and ally with exceptional characters, each with their own set of perks. One example is Beckett’s Horror Show ability, which manipulates a target’s nervous system and makes them perceive a terrible creature rising from the earth. The resulting Terror effect forces the enemy to skip their next turn.

Craft equipment

You can craft weapons, armour, explosives, gadgets, combat stims and medical supplies. The quality of each item depends on the blueprints you have, your crafting skill and the quality of the components you use.