The Age of Decadence

The Age of Decadence is an RPG about surviving in a crumbling society and shaping its future through your choices. Three Noble Houses and four professional guilds struggle for power as people try to understand what destroyed the world. You investigate this mystery through conflicting accounts, while your words and actions can form alliances, create discord and affect how events unfold.

A divided society

The seven factions are the three Noble Houses and four guilds: merchants, assassins, thieves and the army. They compete for power and influence in a world of human greed, brutality, schemes and shifting loyalties. You can encounter over 100 named characters and more than 750 generic characters, each with a unique ID, involved in violent takeovers, assassinations and power grabs. The game includes over 600,000 words of dialogue, and its world has no elves, dwarves, magic or wizards.

A dangerous world

Combat is difficult, and dying is easy. You are not a powerful hero who can defeat anyone and save the world, so you need to choose your fights carefully and think about what you say and do.

Choices and consequences

Your decisions can change the story, the playing field and the options available later. Quests can have multiple solutions, and questlines branch; choices bring consequences and shape your own version of the story. Starting as a mercenary and joining the Imperial Guards leads to different quests, content and perspectives than playing as a merchant, a praetor serving a Noble House or an assassin. As a merchant, you focus less on buying low and selling high and more on plotting and scheming to gain advantages for the guild.

The questlines connect to form a larger story. Each playthrough shows events from one perspective, so playing several times lets you piece together more of what happened and see the effects of your choices. The demo includes the first chapter, with 3 locations and about 30 quests divided among mutually exclusive questlines and decisions.