Thea: The Awakening

Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based survival strategy game set in a world swallowed by an apocalyptic force known as the Darkness. Rooted in Slavic myth, its world is inhabited by creatures such as Strigas and Baba Yagas, but there are no heroes, monster slayers or great armies to defeat them. You lead a small group of starving survivors and try to keep them alive.

Survive in Thea

Explore a huge, procedurally generated world across hexagonal maps; each playthrough creates a new adventure. You can stay in your village to build its defenses or send your people out on expeditions. The day-and-night cycle affects play: villagers can recognize threats from farther away during the day, while creatures become more aggressive at night.

Manage your village by building and upgrading structures, discovering technologies, crafting items and gathering resources. The game includes over 4,400 items to craft or find in the world. On expeditions, each villager carries their own gear and gains experience in battle, improving abilities such as resource gathering, diplomacy, healing and black magic.

Resolve conflicts

Combat is handled through a card-based system, with conflicts also offering options such as assassination, stealth, diplomacy and hunting. Which approaches are available depends on your people’s skills, so fighting is not the only way to resolve a conflict. The system can resolve encounters through combat, diplomacy, curses and more.

Events and creatures

More than 200 non-linear story events can bring riches or cost your group its possessions or lives. The world contains over 100 types of deadly creatures, many inspired by Slavic mythology. Creature instances are procedurally generated, giving each creature—including members of a swarm of spiders—its own skills and stats.

Choices and endings

Your choices determine which of the game’s multiple endings you reach. Rewards and unlocks carry over to your next playthrough.