[Neolithic]To the End Windows game

[Neolithic]To the End

orochi2k | Early Access 2021

TL:DR

Congratulations! You've discovered this secret game on steam.

It's just one old RPG from 2004 that still receives updates today by one solo developer.

More detailed information can be found on the fandom wiki. (It's also working in progress.)

Neolithia.fandom.com

Latest updates:

Store.steampowered.com

Some Features:

Everything in a classical RPG plus...

Bizarre adventures. Neolithia.fandom.com
Full Text-to-Speech Support. (Don't want to read walls of text in an RPG? No problem. Press "S" in dialogs, and your system reads it for you!)
Character Export/Import freely to customize your entire group: Neolithia.fandom.com
First-person gunfight during battle.
Convert supernatural (or not-so-supernatural) enemies to be your pets. Neolithia.fandom.com
Deployable traps, barricades, and furniture to decorate your home.
Create your own faith with all kinds of strange tenets. Neolithia.fandom.com
Your very own home with a map editor. ALL MAPS in the game can be edited during the gameplay. Support import/export map to RMXP.
Magical items and anomalies with their own mechanisms.
Crafting items from 3D printers. Neolithia.fandom.com
Plant and harvest food and...something else. Neolithia.fandom.com
Endless procedurally generated quests from mission boards.
A powerful cheat console that can run Ruby script.
Minigames! The awesome part of an open-world RPG is, that you can get all those minigames for free!
Frequent updates. Who knows what you can find in the future.
DRM-Free!
Highly customizable playing experience.

Risks: (I will be totally honest with you. Thus, I put it here)

1, The game is made with a very old game engine. (For memories' sake)

2, There is only one developer.

3, I am terrible at 2D art.

4, I am not a native speaker of English.

Thus, I provide an honest demo for you. The demo version will update all the way till a certain story is finished.

It reflects the current stage of game development in almost real-time.

If you find the game stopped updating for more than 14 days without any explanation, it's safe to assume I'm dead.

In that case, do not buy the game.

As the game is one of the first and last RMXP games that's ever been developed, I'm not exactly aiming to make it something great. (or even sane.)

Instead, it needs to be unique and fun in a way that people can rarely see nowadays, to make people laugh maniacally even in a grimdark world where both the in-game world and the life circle of RMXP are coming to an end.

Story

Welcome to our secret society of [redacted]. We are among the most ancient ones in our line of work.

For a long time, we have witnessed the rise and fall of many others.

The situation is grim, the world almost ended in 2008, 2012, 2015, and 2020.

Some people predict it will keep ending this year, next year, and the year after.

But, well, even if that's true, even if the ending is inevitable, it is tragic, we are still alive.

So, cheer up! We shall carry on.

As long as we stand, the world shall never fall!

To the end...

Features:

Unbalanced and Unfair

Beneath the facet of the beautiful life people called "normal", lurks the truth that this secret struggle is never fair.

There are things that can hardly be killed. They may come in great numbers to overwhelm us.

Even when not facing such a supernatural entity, a well-trained Kung Fu master can still be killed by just a bullet.

But, We Fight on With All We Have!

We have guns and our own magic. We even learned to bind supernatural entities to our wills.

We have tools and artifacts, we have skills ranging from combat to conversation.

If there is a lock that can hardly be picked, try blowing it.

There are always solutions.

If not, may the butterflies preserve us.

You Are Different.

Your arrival was not expected. You were not on any lists. We know little about you.

Show us, who you are and who you will become with all the perks/skills/proficiency you may develop.

We may still stand a chance against all odds with your help.

Lead us...

In This Vast World

Your loyal companions will follow you from ancient ruins to modern metropolis, from east to west.

You will meet common folks we swear to protect, watching them live their "normal" life.

You will discover mysteries, and solve them when combating evil forces lurking in the dark.

The Secret History

The story behind this game:

Store.steampowered.com

It's the first Neolithic game with English localization that comes to Steam since 2004 when the first game of Neolithic was published in a dark corner of China.

Compared to a commercial game, this is more like a memento to the old golden age of RPG Maker XP (when indie games are really indie; when updates are free instead of being paid DLCs; when developers update games for years, even decades instead of abandon projects as soon as it's no longer profitable; when games are made with passion instead of money-hunger; And, when RPG Maker was not used to just make those cheap adult-only games.)

This is NEOLITHIC!

There are many games out there, made with modern tools and more than 1 developer. They are supposed to be better than mine.

But, they are not. Why?

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We also have cats! They are cute. :3

Something Silly: :P

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DD#175 Those Who Came Before

6hours ago News

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

First of all. Something for the Pride Month.

We now have 6 genders in the game. (Previously we had 4. 2 were added last year as gender and appearance were made no longer linked together.) Now we have non-binary genders and NPCs shall correctly address a character of non-binary gender as "they," "them," "Mx." and words as such.
In addition to customizing your main character and any customized teammates like this, you can now also find a new potion sold by various caretaker members. They can allow you to change the gender of your pet at will. All those gender changes may have some minor impacts on different parts of the game. Such as some NPCs' attributes to you. But what is most important is you can be anyone you want to be. You can be your true self. Have fun! :)

Now, let's go down to the major story update of this week.
The story content in the Psychedelic Cave takes an even wider turn. You can now have access to the deepest level. On that level, you may find something that you may not expect.

You will also find that you are not the first one who comes down this deep.
The Foundation was here and the documents of an anomaly are all over the place.
Yes, one anomaly and multiple conflicted documents, each one brings more horror than another.
You can also discover the fate of their expedition force.
As the story has a lot of connections with other parts of the game, I am not going to spoil it too much here.

Will you serve one eldritch horror just so that you can fight off another?
Well, at least, there are not many places you can lose your sanity down here.

Meanwhile, thanks to those who come before, traversing the Psychedelic Cave now become a bit easier. Even if you don't have The Seal of Pilz'qar, the Foundation has set up signal beacons on each floor to tell how deep you are in the cave. They are also coincidently all placed very close to the exits so that at least you can always know a way out. Meanwhile, if you follow the corpses left behind by something malicious you can find a way to go deeper and deeper so that you can always relatively easily reach the deepest level.

But what comes afterward when you learn the truth?
For one, as mentioned above, you can help a certain not-so-hostile faction. (They will appear on your relationship menu so that you can know their attitudes to you.)
On the other hand, you can also try to stop someone from unintentionally spreading the influence of such horror. You can achieve that by persuasion or by force. Your teammates will react accordingly if they are presented.

That's for this week.
What once was will be.

The full log of this week:
20240601
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[The Psychedelic Cave]New Location: The Deepest of the Psychedelic Cave.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Once you have reached The Deepest of the Psychedelic Cave, you can use Butterfly Wings to teleport there.
[Alchemy]Added more dynamic icons for procedurally generated potions.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Part of the ground on the 4th floor is now covered with skulls. That shall be adequate to let you know you are currently on this floor.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added a dead body of an outlaw on the 2nd floor of the cave with a document "The Last Note of an Outlaw." (After all, everything is related to the main quest.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]You can also find some spores on this dead body.
[Wiki]Added one of the traverse paths from Floor 0 to the deepest part of the cave on the wiki page. (There are other paths. But, this shall make things a bit easier.)

20240602
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[LGBTQ+]Added 2 more gender options when creating or editing a character: "Non-Binary, in a feminine body" and "Non-Binary, in a masculine body."
[LGBTQ+]NPCs shall use gender-neutral terms when referring to a non-binary character such as using the title "Mx." and the pronoun "they/their/them." (Most changes happen in the English localization. Chinese localizations are by nature already quite gender-neutral. Thus, not many changes there.)
[LGBTQ+]Non-Binary characters shall have their own gender icon in the character menu.
[Item]New Item: Pet Gender Reassign Potion (It allows you to easily change the gender of a pet.)
[Shopping]Many caretakers and Dr. Kyofu now sell Pet Gender Reassign Potions.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Lootable skeletons may now appear on various floors of this cave. The deeper you go, the more likely you can find a few.
[Loot]Add 9 new lines of dialogs when you find a chest.

20240603
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[The Psychedelic Cave]The deepest level now has a corrupted robot hostile to you. It will not respawn.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added a dead body of a foundation agent at the entrance from Floor 3 to Floor 4.
[The Psychedelic Cave]On the dead body of the foundation agent, you can find an M4A1, some ammo, and a new document <<Foundation File-UPEX2144>>
[The Psychedelic Cave]There are now several signal towers that broadcast how deep underground you currently are. They are coincidently near the exits to the previous floor. So, basically, you can find a way outside the cave by following those signal towers. (You can guess who left those behind.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added a dead body of a foundation agent at the entrance from Floor 4 to the Deepest Floor.
[The Psychedelic Cave]On the dead body of the foundation agent, you can find some Butterfly Wings, some C4s, and a newly updated document of <<Foundation File-UPEX2144>>(It has some information about something that happened in China 2 years ago.)
[Wiki]Added the information about the dead bodies and the signal towers on the Wiki page.

20240604
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[The Psychedelic Cave]Added more decorations on the deepest floor.
[The Psychedelic Cave]On the deepest floor, you can now find a computer terminal that the corrupted robot is guarding.
[The Psychedelic Cave]You can find the two previous versions of <<Foundation File-UPEX2144>> and the "Current Version" of <<Foundation File-UPEX2144>> on this computer terminal. (You can find out how things get escalated.)
[Dialogs]Add 5 new random lines of dialogs when you find a computer in a dungeon.
[The Psychedelic Cave]You can now have a way to enter the building on the deepest level. (The method will be mentioned in a future document. But you may already be able to figure it out.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]Inside the building, you can find some strange meat in each cage.
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Random description lines for generic items are now controlled by a unified system module.

20240605
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[The Psychedelic Cave]The computer terminal on the deepest floor now has a new document <<The Psychedelic Cave Expedition Log>> (You can find how to open that gate at the end of this document.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]New background music when you enter the building on the deepest floor.
[The Psychedelic Cave]The graphics tone shall also change when you enter the building on the deepest floor.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added a note inside the building.
[The Psychedelic Cave]The entire building is now accessible.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added some initial story content of a part of a new story.

20240606
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[Relationship]A certain precursor civilization now appears on the relationship UI once you find them.
[Item]New Item: The Seal of Pilz'qar (When any of your teammates wear it, mushrooms will not attack you.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]The story on the deepest floor continues. You may be able to get The Seal of Pilz'qar.
[The Psychedelic Cave]You can now sacrifice a collared human on the deepest floor. Most of your story teammates will not be happy if you do so.

20240607
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[The Psychedelic Cave]Added a dialog option to reveal what happened to a certain precursor civilization.
[The Psychedelic Cave]You can now convince Mr. Lambert to stop selling drugs and leave. You will not receive any material rewards for this. But some of your teammates like your actions if you do so. (Also, if you find out those foundation documents, you may have a good reason to do so.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]You can now attack Mr. Lambert to force him to leave. You will not receive any material rewards for this other than the battle loot. But some of your teammates like your actions if you do so. (Also, if you find out those foundation documents, you may have a good reason to do so.)
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Added a module that unified the control over events that shall change relationship value on your teammates.