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The Curious Expedition
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Adventure · RPG · Strategy · Simulation · Indie

The Curious Expedition

Maschinen-Mensch  /  September 2, 2016  /  Rated Unrated

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Released

2016

Time to beat

~4 hrs

Community

534

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures. Put on your pith helmet and khakis and make your way through a lush, procedurally generated world full of wonder and mystery. Now go explore, adventure awaits!Gameplay overview
  • Experience your very own adventure through a procedural story which makes every game unique.
  • Explore procedurally generated worlds, each with its own distinctive set of challenges for the ambitious explorer.
  • Plan and equip your trek. A good explorer is prepared for any eventuality.
  • Manage your resources to keep your trek alive and sanity high. Balance your needs with the desire to carry all that precious treasure back home.
  • Visit and interact with the land’s natives. Enter villages, trade and communicate with local tribes and civilizations that are unknown to mankind.
  • Loot mysterious temple ruins to gain fame and treasures, but watch out for deadly traps and curses that will compromise your trek and the world around you.
  • Equip and utilize miraculous treasures to gain advantages, but be wary of unforeseeable side effects.
  • Fight and defend your trek against a wide range of wild animals, mystical creatures and even dinosaurs.

Curious Expedition is a 2016 roguelike-adventure video game developed by Maschinen-Mensch for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The player takes control of a party who attempts to navigate through several lost locations on Earth, each one created through procedural generation. Reviewers have praised the game as charming and challenging, but others have criticized it as repetitive. The game has a rating of 74 % on Metacritic based on 11 critic reviews. It was nominated for the German Computer Games Prize in 2015 as Best Youth Game.

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