
Shroud of the Avatar will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux as a download-only title.Īccording to the Kickstarter reward tiers, the game is aimed for an October 2014 release. The project has received over $250,000 at the time of this writing. Summary: A fantasy RPG that combines a single player narrative with a sandbox MMO. Details of how it will function are said to be coming at a later date.ĭeveloper Portalarium is seeking $1 million by April 7 to finish the game. The game will have a multiplayer mode similar to an MMO but on a much smaller scale. It's Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, an episodic RPG with a name that makes just as much sense if you randomly reorder all the words in it. Shroud of the Avatar will focus on letting players create their own stories with its interactive, open-world, replayable “adventure scenes,” player housing, item crafting, and PVP combat, according to the Kickstarter page. Garriott says he wants to emphasize the “role playing,” of RPGs in his Kickstarter pitch video (above).

Richard Garriott, designer of the Ultima series, and co-founder of Portalarium, describes his new game, Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, as a spiritual successor to 1997’s Ultima Online. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues was publicly announced on March 8, 2013, by Austin, Texas-based developer Portalarium.

The father of the Ultima RPG series is returning to video games determined to redefine the genre once again with the help of Kickstarter backers. Here is some gameplay from the free to play title Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues.
