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DownSouth

DownSouth is a moral-dilemma platformer RPG where your choices affect your sanity, and your sanity affects how you play.

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troopsushi
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troopsushi
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About the Game

DownSouth is a morality-driven Platformer/RPG. Play as South, a stimulant-fueled purple bean, and parkour, converse and fight your way through sprawling dystopian city-scapes. Each choice affects your abilities, dialogue, and even your appearance... Just know, SURVIVAL comes at a moral cost.

MORALITY & GAMEPLAY:

With high sanity, South is a brightly coloured speed-demon: fast and versatile with access to a wide array of dialogue options and movement fluidity... but he's fragile, vulnerable, easily manipulated, and poorly equipped to brute-force dangerous foes.

As South's 'Soul Points' degrade: His colours fade, fluidity falters, dialogue options disappear... What remains is a devoid, uncommunicative killing machine. Powerful, efficient, and increasingly detached from the world around him.

Using up to 5 dialogue options, you'll constantly weigh empathy against self preservation, deciding whether other lives matter more than your own survival.

SIDE EFFECTS OF THIS EXPERIENCE WILL INCLUDE:☺

  • Frame-by-frame, hand drawn pixel-art animation.

  • Detailed dystopian worlds full of bizarre, comedic & morally dubious characters.

  • Branching dialogue and a sanity system that permanently alters the narrative.

  • A cast of main clients and characters that you may befriend, battle or kill.

  • Expressive platforming mechanics and a plethora of hidden secrets.

  • Upgradeable abilities, fluid movement, and combo-chaining combat.

  • Moral dilemmas that evolve based on your every choice.

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