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Sand Nomads

Sand Nomads is an open world tactical RPG where you lead a team of nomads looking for riches and fame across a massive futuristic desert planet. Explore the world, recruit companions, chase rewards and unravel the mysteries of ancient alien ruins!

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Tortuga Team
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PlayPanic
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The distant planet of Eldo is rarely reached by space freighters from the central worlds. It is inhabited by the Tarabs, for whom the technology of interstellar travel is intertwined with archaic superstition.

Sand Nomads is an open world turn-based RPG which has you leading a company of nomads in a dangerous sci-fi world. You decide where to go, whom to hire or to fight, what contracts to take and how to train and equip your men.

GATHER YOUR TEAM OF NOMADS



Lead a group of nomads on a dangerous quest for riches and fame in a sand world full of tales and mystic. Recruiting new companions with numerous unique specializations, skill sets, weapon preferences and personalities.

TURN BASED COMBAT



Once you engage a group of bandits or sand monsters the game will switch to a tactical map where the actual fighting takes place as detailed turn based combat. Chose skills wizely to outsmart enemies and minimize damage. Your nomads could get scars, grievous wounds or even die after battle.

DISCOVER MYSTERIOUS RUINS OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION



Journey through a vast, open world in your quest for fame and wealth, immersing yourself in desperate nomads and mercenaries. Explore abandoned mines, alien ruins, and traders camps as you piece together the history of this mystic world.

FEATURES

  • Manage a mercenary team in a nomad culture inspired sci-fi setting.
  • Wast open world to discover. Face bandits and monsters, complete quests, gather resources and find rare artifacts.
  • Turn-based tactical battles with a hazardous randomly generated environment.
  • Character development based on a class system. Hunter, Wanderer, Daredevil, Sharpshooter, Crusher and more with special traits and powerful perks.
  • Equipment that matters. Different weapons grant unique skills – jumping backpacks, stealth modules, energy shields, shock mauls, void-spears and more.
  • Permadeath. All characters that die in combat will stay dead.
  • Various enemy roster. All enemies have unique equipment, skills and AI behavior.
  • Quest story line to resolve on each territory - decide what side do you choose and change the history of the desert.
  • Abandoned alien ruins – find ancient ruins of legendary faded civilization, get unique articafts and unravel the mystery of their disappearance.
  • And of course craft, professions, knowledge tree, rewardable achievements and more.


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