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The Unclaimed Path

A browser role-playing game where you tend an abandoned farm and your own Qi before the Iron Banner returns. Chapter one is out on itch.io and free to play.

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Cover of The Unclaimed Path: burning houses, soldiers with red banners and a young farmer, below the title and “Escape the sect. Claim the farm. Awaken your Qi.”

The game

You are a young field hand in a sect overrun by the Iron Banner. With a stolen cultivation manual you flee to an abandoned farm in the wilderness and have to build a life from nothing.

Each day has a limited number of action points: grow herbs in the garden, meditate to gather Qi, travel to the forest and the ruins, and fight turn-based battles against boars, bears and a mad monk. On day four the faction's tax collector knocks on the gate, and from then on the days count down.

How it's built

  • Godot 4 and GDScript, exported to HTML5 and Windows
  • All art is drawn in code as flat, geometric shapes
  • Sound effects, rain and night sounds are synthesized in code, no audio files
  • Scales down to 640 × 480, with its own layout for narrow screens
  • Saves automatically in the browser and can export a backup
  • Weather, watering and heat waves are simulated in the garden day by day

Screenshots

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  • The title screen with the buttons Begin a new journey, Continue journey and Import save
    The title screen
  • Prologue scene with three houses, three figures by the herb fields and the line “Then the warning bell starts to ring.”
    Prologue: the sect's herb fields
  • Scene with burning houses and soldiers with red banners shouting “Field rat with a book! Cut him down!”
    Escaping the Iron Banner
  • The main screen with a map of the homestead, herb forest, ruins and bridge, actions and a journal
    The valley map
  • The herb garden with four plots: a ripe herb, a growing herb, a Qi lotus and a tilled plot, while it rains
    The herb garden in the rain
  • The Breath of the Earth mini-game, where a meditating figure breathes in time with a golden ring
    Cultivation: Breath of the Earth
  • The tax collector at the farm gate: “10 days. Then I come back for the tax, or I take it out of your bones.”
    The tax collector at the gate
  • A turn-based battle against the ruin guard with health bars, stats, possible loot and a battle log
    Fighting the ruin guard

Try it yourself

The game runs right in the browser with nothing to install. If you have an idea for a game or an interactive experience of your own, tell us about it.

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