[Neolithic]To the End Windows game

[Neolithic]To the End

orochi2k | Early Access 2021

TL:DR

Congratulations! You've discovered this secret game on steam.

It's just one old RPG from 2004 that still receives updates today by one solo developer.

More detailed information can be found on the fandom wiki. (It's also working in progress.)

Neolithia.fandom.com

Latest updates:

Store.steampowered.com

Some Features:

Everything in a classical RPG plus...

Bizarre adventures. Neolithia.fandom.com
Full Text-to-Speech Support. (Don't want to read walls of text in an RPG? No problem. Press "S" in dialogs, and your system reads it for you!)
Character Export/Import freely to customize your entire group: Neolithia.fandom.com
First-person gunfight during battle.
Convert supernatural (or not-so-supernatural) enemies to be your pets. Neolithia.fandom.com
Deployable traps, barricades, and furniture to decorate your home.
Create your own faith with all kinds of strange tenets. Neolithia.fandom.com
Your very own home with a map editor. ALL MAPS in the game can be edited during the gameplay. Support import/export map to RMXP.
Magical items and anomalies with their own mechanisms.
Crafting items from 3D printers. Neolithia.fandom.com
Plant and harvest food and...something else. Neolithia.fandom.com
Endless procedurally generated quests from mission boards.
A powerful cheat console that can run Ruby script.
Minigames! The awesome part of an open-world RPG is, that you can get all those minigames for free!
Frequent updates. Who knows what you can find in the future.
DRM-Free!
Highly customizable playing experience.

Risks: (I will be totally honest with you. Thus, I put it here)

1, The game is made with a very old game engine. (For memories' sake)

2, There is only one developer.

3, I am terrible at 2D art.

4, I am not a native speaker of English.

Thus, I provide an honest demo for you. The demo version will update all the way till a certain story is finished.

It reflects the current stage of game development in almost real-time.

If you find the game stopped updating for more than 14 days without any explanation, it's safe to assume I'm dead.

In that case, do not buy the game.

As the game is one of the first and last RMXP games that's ever been developed, I'm not exactly aiming to make it something great. (or even sane.)

Instead, it needs to be unique and fun in a way that people can rarely see nowadays, to make people laugh maniacally even in a grimdark world where both the in-game world and the life circle of RMXP are coming to an end.

Story

Welcome to our secret society of [redacted]. We are among the most ancient ones in our line of work.

For a long time, we have witnessed the rise and fall of many others.

The situation is grim, the world almost ended in 2008, 2012, 2015, and 2020.

Some people predict it will keep ending this year, next year, and the year after.

But, well, even if that's true, even if the ending is inevitable, it is tragic, we are still alive.

So, cheer up! We shall carry on.

As long as we stand, the world shall never fall!

To the end...

Features:

Unbalanced and Unfair

Beneath the facet of the beautiful life people called "normal", lurks the truth that this secret struggle is never fair.

There are things that can hardly be killed. They may come in great numbers to overwhelm us.

Even when not facing such a supernatural entity, a well-trained Kung Fu master can still be killed by just a bullet.

But, We Fight on With All We Have!

We have guns and our own magic. We even learned to bind supernatural entities to our wills.

We have tools and artifacts, we have skills ranging from combat to conversation.

If there is a lock that can hardly be picked, try blowing it.

There are always solutions.

If not, may the butterflies preserve us.

You Are Different.

Your arrival was not expected. You were not on any lists. We know little about you.

Show us, who you are and who you will become with all the perks/skills/proficiency you may develop.

We may still stand a chance against all odds with your help.

Lead us...

In This Vast World

Your loyal companions will follow you from ancient ruins to modern metropolis, from east to west.

You will meet common folks we swear to protect, watching them live their "normal" life.

You will discover mysteries, and solve them when combating evil forces lurking in the dark.

The Secret History

The story behind this game:

Store.steampowered.com

It's the first Neolithic game with English localization that comes to Steam since 2004 when the first game of Neolithic was published in a dark corner of China.

Compared to a commercial game, this is more like a memento to the old golden age of RPG Maker XP (when indie games are really indie; when updates are free instead of being paid DLCs; when developers update games for years, even decades instead of abandon projects as soon as it's no longer profitable; when games are made with passion instead of money-hunger; And, when RPG Maker was not used to just make those cheap adult-only games.)

This is NEOLITHIC!

There are many games out there, made with modern tools and more than 1 developer. They are supposed to be better than mine.

But, they are not. Why?

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We also have cats! They are cute. :3

Something Silly: :P

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DD#174 The Psychedelic Cave, the Drug Dealer, and the Mushrooms

May 31 2024 News

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the last developer's diary of May. When you read this, it's likely been June already. Well, time moves on quite fast. We are almost at our 20th anniversary.

Anyway, let's start to talk about the content we get this week.

First, some follow-ups to Genzou. As the latest new teammate you can recruit, he needs to have some unique features and mechanisms. So, when he is in your group, you may discover some new story content in addition to his personal quest. For example, when you bring him to see a certain Aztec prince, he will comment on how similar they are, both waiting for someone, only to be dismissed by the prince mentioning they are nothing alike. Meanwhile, if Genzou is in your group, many Katan outlaws will not attack you because of some professional courtesy among bandits. (You can still attack them if you like.)

By the way, if you have won many times in the Arena in the Den of Pleasure, they will also no longer attack you.

Now, as we are talking about Katan, many of you may know there was an interesting location that has not been accessible in our current iteration of the game. That is the Psychedelic Cave. This location has been added to the game during this week's updates.
What makes this place quite infamous is, that almost all of its floors are so identical. There are several entrances/exits on each floor, each of them may move you down, move you up, or move you to another location on the same floor.

If you don't pay attention to details, you may find each floor looks just like this.
Thus, at the entrance, a bandit will remind you to bring some butterfly wings in case you get lost.
If you pass a persuasion check, you can convince him to sell you some.
Talking about the entrance.

You can immediately find the cave is not the brightest place in the world.

But, what's in this cave is so important that it keeps attracting people to keep going down there?
Well, let's not spoil that here.

But, you can easily find an ex-chemical teacher and current drug dealer to tell you. (Well, some of you may know this is another easter egg which we have plenty of.)
He is hiring someone to collect some spores carried by the mushrooms in this cave.
Yes, there are a lot of mushrooms. The deeper you go, the more and stranger variations you will encounter. Those spores have many usages. You can use them in alchemy, you can use them in cooking.

Don't tell people what you just added to those foods.
To accommodate this, I also made the food additives more versatile.
It now works this way:
If you are cooking a lot of food, you will need a lot of those additives to take effect. The less food you cook and the more such additives you add, the better the effect modifier. For example: 6 Poisonous Spore + 1 Apple can get you a cooked apple with a high poisonous modifier while 6 Poisonous Spore + 2 Apples may give you 2 cooked apples with only half of that modifier.
Not sure how many people will die from food poison since this update. But, it's going to be fun. :)

Those new mushrooms can also be turned into pets if you desire. They have unique skills and attributes according to their types just like the plague mushrooms we already have before. As they are mushrooms, you can also heal them with fertilizers. They drop their correspondent spores as loot. This also extended to existing mushrooms and their victims. The Plague Mushrooms and their infected victims in a quarantined neighborhood in Liu will now drop poisonous spores.

There are also some mineral deposits in this cave. However, most of them can only be mined for a limited amount of time. On the 4th floor, you may even find deposits of curse stones, indicating something sinister is on the deepest floor ahead which is currently still working in progress.

Other updates of this week include new equipment prefixes that increase resistance to horny, stun, and acid burn, flags of the United States in Queensmouth's various buildings, and more generic alchemy functions. Please refer to the full update logs for details.

That's for this week. So far, none of those things added this week will make you addicted as we don't have an addiction system in place yet. So, feel free to eat them or let others eat them like candies and go as high as you like. Have fun! :)

The full update log of this week:
20240525
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[Genzou]When he is in your group, talking to his dog now has additional dialogs.
[Genzou]If you bring Genzou and talk to a certain Aztec Prince. In one of the dialog options, Genzou will now mention how alike they are while the Aztec Prince will dismiss that.
[Genzou]When you interact with any moonlight flowers in the world and Genzou is in your group, he will say something.
[Queensmouth]Added the flag of the United States in several buildings.
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[Genzou]Fixed a bug that in a rare case you can still see Genzou in his tent even when he is in your group.

20240526
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[Katan]If Genzou is in your group, Katan outlaws will not attack you because of some professional courtesy. However, you can still attack them instead. Those berserkers will still attack you.
[Katan]If you win a lot in the Arena in the Den of Pleasure, Katan outlaws may not attack you. (Each victory increases the chance by 2%) However, you can still attack them instead. Those berserkers will still attack you.
[Prefix]New Prefix: Frigid. (Increase horny resistance. It's a generic prefix that may appear on any equipment.)
[Prefix]New Prefix: Tenacious. (Increase stun resistance. It's a generic prefix that may appear on any equipment.)
[Prefix]New Prefix: Alkaline. (Increase acid burn resistance. It's a generic prefix that may appear on any equipment.)
[Katan]New Location: The Psychedelic Cave. (It has a map effect similar to an old mansion in SAPC++'s School DLC. Still WIP. It's quite empty at this moment.)
[Butterfly]Butterfly Wings now work in the Psychedelic Cave.

20240527
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[The Psychedelic Cave]Added more dialog options on the outlaw at the entrance. He shall provide you with more information about this cave.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added 4 more floors of this cave. All of them look almost identical. Thus, it's quite easy to get lost.
[The Psychedelic Cave]The deeper you go, the environment will become pinker.
[Wiki]Added a wiki page of this location: Neolithia.fandom.com

20240528
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[The Psychedelic Cave]Plague Mushrooms now appear in this cave.
[The Psychedelic Cave]When you go to another floor, the environment on the previous floor may now change.
[The Psychedelic Cave]If you pass a persuasion skill check, you can now convince the outlaw at the entrance to sell you some Butterfly Wings.
[The Psychedelic Cave]On Floor 1, there is now a board near the exit back to Floor 0.
[Skill]New Skill: Aphrodisiac Spore
[Pet/Enemy]New Pet/Enemy: Aphrodisiac Mushroom
[The Psychedelic Cave]Aphrodisiac Mushrooms now appear in this area. The deeper you go, the more of them will appear.

20240529
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[Item]New Item/Alchemy Material: Poisonous Spore
[Item]New Item/Alchemy Material: Aphrodisiac Spore
[Loot]Mushrooms and their infected humans may now drop those spores.
[Cooking] Poisonous Spores can now be used as food additives when cooking. (If you are cooking a lot of food, you will need a lot of those additives to take effect. The less food you cook and the more such additives you add, the better the effect modifier. For example: 6 Poisonous Spore + 1 Apple can get you a cooked apple with a high poisonous modifier while 6 Poisonous Spore + 2 Apples may give you 2 cooked apples with only half of that modifier.)
[Cooking] Aphrodisiac Spores can now be used as food additives when cooking.
[Wiki]The cooking and alchemy effects of those spores have been updated to the Wiki.
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Procedurally generated caves with mushroom enemies may now have Aphrodisiac Mushrooms.
[Shopping]Enchantopia Elegance Emporium and the Mage Guild now sell Poisonous Spore.
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Added a new function to standardize the effect of food additives during the cooking process.

20240530
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[The Psychedelic Cave]Added a new NPC: Mr. Lambert on Floor 0 of this cave. (Some may know what an easter egg this is.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]Mr. Lambert buys the spores you can collect from those mushrooms at a relatively high price.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Mr. Lambert sells some standard medicine supplies and some drugs he makes. (He has an alchemy skill level of about 60.)
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added two types of unique drugs that Mr. Lambert sells.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Added two bodyguards standing behind Mr. Lambert.
[Skill] New Skill: Psychedelic Spore
[Item] New Item: Psychedelic Spore
[Alchemy]Added the alchemy data on Psychedelic Spores.
[Cooking]Added the additive effects on Psychedelic Spores.
[Wiki]Everything above has been updated to the wiki.
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Added a parameter on the brew potion function in the Alchemy system module. This new parameter can override almost everything.

20240531
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[Psychedelic Mushroom]New Enemy/Pet: Psychedelic Mushroom
[Psychedelic Mushroom]Psychedelic Mushrooms now appear in the Psychedelic Cave.
[Psychedelic Mushroom]Psychedelic Mushrooms now appear in the Wonderland Travel Agency's procedurally generated dungeons.
[Psychedelic Mushroom]Psychedelic Mushrooms now drop Psychedelic Spores.
[Skill]New Skill: Exciting Chemical (Psychedelic Mushrooms have this skill when turned into pets.)
[Mining]All mining deposits can now have a limited number of times that you can mine.
[The Psychedelic Cave]Floor 1 to Floor 4 may now have some stone mining deposits. On the 4th floor, there may be cursed stone mining deposits.