Traction Edge

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Traction Edge
Alpha Project
Developer Mongrol
Theme Steampunk
Influences UFO/Xcom
Released 19th September 2010
Updated
Licensing GPLv3
P. Language C++
Platforms Linux
Interface
Game Length
Official site of Traction Edge




Story

Pulled from the comfortable surroundings of your village constabulary and recruited into a shadowy government agency, you are drawn into an inexplicable mystery of disappearing townsfolk and strange sentient mechanical contraptions. Slowly you uncover a sinister plot that appears to have no aim nor instigators. Who is behind these atrocities in Victorian England? and what actually is the Traction Edge?

Features

Implemented;

  • Steampunk setting
  • Squad based Xcom-style combat with roguelike elements
  • Story driven static maps
  • Destructable terrain
  • Reaction fire

Planned;

  • Skill based progression system
  • Procedural maps interspersing the story arc
  • Tech tree and research system

Development

Traction Edge was first released for 2010 ARRP for MacOSX and Linux source. Closed systems are now abandoned and development is for open source systems only.