Odd Gods Revealed at PAX Australia

Melbourne, Australia-based developer Inn Between Worlds was on hand at this year’s PAX Australia to showcase a pre-alpha build of Odd Gods, a 1990s-set, time travel-themed, and turn-based CRPG that will have us controlling a party of “skateboarders, goths, ravers, jocks, and nerds” to take down “pop culture demons”. The demo raised enough eyebrows to prompt PC Gamer to put them on a list of the most promising indies from PAX Australia and get us some footage via Twitter, but since there aren’t any substantial previews to take in, I’ll leave you with the official description for now:

Odd Gods is a 90s-style RPG about the 1990s. An isometric tactical role playing game about subcultures, music, spacetime travel, and facing your pop culture demons.

Odd Gods is an indie cRPG in early development from Inn Between Worlds, a new studio formed by industry vets in Melbourne, Australia.

• There is no chosen one. A grungy, low fantasy story set at the end of the 1990s.
• Classic ‘isometric’ camera on 3D characters and scenes.

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• Colourful, ‘low budget B-Movie’ Art style.
• Subculture class system based on 1990s archetypes (Skateboarders, Goths, Ravers, Jocks, Nerds etc).
• Music Genre ‘alignment’ system (Mainstream, Alternative, Underground).
• Party-based turn-based combat system (‘Same Phase’ system with no RNG, no % to hit, just tactics).
• Narrative features branching paths and multiple endings.
• Hand-crafted exploration, narrative and combat content. No level-scaling, no procedural generation, no random encounters.
• Original subculture soundtrack recorded with period instruments (where possible).
• 90s-era difficulty. Odd Gods is not a game for the faint of heart, but the system is ‘fair’. Friendly fire is on by default. No bullet sponges. Permadeath, mostly.
• Take modern weapons back to older eras (Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern) and vice-versa, but keep an eye on your ammo count and penicillin, for example.
• …. No elves, no magic swords, orcs, or any of that guff.