Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Teaser Trailer

Back in May, the roguelite Tainted Grail: Conquest graduated from early access, allowing Awaken Realms Digital to focus their efforts on Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon – the story-driven part of this deckbuilding RPG adapted from a popular board game.

However, this new announcement now suggests that The Fall of Avalon might end up a much bigger project than originally anticipated. And what’s even more curious, the whole deckbuilding thing is now nowhere to be found in the game’s description. Instead it’s now positioned as a real open-world RPG.

So, here’s a quick teaser trailer:

And the whole big announcement:

Hello everyone! You already know what’s coming in today’s update, right? 😉

Yes, we’re finally ready to show you bits and pieces of what we’ve been working on since we’ve wrapped up most of the development related to Conquest!

But before we get to the main part of today’s update, let us say this: thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your faith and support. It’s absolutely mind-blowing that so many of you played and enjoyed Conquest! That our first game as a studio was able to grab your attention and that you’ve been so kind that we’re staying between 90-92% positive reviews on Steam. And, let’s be honest here, YOUR opinions are the only ones that matter.

That said, we’re sorry to say that we won’t be able to bring more content to Conquest this year — we’re planning a patch for Q1 2022 (and at least one big surprise related to the game). Still, we hope that you’ll understand why we couldn’t work on more stuff related to Conquest when you check out the things we’ve prepared for you today…

And what we prepared is the very first look at Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

Some of you were pretty impatient. Some even called it abandonware — but we’d like to tell you that… Well, certain things take time. If we were a “normal” game development studio, we wouldn’t say a word about this game for at least another six months. We’d work on scheduling the announcement for some big event and whatnot.

But we just feel that we owe it to you, the players, to say what’s happening — after all, it’s your passion and support that makes it all possible. Here’s our winter holiday gift for y’all 🙂

So, without further ado, we’re really excited and terrified now… but here goes the teaser —

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So… Yes! Everything about the game’s presentation has changed.

At the same time: no, we’re not changing the game’s core. Tainted Grail will be a dark fantasy epic full of meaningful choices. Only now we’re able to make it even bigger and better than ever before.

Our goals for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon were always pretty simple: we want to honor the choices of our players and give them as much freedom as we possibly can.

We want you to be able to customize your character, live with the consequences of your in-game choices, and let you play the game any way you want. We want this game to be a proper RPG — at least our first foray into this territory. We’re pretty sure we’re not going to succeed with everything we want to do! 😀

This means that we’re not following the storyline of the board game, and we’re not making you play as characters from the board game. It’s up to you who you want to be in the world of Tainted Grail and how you will decide to handle the problems you’ll face.

And yes, what you see now is precisely the game we always dreamt about making but its scope… made us wonder whether we can make it.

But right now… we’re really optimistic that we will. So what you see in this teaser — and we’re going to show longer shots here and on our Discord — is just the start of our journey and we want to put so much more love into this game!

This means that we’re currently in the really early stages of development: we have first versions of plenty of mechanics and systems, but not many of them “feel right” yet. That’s going to take a while. But we just couldn’t wait to show you bits and pieces of what we already have so that you know what’s happening with the game!

And yes, even though the game’s changed a lot and is a much bigger project than anybody anticipated, we’re not changing the deal we’ve had with you. So all who bought Conquest before the cut-off date (27th of November 2020 on Steam and a bit later on GOG.com) are still getting The Fall of Avalon for free.

One last thing — every screenshot you see here was taken straight from the editor, we didn’t touch any single one with Photoshop. The only “lie” is that they were taken in 4K resolution (but if someone has a monstrous machine they’d be able to get this quality). Obviously, though, we’re still so early in development that things may change! We’re doing all we can in order not to downgrade the quality of the visuals 🙂

In the upcoming months, we will be talking more about the game, what will be unique about it, and we’ll try to prepare you for (hopefully) an amazing, epic adventure in the dark world of Tainted Grail.

Our whole team is EXTREMELY hyped to create an unforgettable adventure and we hope you’d like to join us!