Earthlock: Festival of Magic

About

Earthlock: Festival of Magic is a turn-based RPG with strategy and puzzle elements set in a fractured world where magic and machinery collide. You play as Amon, a scavenger navigating a planet split between scorching sun and eternal winter. The story unfolds through exploration, base building, and tactical battles as you gather allies, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover ancient secrets. Combat layers resource management with positioning, requiring you to balance spells, gadgets, and terrain to outwit enemies. Between fights, you manage an island base, cultivating resources and upgrading tools to aid your journey across deserts, oceans, and frozen tundras. The game’s strength lies in its fusion of old-school tactical gameplay with a distinct aesthetic blending steampunk and sorcery. The world’s duality, sunbaked ruins versus icy tombs, creates varied challenges and visuals that stand out in the genre. Players praise the depth of its systems, particularly how scavenged tech and magical relics interact in both combat and exploration. While the pacing can lag in later acts, the mid-game balance of action and strategy keeps engagement high. Community reports highlight the satisfaction of piecing together Umbra’s lore through environmental storytelling and relic hunting, making it a niche pick for fans of methodical, lore-driven adventures.

Storyline

Long ago, a cataclysmic event struck the magical world of Umbra. Suddenly and mysteriously the planet stopped spinning. Volcanoes awoke and oceans moved. Kingdoms and civilizations were buried or drowned. Soon, the scourging sun took hold of one side of the world, while dark winter seized the other. Today the glory and might of the old world is buried and the only habitable region can be found in between. The evidence of Umbra’s past lies scattered about as ruins, treasures and artifacts. In the new world, rebuilt but far from as advanced as the old one, archaeologists and scavengers supply the rich and powerful with ancient technology and magical artifacts exhumed from ice, sea and sand. It is a world divided by those who dabble in magic and those who tinker with technology. You start off as Amon, an audacious scavenger from a small desert town, who gets embroiled in a treacherous conflict between the mighty Suvian Empire and those who want to bring Suvia down. Your quest for peace will take you to the corners of the world to unlock the secrets of Umbra’s mysterious, catastrophic past. Along the way you’ll explore oceans, vast deserts and snow-buried lands, rebuild your island base, gather seeds to sow and harvest ammo, get more allies to join your quest, crack puzzles and overcome fierce monsters.