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Press release:
Nantes, France, May 24th, 2022.
Indie developer Alkemi in partnership with Dear Villagers have revealed the new gameplay trailer for their upcoming narrative-driven card game “Foretales“.

They are also proud to announce that Foretales will participate in both the press and public Steam Next Fest events, from June 13th at 10am PST to June 20th at 10am PST, where a playable demo will be available.

Foretales is an ingenious narrative adventure that twists the card game genre with its “decksploration” mechanic that allows players to deal their own adventure.

In Foretales, play as Volepain, an avian small-time thief who assembles a party of anthropomorphic characters, including the tiger archer Léo, the gorilla Karst, the elephant Isabeau, and the parrot Pattenbois, in an attempt to save the collapsing world doomed by a dark prophecy.

Each companion you team up with comes with unique skills and consumable cards to forge your path through a wide variety of scripted encounters and challenges. Whether you approach a scenario by using stealth, creating a ruse, making a trade or engaging in good old-fashioned fisticuffs is up to you.

With every decision comes a different outcome, so play through Foretales to discover previously hidden secrets, new solutions to puzzles and different narrative endings. Play your cards right and potentially save the world!

Foretales’ tabletop and CCG inspired gameplay is brought to life through gorgeous illustrative art that recalls the classic 2D animation of Disney’s golden era.

The atmosphere is enhanced through a soundtrack by the legendary composer Christophe Héral (Beyond Good & Evil, Rayman Legends), accompanied by prolific character actor Travis Willingham (whose IMDB profile is so vast we wouldn’t even know where to begin), who offers his esteemed vocal talents as Foretales’ narrator.

For more information on Foretales:
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170080/Foretales/
Follow Foretales on Twitter: https://twitter.com/foretales_game
Follow Foretales on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foretalesgame/
Visit the Alkemi website: https://www.alkemi-games.com

About Alkemi:
Founded in 2011, Alkemi is a small team of craft people making their own games and other visual products. The studio focuses on medium sized, polished games, with an emphasis on making unique titles that are unlike anything else out there.

Its previous works include the horizontal-scrolling shmup / RPG hybrid Drifting Lands, as well as the twin-stick shooter / match-3 mashup Transcripted. Alkemi is now working on its most ambitious title yet with the upcoming narrative-based card game Foretales, due in 2022.

About Dear Villagers:
Dear Villagers is a publishing label of Plug In Digital. It’s a place where talented studios can unleash their creativity and focus on bringing unique single player experiences to players on PC and console, experiences that will stay with them long after the credits roll.

Dear Villager’s lineup includes the award-winning The Forgotten City, The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk, ScourgeBringer and Edge Of Eternity.