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Press release:
Indie debut game FAR: Lone Sails lifts anchor on May 17, 2018. Along with the release of the atmospheric vehicle adventure game, a digital artbook and digital soundtrack will be available in stores as separate DLCs or bundled with the game in a digital collector’s edition.

The digital artbook of Far: Lone Sails consists of 37 pages full of concept art, sketches and 3D models of the most remarkable characters, buildings, and landscapes from the game. It will also reveal more of the game’s backstory.

FAR: Lone Sails’ Creative Lead Don Schmocker drew inspiration from a wide variety of works. Stephen Biesty’s “Incredible Cross-Sections” was a major source of inspiration, as well as Theo Jansen’s “Strandbeest”. Movies like “Das Boot” or “Mad Max II” and games like “Journey” influenced the game’s art style and concept.

The game’s world is almost completely devoid of life, which leaves the players feeling lost. Its art style emphasizes this feeling of loneliness by making use of scale: A tiny character passes by enormous wrecks; remnants of days long past are scattered throughout vast and barren landscapes that the players need to travel across. The limited color palette with different shades of grey, red, and blue, creates a cloudy, lonely, and sometimes even eerie, atmosphere.

Music plays an integral part in creating the subdued atmosphere in FAR: Lone Sails, as well. To let players dive deep into the game’s mood acoustically, its evocative orchestral score will also be available as a digital download. Composer and sound designer Joel Schoch recorded 21 original tracks along with a group of orchestral musicians. That makes for about 53 extra minutes of dwelling in the game’s musical world.

Both DLCs will be available separately or bundled with the game as digital collector’s edition. Both the game and the DLCs will be available on Steam, GOG.com, and the Humble Store from May 17, 2018.

Links:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/609320/FAR_Lone_Sails/
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/far-lone-sails
Demo-Track on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mixtvision/half-far-lone-sails-original-soundtrack-teaser-track

Prices
Digital Artbook: 2.99 $
Digital Soundtrack: 4.99 $

About the game
FAR: Lone Sails is a vehicle adventure game, developed by Swiss studio Okomotive. In a unique hybrid of ship and train you travel across an ocean-turned desert following the tracks of a once flourishing civilization. FAR: Lone Sails takes you into a post-apocalyptic, yet zombie-free world: It’s just you and your machine vs. the big nothing.
OST Tracklist

01. Coloured Engine (03:58)
02. My Friend. Sail. (03:42)
03. Light On (01:28)
04. Bridge (01:34)
05. Rain. Storm. Thunder. (01:42)
06. Night (02:58)
07. First Glimpse (02:05)
08. More to See (01:58)
09. Not Alone (03:30)
10. Inconvenient Circumstances (04:30)
11. Sun. Down. (03:24)
12. Swamptown (02:30)
13. Empty, Busy Construction Site (03:28)
14. Explore it! (02:40)
15. Drive it! (01:52)
16. Still Driving. (00:50)
17. Cave Mashup (03:13)
18. Warmth in the Cold (00:45)
19. Disorientated (02:02)
20. Half (02:30)
21. Lone Sails (02:20)
OST Artists

Joel Schoch – Composition & FX, Piano, Rhodes piano, Synth, All sort of little and big Percussion, Ukulele, Guitar, Mandolin, Bouzouki
David Germann – Soprano-, Alto-, & Tenor saxophone
Fortunat Häfliger – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Joe Flüeler – Cello
Hannah Adriana Müller – Violin, Voice
Hanspeter Schoch – Contrabass
Remo Schluep – Guitar
David Hohl – Mandolin
Companies

Okomotive is an indie game studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2017 by Don Schmocker and Goran Saric, Okomotive has been working on its debut game FAR: Lone Sails. Mixtvision is a multi award-winning media production and publishing house founded in 2006 and based in Munich, Germany.