Yaga

Yaga is an action role-playing game developed by Breadcrumbs Interactive and published by Versus Evil. It was planned to be released in 2019, but rescheduled to a release in 2020. The game was eventually released on January 12, 2021.

Description
Play as Ivan, a one-handed blacksmith cursed with incredibly bad luck.

Ivan is caught between a Tzar giving him impossible tasks, a mysterious witch who wants to manipulate him, and his grandma who wants him to find a wife.

Start your journey in an action RPG where the story and characters react to the way you roleplay your character.

Story
In the quiet village where the story starts, peasants are always busy with working their grain fields, taking care of their animals, and keeping their children from going in the swamps. Ordinary people leading ordinary lives. Except for Ivan, the village’s blacksmith, who works hard in his forge all day, preparing to go on yet another impossible quest given by the Tzar. Little does Ivan know that all the tasks he receives from the Tzar threaten to weaken and destroy the ancient spirits and magical creatures that roam the world. But Baba Yaga plans to protect those spirits. She keeps a watchful eye on Ivan, and instead of simply destroying him and risking him being replaced by another, she tries to gently manipulate him to avoid disaster and meet her goals.

It’s a story about greed, manipulation and dealing with impossible odds.

The game takes place in the universe of Slavic folktales. It's a 14th-century world as seen through the eyes of Eastern European peasants: filled with pagan belief, house spirits, unclean creatures, superstition and magic. As in folktales, the mood of the world is light-hearted, the peasants use humor and hope in the face of hardships and misfortune.

One feature of slavic oral storytelling is that a folktale is different each time it is told. Even if the basic plot and story usually follow the same heroic theme, the details of characters, their roles, obstacles and means to overcome them are usually freely modified to suit the style of the narrator, the hero or of the audience. Yaga tries to take advantage of that and generates stories in the context presented above, using what we call adaptive narrative.

Features

 * Building a reputation through roleplaying results in different interactions with villagers and Characters, unlocking secrets, trading options, or bestowing game-changing curses or blessings upon the player character.
 * Pagan beliefs and superstitions are key to unlocking hidden secrets, getting house spirits on your side, or avoiding the powerful curses of unclean creatures.
 * Fateful Crossroads between levels allow the player to influence the difficulty, challenge and level generation of the game
 * Discover and combine lots of talismans and artifacts that change the player's abilities and the gameplay
 * Craft and upgrade an arsenal of weapons and tools to aid you in your journeys.
 * Unique Soundtrack featuring underground folklore band Subcarpați.

Languages

 * English
 * French
 * German
 * Spanish
 * Russian
 * Italian
 * Polish
 * Simplified Chinese

Only language with full audio is English, the others: subtitles and interface only.

Developers
Yaga is created by Breadcrumbs Interactive hailing from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The studio was founded in 2016.