The Isofarian Guard is a story-driven game designed for 1-2 players.

Welcome to Isofar, a wild land severe in its beauty. The Isofarian people take great pride in their ability to flourish among the hostile wildlife and cruel elements of their mountainous home. As a member of the Isofarian guard, life is never dull. You try to keep the peace among your fellow Isofarians (a never-ending job), as well as deal with constant threats from the aggressive Falmund Empire to the south.

But now, the old patterns are shifting. New forces are at work that will challenge the very underpinnings of reality. You will guide eight different Isofarian Guards throughout 5 interweaving campaigns as they deal with a power that threatens not only Isofar, but the entire world.

A Compass Chip means you’ve found an open road. Place a purple cube on the region's event deck. Once three cubes are on the deck you’ll start a field event. There are four different regions and 160 events to discover!

A Skull Chip means you’ve found an enemy in the wild!

The battle phase then begins against enemies found at that location. There are three unique enemy encounters at each node.

Once in battle, you’ll utilize the bag building system. Draw chips from each of the Guards’ bags and activate various abilities while balancing your resources to defeat the enemies.

In each campaign you’ll control two Guards, and the story is written from their perspective. When playing co-op, you’ll frequently add helpful chips to each other’s chip bags as there’s plenty of synergy and decision making between players.

After the Guards have completed their turns the enemies begin their turns. Each enemy has an AI deck of eight cards. When an enemy AI card is drawn, abilities are performed from top to bottom and abilities are activated as long as the enemy has enough action points to perform them. Some enemies can even add negative chips to your Guards’ bags which trigger effects when they are drawn!

When enemies are defeated, you’ll obtain helpful materials which you can use to craft powerful new equipment. You’ll also obtain ‘Lux Essence’ which acts as a communal pool of experience for the Guards to become stronger. You’ll trade this in to unlock and add new chips to the Guards’ chip bags as well as new abilities to use in battle! Each Guard has a skill tree with unique unlockable upgrades. Since each Guard can only equip six ability cards at a time, you’ll need to customize them to suit your playstyle.

When you’d like to progress the story you’ll move the Guards to a narrative chip to begin the narrative phase. You’ll either read the narrative from the campaign book, or listen to the scene with Forteller!

The Isofarian Guard has over 15+ hours of audio narration with 10 hours of orchestral music composed for each scene so the sound ebbs and flows with what’s happening in the story!

Check out the two videos below to listen to a couple scenes from the game!

When we began creating the vast world of Telios we wanted to make it come alive with music. Isofar, one of the countries in Telios is in the far northeastern area of the continent. There's a vast snowy mountainous area in the north and sweeping plains in the south. The music and sound of the people there had to have a distinct sound and feel.

So, we reached out to composer Satta Rojanagatanyoo to compose an orchestral score that would accompany the immersive voice acting that players would experience with Forteller!

Take a listen to the main theme of The Isofarian Guard featuring vocalist Julie Elven who has sung on games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Horizon Zero Dawn and more!

When you’re not battling against enemies in the wild, you’ll have a multitude of other content to discover during your adventures across Isofar.

Visit the blacksmiths and marketplaces at each city to craft new equipment and purchase new items to survive on the road. Rest at the various Inns and help the inhabitants of Isofar by completing Bounty Quests posted there.

Early in the story you’ll arrive at Fort Istra, which will be the home base for the Guards. You can rebuild this fort to unlock new game systems and mechanics which will aid you in your quest! Each time a building is built and upgraded you’ll place the building's puzzle piece in the fort’s map.

In The Isofarian Guard you can play as long as you’d like for each session. When you’re done, you’ll use the Game Trayz system to simply snap the lid over the components, holding them in place until you decide to play again. Setup and teardown only takes 10 minutes!

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