This game is in OPEN BETA/EARLY ACCESS. Talk about the game, play or run games, and provide feedback to the official Gubat Banwa Discord. Learn about what being in early access means below.
The archipelago of never ending war...
Sorrowsong, sorrowsong, that song without end.
Rejoice in the glory of combat, may we never know peace:
GUBAT BANWA!
GUBAT BANWA is a tactical martial arts and war drama roleplaying game set in a heroic fantasy setting inspired by Classical Philippines.
You play as Kadungganan, the elite warrior-braves that hail from the manggugubat warrior caste, who enjoy prestige and regard oftentimes higher than their noble counterparts. As a Kadungganan, your hands are bloody, your soul flecked by violence, and you must find a reason why you fight.
It is tactical martial arts because it is inspired by Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Fire Emblem, RWBY, Dungeons and Dragons 4e, Exalted, Sengoku Basara, and wuxia novels, which place great emphasis on team roles, synergy, positioning, the joy of movement, and emergent strategy.
It is war drama because it is is not about delving into dungeons, getting loot and money and getting stronger. It’s about being forced to kill your closest loved one in the middle of a blood-stained sea in the midst of a storm because they serve a datu that blasphemed your sultan. As a war-drama roleplaying game, expect an emphasis on relationships with other warriors, with your loved one, and intense interpolity politics with the other polities. Gubat Banwa expects you to play into these melodramas: sons having to kill their fathers for defecting to an enemy polity, daughters having to flee to the mountains to escape misogynistic responsibilities, loved ones killing each other slowly due to orders and/or emotions, best friends dueling at the top of a mountain in the midst of a storm as their ideologies bring them to a head. This features systems of game that focus on action and consequence, with a d8 dice pool system meant to invoke the casting of lots with crocodile's teeth that Precolonial Filipinos would do.
This game is made for war stories, the likes one would see in Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre. It’s about being forced to kill your closest loved one in the middle of a blood-stained sea in the midst of a storm because they serve a Datu that blasphemed your Sultan. War Drama narrative mechanics make sure that violence happens inevitably, in one way or another, all threads intertwining and coming to a head with tactical combat.
Violence is the only answer, Kitatak says, and so it has been since the beginning of time.
For the islands were born in conflict and so shall it perish. Rejoice in the glory of combat.
In this game, the goal is to have...
- ...war drama and interpersonal relationship mechanics.
- ...stylish tactical combat, that has fictional inspirations from RWBY and Devil May Cry, but mechanical inspirations from Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and Fire Emblem (remember those Critical pixel animations?).
- ...a split between missions (Ventures) and downtime (Respite) drive the flow of combat of Gubat Banwa.
- ...a setting inspired wholly by an Uncolonized Late Porcelain Period Philippines and even some of Early Spanish Philippines, made to facilitate war narratives across the warring states of Kitatak.
- ...all you need to run war story Ventures in said setting!
Early Access
Being in open beta or early access, the game is still in development and will be getting new updates and more. If you pay for the game now, you'll receive all the updates in the future, eventually until the game is released! By supporting the project, the funds go into art and more game design, allowing for more character options and even more content for the game!
Note: Please also keep in mind that not all art has been installed yet! Look forward to updates! Thank you.
There are community copies that will be constantly refreshed for those that don't want to pay for Early Access. However, rest assured that every cent that is dropped here goes into paying for more art to bring Kitatak to life.
Heaven Moves Without You Series
If you wish to dive deeper into the lore and setting of Gubat Banwa, consider checking out Stars Without Brightness, a a Fantasy novel set in Kitatak, following a skilled spirit medium, a hotheaded warrior, a rebellious prince, a princess turned flesh-eater, a revived swordsman, and a passionate monster in their quest to fulfill orders and duty, facing the truth of war and violence.
The river flows.
Price: $20.00
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