The Tribe Must Survive News

Dear Tribe Leaders,

The time has come for a new playtest for The Tribe Must Survive! This Playtest has begun today at 3pm CET and will continue until Sunday the 3rd of December!

How To Join the Playtest
In order to participate in this playtest, simply follow this link and join the TTMS Discord channel and you will be sent a key! If you took part in the Alpha test, you are already good to go!

In this playtest, we want to focus on the following features of the game:

Disasters
For the unprepared Tribe, any number of things can lead the Tribe into a downward spiral, chief among them, Disasters can mean a rapid and horrific end. The Tribe Must Survive consists of several Acts, each Act will culminate with a new Disaster for the Tribe to face. In this playtest, you will face disasters like the eclipse, flood or locusts. Once the Tribe survives a Disaster, the next Act will begin introducing new mechanics and content to unlock. It will be up to you to, predict and prepare for Disasters, adapting your strategy to overcome all that stands between the Tribe and survival!

Speaking of Disasters - what type of disasters would you like to see in the future?

Perks
A Journey is a feature in which the players send Tribe Members into the “Outer World” with the goal of exploring new areas of the map in the hope of bringing back great rewards, including things like resources or perks. The nature of The Tribe Must Survive means that different rewards will be given each time, challenging you as a Tribe Leader to make the right call. Each playthrough the perks that you are offered will change, so no one Tribe will feel the same.

Events
Throughout The Tribe Must Survive, you will face several different types of strategic decision-making, in addition to the regular Tribe-management.

Let us know if there are any particular types of events you would like to see being added!

Rogue-like elements of the game
The Tribe Must Survive is a game that will offer you a challenge - do not expect your first Tribe to survive on the first try! There are many rogue-like elements of the game that you will need to understand over time through trial and error - with potential fatal consequences for your Tribe. While luck is indeed a factor, your skill as a Tribe Leader will ultimately be the thing that matters most. Many different strategies can lead to success, it’s about finding what the right one is for you, your current circumstances and your tribe.

If you already haven’t, make sure to join our TTMS DIscord server, where we will share more information and you can get directly involved in the discussions.

Good luck out there, and remember - The Tribe Must Survive!

Hello aspiring Tribe Leaders.

Today, we wanted to give you a deeper look into the Tribe Members themselves. On the outside, they are hardy survivors in a harsh and mysterious world, but underneath there are several gameplay systems that make each Tribe Member distinct. With these, we want to create emerging group dynamics that will result in a wide range of situations, so that no two playthroughs feel exactly the same.


The mental state of each Tribe Member is guided by their Needs, Discontent and Fear. The Needs consist of Food, Sleep, Social and Spiritual. Each can be satisfied through different means, which requires you to manage your Tribe and prioritize its production accordingly. Failure to satisfy a Need may lead to punishing Events, but they also feed into the Tribe’s Discontent. Fear, on the other hand, is increased through time spent in Darkness or other traumatic events.

High Discontent and Fear can become a big problem for the Tribe by leading to behaviors such as Riot, Shock, or Tribe Members leaving the Tribe. To avoid this, you will need to keep satisfying the Tribe Members’ Needs and decrease their Fear by ensuring your Fires burn bright enough.




Tribe Members are mostly autonomous. You can assign them to buildings and influence them in other ways, but overall they will do what they want. Their behavior is guided by many factors, most importantly by their Needs and personalities. Behaviors also have an impact on the Tribe Members’ opinions and the Factions that will emerge based on them.




Each Tribe Member spawns with their own Personality Trait values. These Personality Traits are Openness to Experience, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Each is given a value between -3 and 3.

The resulting 16000 combinations make it so that each Tribe Member behaves uniquely and has a set of potential strengths and weaknesses. For example, the right combination of Traits might earn them a valuable Perk or trigger an Event. Personality Traits are also critical in determining which Faction Opinions will emerge within the Tribe. Though the Traits are assigned randomly, you may find ways to manipulate them, and thus affect the direction of your Tribe.




Another fully automatic behavior type is the Interactions. Tribe Members will interact with each other based on proximity, their personal preferences, and other factors. The result of the Interaction, whether negative or positive, will affect Tribe Members’ opinion both on each other and the ideas they hold.

If enough Tribe Members gain strong opinions on a certain set of ideas, they form a Faction. Factions will emerge naturally as the Tribe grows, and with this, there is the possibility of an Inner Conflict happening. Inner Conflicts pit two opposing Factions against each other in a struggle for power and survival. Your choices and the makeup of your Tribe will determine the result of the Inner Conflict, which can significantly alter the rest of your playthrough.



You can discover the depths of these features and learn to understand your Tribe once the game releases. For this, remember to wishlist The Tribe Must Survive on Steam, and click the Follow button on the store page to receive notifications about our announcements.

Feel free to also share your thoughts about the features! You can do it here or on our TTMS Discord server, where we will share more information and you can get directly involved in the discussions.

And remember; whatever it takes... The Tribe Must Survive!

Hello aspiring Tribe Leaders.

We hope you enjoyed the Playtest Alpha we released last month! Our development team is already back in the midst of expanding the game and its content. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you our vision for the world of The Tribe Must Survive, giving you a taste of what you can experience with the full game!




The Tribe Must Survive takes place at the dawn of humanity, when the natural phenomena were beyond our comprehension. Thus, the Tribe Members rely on stories and legends to explain them. These stories might conflict with each other, and the line between natural and supernatural is often blurry. You cannot always be sure if the threat you are facing is natural, supernatural, or born out of sheer madness!

Though the game is set far in the past, its world already has an extensive history. Great cities have crumbled. Wondrous beings have fallen to extinction. Dire warnings have faded from memory. The cycle of destruction and birth keeps repeating itself. By exploring the world, you will find pieces of these histories, and perhaps learn to better understand what you are facing against.

The gameworld is strongly inspired by the cosmic horror genre; worlds inhabited by beings whose true nature is too immense and horrifying for us to comprehend. You can expect to witness hints of these beings in the game, since even if they cannot be understood by mortal minds, their mere presence will inevitably impact the world.




Of course, living in such an unforgiving world has left its mark on the Tribe. These are tough, stoic people, whose lives have been defined by hardship and horror. Yet they go on, refusing to die.

To that end, anything is justified, and different opinions will give birth to Factions and Conflict. Keeping the Tribe united will require careful balancing, or you might be forced to sacrifice one Faction for the sake of another. Whatever the case, chaos must be contained. Because if the Tribe ends up tearing itself apart, there is little hope for survival.

Whether it be through technology, mysticism or iron-clad ideologies, the Tribe Members are determined to push back the Darkness. It will be up to you to decide which tools you want to rely on.




Among the many strange beings of this world, there are also those the Tribe believes to be their Gods. Their true nature is unknown. Some even question their existence altogether, claiming them to be nothing more than hallucinations of the Tribe’s collective psyche.

Those who have chosen to follow these Gods seem to be willing to do anything to gain their favors. What this might ultimately lead to, no one can tell. Do the zealots truly believe that their God will bring salvation, or are they using these beliefs to gain what they want?

Only one thing is clear: as the Tribe’s belief in a God grows stronger, so does their power.



That's it for now! Stay tuned for further development updates, and share your thoughts on what topics you'd like us to cover in the future. And remember to wishlist The Tribe Must Survive on Steam, and click the Follow button on the store page to receive notifications about our announcements.

You can also join our TTMS Discord server, where we will share more information and you can get directly involved in the discussions.

And remember; whatever it takes... The Tribe Must Survive!

Hello Tribe Leaders,

Today we wanted to introduce the people behind the scenes of the game and start things off by giving you some insights to the process of making The Tribe Must Survive! While the game is published by Starbreeze in Sweden, the development team is based in the southern part of Germany, and consists of a small group of passionate individuals who are bringing you the cozy braniac experience of TTMS.



[h3]🎩 Simon - Project Management and Design[/h3]
"Hi, I am Simon! I oversee the production and the vision. So I am basically talking with everybody all the time, focusing on making the gameplay fun and helping to get things done."

[h3]💻 Georg - Developer[/h3]
"My name is Georg and I work on all the technical aspects of our game."

[h3]💻 Alexander - Developer[/h3]
"Hey, I’m Alex! I am one of the devs and I mostly work on the technical stuff in our game 🙂 (Unless you encounter a bug. In that case, I am an artist working on the game and my name is not Alex)."

[h3]🎨 Norbert - Art[/h3]
"Hey! My name is Norbert and I draw/paint things that get put into the game!"

[h3]🧠 Steffen - Design[/h3]
"Hi, I’m Steffen and I turn food into pixels. Chonky, fun pixels. At Walking Tree Games, I’m responsible for game & system design. I also do pixel art as my side gig. 😃"

[h3]📝 Niko - Narrative & Design[/h3]
"Hello! My name is Niko, and I do content design, writing, and narrative stuff for The Tribe Must Survive. Before joining the team, I studied literature, creative writing and media studies, and worked as a freelancer on multiple game projects."

These names will become more recognizable as we start to talk more about the development of the game. But you don't have to stop there, join the conversations about TTMS on the official community Discord!

Any and all feedback is appreciated for the game, so get in there and tell us what you think!
And remember; whatever it takes... The Tribe Must Survive!

//SBZ_Elisabeth

Hello Tribe Leaders,

With the Alpha playtest coming to an end, we want to thank everyone who took part and provided us with their feedback! Your opinion is incredibly important to us. We already did a number of changes you suggested in the patches we released over the past 2 weeks and will continue to do so.

For now we are switching back to expanding the game and its content, but we will keep you in the loop and give you updates on the development process frequently. So keep an eye on our Discord server and Steam page to make sure you don’t miss any future news or playtests!

And remember; whatever it takes... The Tribe Must Survive!

//SBZ_Elisabeth