The Trance
INVESTIGATE THE TRANCE
The Trance is a multiplayer sandbox survival horror with options for solo, co-op, and PVP. Play as the Aurora as he wanders a ruined, near-abandoned world, and try to get to the bottom of the Trance Phenomenon. But you can carry out any investigation of the Trance, you must first survive the Trance. Water is easy enough; food, harder, requiring scavenging or trading; but sleep, nearly impossible when it’s something you’re desperate to avoid. No one enjoys the prospect of closing their eyes and never waking again, after all. If you can manage to survive the world in which the Trance holds dominion, you are left with the choice of what kind of person you will be as you plunge the depths of the mystery.
Can you get to the bottom of whatever is happening before the difficulties of survival, the Sandmen, or your own guilt catch up with you?
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ABOUT
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Not only do you have to worry about food and water and hostile entities, but you have to deal with the perils of the Trance, the sleep from which you will not wake should you fall prey to it. Depending on where you sleep, you could wind up kidnapped or lose items to theft. As if that's not enough, you will also have to contend with the Break and your own guilt.
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Because sleep risks falling prey to the Trance, it's something to be desperately avoided. Various drugs and stimulants exist to ward off your fatigue. But fatigue will build up over time regardless, and eventually you will have to sleep. When you do, you must conquer a progressively more difficult mini-game to wake again.
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So life is hard. It's harder still when society is the brink of collapse. People will do ugly things for survival, and you may be one of them. But be careful of what sort of karma you accrue. If your guilt proves too overwhelming, you'll suffer irreparable psychological damage and wind up ending things yourself instead of waiting for the Trance to get you. Which faction you choose to associate with dictates the accrual of your guilt, as well as the level violence you can use against your enemies.
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The Break introduces even more environmental dangers. The lighting across the city will change, and your own flashlight will alert hostiles to your location. Brown-outs attract enemies while complete black-outs will summon a living darkness. The Break also causes parallel timelines to bleed into one another, leading to phenomena such as item phase shifting, supernatural attacks, and invasions from other players.
FEATURES
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PC
English
FAQs
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The Trance is a sandbox survival horror game that can be played either solo or with multiple people, either in co-op or PVP. It’s like if Tony Hawk was crossed with survival mode Fallout.
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For now, the only platform The Trance is being developed for is PC. It will be available through Steam and Epic Games Store.
The game is currently in pre-production with the concept, story, and mechanics essentially built out. It is ready-to-code. The release date is yet to be decided. -
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