You have been invited to stay in Transylvania for the summer… Only to find out that you come from a long line of witches. Meet your new vampyre and strigoi classmates, embrace your destiny, and enroll in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick! A supernatural adventure made in Transylvania.

Near-Mage is a narrative-heavy adventure game with a bit of role-playing DNA that aims to appeal to hardcore players of the genre and newcomers alike.

Meet Illy Vraja – You’re Illy Vraja, a teenager at a crossroads in her life who gets invited to Transylvania by her mysterious Great-Aunt, Domnica, only to find out she comes from a long line of witches, and is entitled to enroll in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick!
Study Magick – As a Near-Mage, you are entering a summer preparatory school, hoping to graduate into a full-fledged spell caster. You’ll take classes in different types of Magick and see how you can use your growing powers to affect the lives of those you come across.
Made in Transylvania – We are from Transylvania, Romania ourselves, so we’re doing a deep dive into its rich lore, legends and superstitions, heavily drawing on them in creating Near-Mage’s dark and colorful world. Travel freely between three main hubs: the real-life town of Sighișoara, the mythical town of Rakus, that lies beyond a Magickal veil and cannot be seen by most, and the Transylvanian Institute for Magick. Near-Mage will allow for a lot of freedom when approaching the situations you’ll encounter within the Transylvanian Institute for Magick and its surroundings. When it comes to spell-crafting, you can choose what type of classes you’re taking on a whim, or you can look up recipes in a spellbook and strategize your build.

This build variety will in turn lead to different outcomes for some quest lines, affect certain NPCs’ fates, and result in high replayability. Maybe you’ve erased an NPC’s memory on your first play-through. What if you used a different spell on them this time around… or no spell at all?

You’ll be able to play Near-Mage as a point and click, or you can control the character directly. Walk to your objectives, run at full speed, or even fly there!

Make friends or enemies with fellow students, learn to be closer to your Magickal calling, and lift the veil off of ancient mysteries in Near-Mage!

Game Features

• Study spell crafting in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick as a Near-Mage.
• Experience a deep and engaging story that plays like an adventure game.
• Craft your own spell inventory, use it with different results in every play-through.
• Dozens of vampyres, pricolitch, moroi, strigoi, ghouls, shtima – your spells change their lives for better or worse.
• Hand-painted in glorious 4K and traditionally animated frame-by-frame.
• Dozens of itemized outfits and hairstyles to customize your main character.
• A game about Transylvania made by Transylvanians!

As Kulebra you’ll explore Limbo, a vibrant, Latin American flavored afterlife full of danger, intrigue, humor, sneakery, and deep, dark mystery. You’ll be using many tricks and skills to help the colourful (literally) residents of Limbo accept and embrace their issues of loss, trauma, and the consequences of not letting go as they repeat their days again, and again.

A keen eye, sharp wits, sneakery, and good old-fashioned detective work will be required to accomplish your tasks. But you’re a Bright Soul. It’s what you are called to do, because untangling an afterlife is no easy feat, especially when you don’t have feet.

BECAUSE YOU’RE A SNAKE!

Game Features

• AN EMOTIONAL AND WHIMSICAL JOURNEY – Death is not the end of delight. From the colours to the characters, this wonderful and fantastic journey through Limbo is woven with humour and lighthearted fun. Mystery, puzzles, exploration and joy await Kulebra.
• DIG INTO THE MYSTERIOUS LIMBO – Perfect for beginner and veteran adventure game fans alike, Kulebra combines classic adventure gameplay with modern sensibilities. Light action and stealth sequences mix up traditional adventure game play, giving Kulebra a quicker pace! Clues discovered in conversation, exploration, and puzzle solving will help you discover the deeper mysteries of the citizens of Limbo… and of Limbo itself, but you don’t need to remember everything. Your handy notebook is always available to you to reference, even in the most tense situations.
• TIME IS A CYCLE – BUT NOT FOR YOU – Day, Afternoon, and Evening. The Citizens of Limbo are trapped in a moment of their lives. The sun rises and sets as they go through the same motions every day. As a Bright Soul you remember everything. You are able to advance the day cycle on your own in order to dig down into the mystery of why these souls are trapped. Use the patterns you discover and what you learn to change the world, mark their souls, and create lasting, meaningful change.
• THE DEAD HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE – A host of wonderful spirits, entities, and other creatures besides, inhabit Limbo. Limbo is filled with character and characters. There are brilliant allies to aid and guide you, spirits will engage you in spirited conversations, native entities with their own feelings about the dead, and others have deeper and darker motivations. It’s up to you to find out which is which and who is who.
• MARKED AND MEANINGFUL CHANGE – Kulebra is a unique type of entity in this world, a Bright Soul. While you are counted among the dead, you are one of the few who have the unique ability to change the cycles many of the dead find themselves in. Through conversation, discovery, empathy, and some snooping around, you can mark the souls of the dead, helping them overcome what keeps them trapped, and eventually move on. You can help the Souls of Limbo create actual and lasting change.