| Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade | |
| Developer: | Lostwood Games |
| Publisher: | Lostwood Games |
| Series: | Leviathan |
| Engine: | Unity |
| Platforms: | Android, iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows |
| Released: | 2013 |
| Genre: | Adventure, visual novel |
| Modes: | Single-player |
Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade is an episodic adventure game developed and published by the Russian game studio Lostwood Games for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android platforms. The game includes five episodes, all available both in Russian and English, and by January 2016, four had been released in German.
The player reads through the story and makes decisions at certain points. The player has a variety of actions they can take during game play; these actions include befriending characters, collecting items, and traveling to different places. The player can buy items to unlock new options. Solving puzzles will progress the player through the story line. The player decides to take good or evil actions. Those actions will influence game play and lead to different endings.
The setting of Leviathan takes place in a dark fantasy world mixed with cyberpunk and alien technologies. The country is ravaged by a disease called "Decade", which is caused by the Plague King. The "Decade" afflicts the land at irregular intervals and lasts for 10 years. Oliver Vertran, the protagonist and main character, was a young boy when the "Decade" began. When his mother is murdered, he becomes the adopted son of her murderer. Oliver and his friends Kael and Darina, with the help of a Vargoille called Edna, seek to punish a guardian for killing his mother.
| Chapter | English release date | Languages | ||||
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| Episode I – "The First Day of the Decade" | August 10, 2013 | English, German, Russian | ||||
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| Episode II – Clues From the Past | August 10, 2013 | English, German, Russian | ||||
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| Episode III - "Being a Killer" | August 13, 2013 | English, German, Russian | ||||
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| Episode IV - "The Gift" | April 1, 2015 | English, German, Russian | ||||
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| Episode V - "The Last Day of the Decade" | 15 July 2015 | English, German, Russian | ||||
Lostwood Games started to develop the game in 2012. Andrey Kniazev, the leader of the Russian team that created the game, spent $150,000 to develop Leviathan. Due to the themes of homosexuality and the current state of LGBT rights in Russia, the team initially had a hard time finding a publisher. However, they did find a publisher for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita versions, but they lacked the money to make a port.[1] The game features an opening song, composed by Gleb Kolyadin and Mikhail Kotov, and performed by Nikita Valamin and Maryana Semkina.[2] The original Russian game has been translated into English and German. The German translations of the first two episodes were released in August 2013. In May 2014, they launched a crowdfunding project on Indiegogo to fund the final episode.[3] Funding failed with the game only receiving $195 of the $49,500 goal. Nonetheless, the still want to create the last episode and finish the translations for episode 4 and 5. The game was released on Steam on November 11, 2014.[4] In November 2015, they launched another crowdfunding project on Indiegogo with a goal of $2,000 in order to finish the English translation of the last episode. Funding failed again with the game only receiving $429.[5]
In October 2015, the developers announced Leviathan: The Cargo, which continues the story set in the world of Leviathan. The visual novel game features characters from Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade and new ones. The game was released in early access in 2016 and has not seen any developments since.[6] As of July 2023, Lostwood Games no longer has a website and only maintains minimal presence on twitter, with its only recent post in last two years listing the demise of one of the creators.[7]