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Alderwood Island was always a quiet, idyllic place, until everything changed. Your mother vanished without a trace, and now a local has turned up missing. Something’s not right, and it’s up to you to piece together the truth.
Get ready to Ride through a stunning open world, follow the clues, and uncover the island’s secrets at your own pace. Whether you’re in it for the adventure, the mystery, or just the joy of exploring on horseback, Equinox: Homecoming is the MMORPG that lets you do it all. If you love cozy exploration, gripping storytelling, and a bit of the unknown, this is your kind of game.
Equinox Homecoming is coming soon to steam!
The Mane Quest has provided more information regarding this upcoming game: Game Announcement & Developer Insight – Equinox: Homecoming is a story-driven, horse-focused MMO that takes its audience seriously — The Mane Quest
RELEASE PLANS AND UPDATES
Equinox: Homecoming does not yet have a release date, nor is the team ready to share any plans regarding the game’s business model just yet. What Ashley can tell me is that Blue Scarab plans community-led development as a crucial part of their process, that they’ve been running focus tests and expansive playtests as soon as they had something playable.Since multiplayer online games tend to get updates and additions rather than being one-and-done products, I do assume that not all of the game’s story will be released at once. Colin confirms this and explains that they think of the game’s narrative like a TV serial, releasing an “episode” of content at a time and allowing the community to speculate and theorize in between, as is currently becoming more popular again in prestige television as some networks recognize the benefit of ongoing engagement over binge watching.
“But on the flip side,” Colin goes on, “we're also a fully functioning MMO with all the content and gameplay that is going to allow for repeat play.” He talks of races, leaderboards, factions and reputation as well as weekly and daily quests around the island that allow the player to level up their character and improve their equipment. Beyond these activities, Blue Scarab also plans to explicitly cater to the kind of player who spends time on modded Red Dead servers to go on trail rides together, citing The Rift Trails as a reference.
Racing against the clock is one thing to keep players busy between story episodes.
Blue Scarab is aware of the community-driven trail riding communities for Red Dead Online, and hopes to scratch a similar itch.
“Outside of the core areas that we're creating for the narrative, we've also spent a fair amount of time on the pipeline to create new areas for riding and exploration. It's incredibly difficult and time consuming to create base narrative gameplay areas because there needs to be something new to see or interact with every few seconds. But if the intention is just going for a nice scenic ride, where you have this cozy, social experience instead, we can deliver that in parallel.”
