The Bustling World: A Life Sim RPG Like No Other
Hey, gamers! Are you ready for the ultimate life sim RPG experience? If so, you'll want to check out The Bustling World, a stunning open-world game set in ancient China that lets you shape your own destiny. Whether you want to be a humble farmer, a crafty merchant, a wise ruler, or a fearless warrior, The Bustling World has something for everyone. Read on to find out more about this amazing game that's coming soon from Thermite Games.
The Bustling World is the brainchild of FireWo Games, a young Chinese couple who spent over five years developing their dream project. Their passion and dedication paid off when Thermite Games, a leading publisher of indie games, decided to back them up and bring their vision to life. The game has already amassed over 150,000 wishlists (myself included) on Steam in just 20 days, and it's easy to see why.
Hours of Immersive Adventure
The game offers a thrilling fusion of adventure, strategy, and simulation that will keep you hooked for hours. You can explore a vast and vibrant world full of secrets, dangers, and opportunities. You can interact with hundreds of characters, each with their own personality, backstory, and agenda. You can make choices that have lasting consequences for yourself and the world around you. You can also customize your character, your home, your farm, your city, and even your kingdom.
The Bustling World is not just a game; it's a living, breathing world that reacts to your actions and decisions. You can influence the political landscape, the economic situation, the cultural trends, and the social dynamics of your realm. You can forge alliances or make enemies with other factions. You can wage war or seek peace. You can trade or barter. You can learn new skills or master ancient arts. You can solve puzzles or create them. You can enjoy leisure activities like fishing, cooking, painting, or playing music.
Features
A Living World with Smart AI: Everything and everyone in the game has its own mind and will and reacts differently to what you do. You can interact with NPCs who have complex personalities, relationships, and lifestyles, and influence the development of the cities in the game.
Enjoy Farming Your Way: A Unique Planting System with more than 60 kinds of plants that need different levels of care, water, and temperature—a sophisticated animal husbandry system with over 30 animal types that you can use for materials, combat, or travel. You can breed and train animals, and even find rare and mutated ones in the wild.
Experience Realistic Ancient Crafts: Learn how to make authentic Chinese crafts like cooking, weaving, and smelting. You can choose to do everything by hand or use machines to automate your production.
Create Your Own Architecture Style: Use nearly 2,000 building components to build different kinds of structures based on historical paintings and classics.
Interact with Anyone: Talk to any NPC, from commoners to rulers. You can befriend, marry, bribe, or challenge them in your adventure. Your choices and actions will have unexpected consequences and effects.
Make A Home for Yourself: Buy and sell properties that change in value depending on the game economy and decorate your homes with almost a thousand ancient items.
Try Different Jobs: Explore various professions like shopkeeper, farmer, miner, logger, chef, and more.
Have Fun in Your Spare Time: Join competitions like pet fighting cards, cooking, martial arts, and horse racing for fame and fortune.
Become A Business Mogul: Start and grow different businesses using smart strategies and even sneaky tricks.
Witness The Beauty of Chinese Clothing: The first game to fully recreate traditional Chinese clothing with advanced physics simulation. The designs are based on ancient artworks and literature.
Enter A World of Shadows: Dive into the hidden underworld and its gangs. Join or oppose secret factions, learn their skills and secrets. Gather clues and decide how to get the treasures you want. You'll find all kinds of shady characters, from underground gambling dens to secret vaults, to bandits, martial artists, and beggars. You can sneak around or fight your way through. Deal with the aftermath of your crimes. Run away, destroy evidence, or pay off officials.
Live The Jianghu Adventure: Explore, battle, and uncover the secrets of the Jianghu. Hire heroes and form your own mercenary band.
Build and Conquer Your Regime: Create your own territory or take over others. Train and upgrade your troops for defense and expansion.
Become A Leader: Make decisions on military, culture, economy, and research. Plan and manage your city development and inter-city relations. Arrange your land wisely by setting up residential and commercial zones, while balancing the needs and contributions of NPCs for city growth.
Engage in Complex Diplomacy: Negotiate, trade, threaten, and ally with others. Consider multiple factors for effective diplomatic strategies.
Enjoy The Hand-Painted Art Style: Fully 3D, but with a unique hand-painted touch, featuring over 5,000 textures, all hand-drawn, avoiding AI generation for authentic artistic expression.
The Bustling World is a game that lets you be whoever you want to be and do whatever you want to do. It's a game that celebrates creativity, diversity, and freedom. It's a game that will challenge you, inspire you, and surprise you. It's a game that you don't want to miss.
So, what are you waiting for? Add The Bustling World to your Steam wishlist, join The Bustling World’s Discord, and follow their official Twitter today and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime!
About Thermite Games
Thermite Games is a publisher comprised of industry veterans. Founded in 2020, the company, headquartered in Beijing, has published titles such as The Bustling World, Teatopia, House of Legacy, Nobody - The Turnaround, Detained: Too Good for School, Tales of the Neon Sea, LONESTAR, Sophia the Traveler, and more. For more information, visit thermitegames.com