Vasalius: Human Error launches on Kickstarter on Wednesday, 18 November, aiming to put a new first-person N64 action RPG on a real cartridge.
It’s a first-person action RPG, and it runs natively on a stock 4 MB console. That means you won’t need an Expansion Pak to play it on the N64 you already own.
The Retro Room Games confirmed the date this week. Its pre-campaign page on Kickstarter is open to follow, which the release calls the simplest way to be there when the campaign starts. The studio is asking for $6,400 to manufacture physical N64 cartridges with battery-backed save memory. The studio hasn’t given a launch time, a release date for the finished game, or a cartridge price yet.
The story starts the morning after something fell out of the sky. Your town asks what the boom was, the sky turns purple, and people you’ve known all your life start acting strangely. The Retro Room Games says something latches onto a person, plants a seed and lets go, so every survivor is “a question, someone to save or something wearing them.”
Mara, a childhood friend who left for school years ago and came back last spring, travels with you. Together, you ride the last working train line out of town, through a suburb, a hospital, the sewers, and a factory, towards the crater where it all started.
Five weapons and four stats shape both the fights and the conversations: Speed, Reflex, Grit, and Charm. The choices you make lead to several endings. The levels are 3D and filled with 2D sprite enemies, and the game uses handcrafted pixel art and an original soundtrack by Leberch, Alex-morgan, and Atlasaudio. The studio says it used no generative AI.
Jon St. John, the voice of Duke Nukem, joined the cast alongside YouTuber John Riggs.
