Terra Incognita Chapter One: The Descendant
Early access since Feb 2015
Terra Incognita is a classic role playing game. The world of Terra is slowly falling into chaos. A great war is coming and It's time to take up arms against a corrupt royal family. You must travel across this huge world and unite the nations of Terra, recruiting comrades along the way.
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In early access, content planned but development status unclear
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Content Planned
Development Uncertain
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Steam $1.99
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Evaluation
Terra Incognita Chapter One: The Descendant entered Steam Early Access on February 3, 2015. The developer, a solo indie developer named Dan, shipped a series of feature and bug-fix patches through 2015, with a second major content update in January 2017 (Update 1.5 – "The Drowned King"). In the January 3, 2017 post announcing that update, Dan was explicit: the game is not finished, more story content and side quests remain to be implemented, and the current version only allows players to progress partway through the story. He also noted that each future update would be "thoroughly packed with content" until the final version.
The last post of any kind from the developer was a content teaser on January 8, 2017. Since then — through June 27, 2026 — there has been no update, patch, announcement, or communication of any kind. The game has never reached a 1.0 release. The promised story completion, remaining areas, characters, and side quests have never shipped. The developer acknowledged a difficult solo development history with repeated delays, and the studio also publishes other indie games, which may have diverted attention. There is no indication of whether development is continuing, paused, or abandoned.
Evidence
Developer posts content teasers for Update 1.5 — the last official communication from the developer on record.
Developer confirms Update 1.5 ('The Drowned King') is in final testing and nearly ready to ship, but explicitly states the game is not finished — more story, side quests, and content areas are still to come in future updates before a final version.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Back To Basics Gaming
Achievements
15
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
The world of Terra is slowly falling into chaos. A great war is coming and It's time to take up arms against a corrupt royal family. You must travel across this huge world and unite the nations of Terra, recruiting comrades along the way.
At the beginning of the game you play as 'Alexis' a mysterious young man, with no memory of his past.
As you travel you will unravel his history, discover his destiny and the ancient secrets of Terra!
Set off on an adventure across Terra, recruit comrades to your battle party, search out ancient lore and be immersed in a deep, emotional story-line.
At the beginning of the game you play as 'Alexis' a mysterious young man, with no memory of his past.
As you travel you will unravel his history, discover his destiny and the ancient secrets of Terra!
Set off on an adventure across Terra, recruit comrades to your battle party, search out ancient lore and be immersed in a deep, emotional story-line.
Features
- A Deep and immersive story-line
- Explore a vast world, large areas to traverse, rich with detail
- Fast paced, traditional turn based battle system
- Recruit a large array of characters to the party, all with their own unique personalities! Not all characters are story critical, explore and find comrades!
- Each recruitable character has a series of back-story centred side quests
- High quality original soundtrack
- Upgrade your weapons/armours
- Decorate and upgrade the home-hub area as you recruit characters that bring different skills to the team!
- Side quests galore!
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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