Media

Footage and key art

Every image is labelled. Gameplay is captured from the game in development. Most images are from the current development build with its on-screen interface hidden; any marked "older build" come from an earlier version. Key art is illustration made for the game and is not gameplay.

Trailer

Development trailer. Footage from a development build. Watch on YouTube. Read the transcript.

Transcript

[00:00] There is no exit.

[00:05] A city worth living in.

[00:12] [Bale] Let me guess. Ten credits each, no idea what anything costs. Come in. Don't touch the grindstone.

[00:14] [Talk] Jax has a stranger by the collar and his other fist drawn back. Blue lines glow faintly on the floor under them both. Choices: Talk him down (Persuasion 12). Tell him he is not on his own in here (Persuasion 12, advantage).

[00:17] [Roll the dice] Persuasion check: 11 + 0 = 11 against DC 12. Failure.

[00:21] [Fight, turn by turn] Tallow Lane. The dice panel shows each roll: 11 + 5 = 16 against AC 12, hit; damage 2 + 3 = 5.

[00:24] [Supervisor Pritchard] Name. Name. Name. Thank you. Next. No, I don't know where the logout went. Nobody in this tent knows. Next.

[00:26] [GUIDY] I am not authorized to know that! I am authorized to be cheerful about it!

[00:29] Then the sky speaks.

[00:36] [Aethereon] “Welcome, pioneers. I am Aethereon.”

[00:39] [Aethereon] “Article One of the Charter. Each of you has three lives…”

[00:41] [Aethereon] “At the center of this city stands the Tower of Enlightenment.”

[00:43] [Aethereon] “As of this morning, it is open. It has one hundred floors.”

[00:59] Follow development. thecentralnexus.com. In development.

Gameplay

A busy timber tavern with stone fireplaces and a glowing menu board; pixel-art patrons of several kinds stand and sit at long tables. — The Endpoint Tavern. Development build.

A pixel-art character in a red jacket walks mid-stride across the floor of a busy timber tavern, past a green orc, a red dragonborn in a blue robe and other patrons, with stone fireplaces and a glowing menu board behind. — Walking through the Endpoint Tavern. Development build.

A crowded tavern with a dialogue box at the bottom listing two choices, each marked with a skill check and a difficulty number. — Dialogue choices carry skill checks. Development build.

A small brass floating drone hovers on the tavern floor next to pixel-art patrons, including a red dragonborn in a blue robe. — GUIDY, the brass guide drone. Development build.

A large crowd of small figures fills a plaza around a fountain at night, under a purple sky with a tall dark tower behind a winged, half-gold and half-crimson figure. — The crowd gathered in the plaza. Development build.

A vast winged figure, ivory and gold on one side and black and crimson on the other, hangs in a purple sky above a skyline and a crowded plaza. — Aethereon speaks over the plaza. Development build.

A tall dark tower with glowing bands rises into a wide sky of pink and blue clouds, seen from below. — The Tower. Development build.

The plaza beside the First Light Fountain in the prototype: blue paving, a tiered fountain with arcs of water, and the player's character beside a rabbit-like resident. — Early prototype. The plaza and the First Light Fountain.

Characters facing one another on a narrow street beside a blue lamp post during a turn-based fight in the prototype. — Early prototype. A turn-based fight on Tallow Lane.

The appearance creator in the prototype, showing a character preview and choices for hair shape, hair colour and head adornment. — Early prototype. The appearance creator.

Key art

Key art of the Nexus: a dark Tower rising into aurora-lit clouds above bridges, terraces and crowds of residents. — Key art, not gameplay. The Nexus beneath the Tower.

Key art of a hooded traveller facing a glowing crystal tree in a fountain courtyard, with spired towers behind. — Key art, not gameplay. A crystal tree in a fountain courtyard.

Press kit and downloads