Avium
Release date: Mar 9, 2024
Developers: The Robot
Publishers: Triune Vanguardian
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Playable without Timed Input, Stereo Sound, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Russian

Discover the world of the future with Avium, a role-playing adventure game where you can enjoy an open world, deep story, and future technology. Test new generation weapons, investigate complex crimes, explore the city and its inhabitants. And defeat your enemies, who are trying to destroy peace and order. Gary, Jake, Derek, and Sarah together make up the Vanguards Vigilante Group in Avium, a desert city that thrives on the edge of Cyberpunk style. They're doing their best to keep the peace and uphold the law, but growing animosity against all vigilantes has reached its peak. While exposing corruption in Avium's various districts alongside hunting down your nemesis, the sentient robot menace known as Haz-Mat , you'll get to fly and fight as the vigilante Jake aka 'Diezel'. You will have to uncover many mysteries and secrets, find yourself on the brink of death, and challenge new vices and problems of the future world in an age where instability, political nepotism, and social upheaval dominate logic. The race toward the next stage in human evolution begins! In the aftermath of democracy and rise of totalitarianism, we have colonized the Solar System, making our once estranged planets part of our new empire. Cutting edge cybernetics, super power drugs, the loss of thousands of years of history, and the power vacuum between rivaling corporations all plunge Avium, the cyber capital of Earth, into revolt. However, a far greater force of darkness looms on the horizon, threatening to end humanity's reign across all dimensions, all times, and all stages of evolution... Story Mode  : Main Quest campaign, taking you from Central Avium to the South Jungles and beyond. Free Mode : Choose one of three Open World Areas, independent from the story of Avium. Four including the DLC. Arcade Mode : Tutorials, Boss battles, DLC, Cinematics, Elimination battles, Zombies, and a race to play. 'A single button can save the universe' - There is a moment when choosing to interact or not absolutely transforms the story into 'hero saves the damsel in distress' or 'hero dukes it out against an arena of bosses with the tools of war at your disposal’. Watch those Pop-in Messages to know what to do and when to do it. Your actions will give you the edge and let you save the universe... 'Accessible Lore, if you want it. Deep world, if you don't' - You have access to almost all the lore and history you'd find in the 'Avium' book series , a majority of which are not directly given to you, but instead are revealed only to the most curious. Explore & investigate, and you'll find the truth! Or don't... As you fly around like a god, a titan, Prometheus himself, you'll get a sense of authority and access to everything at your fingertips. You have an AI there at your beck and call, ready to grant you all the tools of war you'll need. It's all your choice. 'No single weapon is the best in the game' - You have immense choice in how you destroy enemies through the Quick Select Menu , which is navigated by swiping through windows, like our phones and our social media apps. Every weapon affects Common Enemies and Bosses differently. Choose your weapons wisely to defeat them. And watch those pop-ins. While Bosses have their own weaknesses to the tools you're carrying, some of your weapons can destroy parts of the environment. Whether you want to deal with enemies using stealth, magic, or telekinesis, or using guns, brute strength, and war-suit artillery...you get to do all of it in Avium. A lot of it! The current fan-favorite weapon is the minigun . A word to the wise,  'Witness the signs of a world that has achieved both near-total unity and the extinction of humanity simultaneously under the surface of Avium. We often hear of the positives of a globally unified society, one no longer at war with itself. In spite of this global peace, it's theorized that with total peace comes total stagnancy, where there's no need to hold debates of any kind, a need to be innovative, or to even have independent thought. Why go to war when everyone is of one mind and one accord? Avium is an over-the-top snapshot of your society 100 years from now. It's a slice of society on its way to achieving near total  unity between all humans, where We've replaced Our governments not with totalitarian corporations, but instead just the opposite: corporations that publicly express sentiments for cyber-genics to demonstrate their good nature and to promote the cybernetic future with their 'free' services. Here in Avium, We explore areas that would naturally experience a sort of moral atrophy under the surface despite 98.6 percent global unity... 98.6 is a number humans are all too familiar with, as it's the temperature of the human body in degrees Fahrenheit. And as such, Avium is considered the new global body. With such a union, it matters not what the 1.4 percent of rebels, outliers, and unfortunates think or say. What can they really do in the face of a global order the likes of which We've never achieved before? And it's all thanks to the union of 'benevolent' corporations known collectively as The Big Four . Our incredible ability to adapt, left unchecked, carries undeniable potential. We are creatures of evolution, after all. On one hand, adaptation gave Us marvels of medicine and technology, life-extending wonders! On the other hand, it has changed Our sense of reality... As We progress, We leave history and tradition behind — a by-product of Progress . We're naturally and unintentionally replacing Our past with the die-hard pursuit of truth, spectacle, or convenience, or often all three. Taking this to its endpoint means that anything We 'know' today can't possibly stand the test of time, thus everything We 'know' is subject to redefinition because of some discovery in Our near future. Rules, laws, constitutions, and democracies are no exception. However, this new age coupled with everyone's inescapable, dare I say 'mortal', avarice to be 'right' and a growing irrational determination to shut down any opposing viewpoint has welcomed widespread disorder that pits everyone's definitions against everyone else's diverse perspectives. We can suddenly claim anything We say or perceive is the authentic 'truth'. And if proof can no longer be obtained by a sound majority without shattering Our concept of Our self-indulgent reality, then what is reality? What is more deifying than the changing of reality itself in but a single, inconsequential sentence without any opposition? As We're sailing through the endless ocean of 'truths', We can suddenly do and be anything, united in the sensational fantasy that We have the freedom of choice when, in fact, We are drowning in the ocean of 'freedom', guided only by Our desires and pleasures and unified only by Our hatred of opposition. It's no wonder 98.6% of the human population now unironically shares the same beliefs, goals, and odd lingo. Evolution isn't a gift; it's a negotiation. What would you give for it?'                                                                                                               --Darkness If you're seeking: Anthem-Style Flight via your jet-like War-Suit!  Looter-Shooter elements with Open-world Exploration! An arsenal of Missiles and Turrets  and breakneck speed Combat! Challenging Boss Battles Slide, Triple Jump, Dashing, Wall-Dashing , and Superhero Landing Locomotion Features Hacking doors with code Defensive & Offensive Teleportation A Magic System (Ice, Fire, Electricity, Telekinesis) for unlocking puzzles & minor combat Unlockable Laser Vision Stealthy Assassinations & Invisibility Seamless  swapping from FPS to TPS Dystopian capitalism, neon skylines, allegory, tragedy & betrayal...but you also want to dip your toes in the Hard Sciences of the fermi paradox, quantum mechanics & multiverses, general relativity, the Kardashev scale, Bekenstein bound, Planck time, extraterrestrial life, robotics, artificial intelligence, war, black holes, evolution, and did I mention LASERS?? Fun little Easter Eggs and references to games that inspired Avium. And Photo Mode ! Take stunning pics up to 4K right here in-game, exactly how you want them, and export the photos to your personal drive automatically! Then welcome to Avium! 


Notes: Contains violence & blood, revealing outfits, flashing lights.