A downloadable Dead Social MMO for Windows

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Sanctuarium Online was a social asynchronous MMO published in 2005 on the Nintendo DS, sold few copies and sunk into the abyss of memory. 

You played as a godlike being in charge of keeping a town alive. The simple fact of being active in Sanctuarium Servers was sufficient to keep the world in a peaceful state. 
However, everybody left the game at some point.
Now in 2022, you have access to a special edit containing the last server up and running.


Features :

- A small world to explore, and 10 Divinities to collect, each giving you more powers. 

- Light Platforming elements

- 1st person Gameplay and 3rd person Gameplay on the fly

- Complete Gamepad Support (recommended for a better experience)

Controls : 

D-pad / Stick = move

L/R = move camera left and right

B = interact

A = Run

X = jump

Y = hit (you'll need to find the upgrade)

Select = switch views

Start = menu

Takes around 15 minutes to complete.

Made in 15 days for the #dyingmmojam

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

SanctuariumOnline.zip 37 MB

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If I learn the SDK's I could make this a real DS game. At the moment I can only make a 2D version but still a real DS game.

It was a fun platformer game with interesting visuals.

For some reason when I use my ps4 controller the game thinks I'm pressing all these buttons at the same time when I'm not and I don't know how to fix it

an absolute masterpiece goddam

is this actually a ds homebrew?!

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this game is rlly rlly cool! Love the haunted vibes, the atmosphere of a place that used to be populated being so barren is rlly effective, and I also love that there wasn't an attempt to sand down the broken gameyness a game like this would have to add to the atmosphere, I think it works perfectly with both the silly-looking powers and the creepy vibes! Great job

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You nailed the amosphere here, I couldn't help but think wonder how each building was used and about the players that would cherish this MMO, super cool!

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Really cool game. I think the camera switching mechanic is brilliant, it was a lot of fun to switch between exploring buildings carefully and running around the overworld. Flying up the steep-slope walls was a neat and unexpected twist. And the sound design/atmosphere did a great job recreating something from the DS era. I enjoyed looking at all the vistas of buildings and faraway areas and figuring out how to reach them.

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Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts on the game :)  New DS-like games are on their ways too eheh

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Very good game. Really enjoyable. I made a video if someone is interested 

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xLainik: This game was quite the experience haha. Love the DS aesthetic and the whole mystery behind it all. Great game.

05/08/2005

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Thanks for playing ! To answer the question that you left in the ratings : yup it is possible to finish the game without collecting most of the statues, but some are needed to unlock the ending and access the final zone.

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I really liked the atmosfere! Super cool game

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loooove this, very cool! incredible architecture and world design

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Still a masterpiece

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thanks a lot <3

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There is an alternate ending if you find all 70 kings tears.

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Can you tell me about it? I just finished the game but I don't want to do it over to go collecting

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Unfortenately there are no alternate ending, maybe Daemonikle took the original ending for an alternate one hah

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Oh, okay. Thanks for telling me. Game was still cool tho, thanks for making it

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I'm sure if you keep looking you will find it 😉😈

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Atmosphere of this game is awesome, super wierd game but enjoyed. ->

Wow, you managed to complete the game without using the First Person view once aha, well done ! For info pressing Select (on your pad) or TAB you could switch views :) 

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good gam

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The DS UI is a fantastic addition! I love everything about this. It really feels like something that could have existed in the DS era.

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This is so cool!!!!!!!!! I love this so much omg

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This is a cool experience! Played on an Xbox controller, so the on-screen button icons helped a lot in addition to just looking cool. I really liked being able to switch views on demand too, it felt like a DS feature Nintendo would've played up at the time.

This place felt very desolate and truly abandoned, so feel like I may have done the right thing in the end by [REDACTED]

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Thanks for taking the time to play it ! I think you've done the right thing, there are some stuff that must stop at some points. (glad you enjoyed to visibles DS buttons because until the end I hesitated to include them, but in the end I went all way into the DS fetish aha)

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This is amazing, thank you so much

wow thanks :)

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First time I've seen someone make an indie game inspired by DS games, and hey... it turned out amazing. There were few moments when I thought I was playing on an emulator. For more games like this. Congratulations on your game.

Glad you enjoyed it 5mg, and thanks for the video :)

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The DS vibe is so cool!

Thanks Niandra!

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Heads up, you should mark your uploaded build as For Windows on itch so people can play the game in the itch client.

thanks, I completely forgot that on launch !