Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem vs HUNGER

• Perspective: Third-Person
• Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
• Setting: Post-Post-Apocalyptic American Southwest
• Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Game Pass
• Unique Feature: A unique fusion of deep mech customization and fast-paced third-person combat with light farming and homestead management simulation, all tied to a core 'Thermal Management' mechanic.

• Perspective: First-Person
• Multiplayer: 1-3 Player Online Co-op (PvPvE)
• Setting: Alternate-History Napoleonic Europe
• Platforms: PC (Steam, Epic Games Store)
• Release Window: 2025 (Early Access)
• Unique Feature: A unique blend of a hardcore extraction shooter with deep, permanent RPG progression and Mastery Trees, set in a plague-ravaged Napoleonic era. Features no forced wipes.

• Jeremy the Dino: A non-interactive, humorous stuffed animal that Clem 'consults' with regarding mech repairs and customization, serving as a constant source of character introspection and comic relief.
  Stuffed Dinosaur

• Co-op Teammates: The game is designed for solo, duo, or trio play. Teammates are essential for surviving high-risk expeditions, sharing resources, and coordinating tactics against other players and the environment.
  Human (Player)

• Magpie Martinez Cards: A type of rare collectible found throughout the world.
• Action Figures & Hats: Collectible items found through exploration, including an original 'Rosewater Bluff Legends cap'.

• Loot: Found in chests and on enemies during Expeditions. Includes armor, bags, trinkets, medicines, and weapons that must be successfully extracted to be kept.
• Crafting Materials: Hundreds of different items found during Expeditions. Every item has a purpose in the deep crafting system.

• Mech Combat
• Wild West
• Post-Apocalyptic
• Redemption
• Base Building
• Farming Sim
• Action-Adventure

• Napoleonic Era
• Alternate History
• Extraction Shooter
• Action RPG
• Survival Horror
• Dark Fantasy
• PvPvE

• Melee Weapons: Varies (Hammers, Chain-swords, Bomb Bats)
  Heavy, high-powered melee weapons used for close-quarters mech combat. Essential for combo chains and Trick Systems.
• Firearms: Varies (Repeaters, Shotguns, Grenade Launchers)
  Mech-scale explosive firearms used in conjunction with melee attacks via the 'Gun Cancel' mechanic. Ammo is a strategic resource that must be managed.
• Desert Raptor MKII: Relic / Vehicle
  Clem's heavily customized battle mech. It is a key weapon in itself, with over 3 1/2 inches of plate armor and a strafing speed of 22 miles per hour.

• Melee Weapons: Varies (Axes, Swords, Maces)
  A critical part of combat for stealth and silent movement. Includes both one-handed and two-handed options.
• Ranged Weapons: Firearms (Flintlocks, Revolvers)
  Slow, deliberate, and high-impact firearms inspired by the early 1800s. Firing a gun is a major tactical decision as it alerts all players on the map.
• Gadgets: Utility
  A huge variety of tactical items, including ceramic grenades, lockpicking tools, repair tools, and experimental hand mortars.

• Mech Armor Plating: The Raptor possesses over 3 1/2 inches of plate armor on its joints and instruments. Damage resistance is determined by matching the correct damage type (Boom, Bludgeon, or Blade) to the enemy's hit point type (Skin, Plate, or Scale).

• Armor: Players can find and equip armor. It is designed to be supplementary, offering only one or two extra shots of survivability, rather than making a player 'superhuman'. It helps 'paper over mistakes' but does not negate the need for skill.

Progression is split between mech and base management. Mech upgrades (engine, armor, augmentations) are purchased with bounty payouts. Homestead upgrades allow for the construction of utilities (water/power), fuel and ammo production (electrolyzers, ammo benches), and farming/cooking, all of which reduce deployment costs and increase profit.

The game features a deep, permanent RPG progression system. Each 'Living' character has a unique and highly customizable Mastery Tree with over 100 talents, allowing for deep specialization in areas like combat, stealth, or support. A Prestige system allows max-level players to reset for exclusive cosmetic rewards. There is no forced progress wipe.

The Red Expanse is a semi-open world setting with a Wild West atmosphere. Missions are primarily confined to small, repeated bounty maps with boundary walls, though the general environment is vast and features contrastive day/night lighting (reddish-brown during the day, phosphorescent purple flora at night).

The game will launch into Early Access with three large and distinct maps, with a goal of ten maps for the full 1.0 release. The maps are persistent zones where up to 15 players can be active at once, featuring locations like forests, villages, monasteries, citadels, and mines. PvE-only maps are also planned for the future.

• Clementine McKinney: Playable Protagonist
  An ex-soldier, expert mech pilot, and bounty hunter seeking redemption in the Red Expanse. She pilots the Desert Raptor MKII.
• Samuel Standage: Antagonist
  Clem's former tactical enemy and current antagonist, who leads the mercenary group Copper Fist and seeks to seize control of the Red Expanse.
• Teddy Cotton: Ally / Scientist
  A 'gentle and intelligent nightmare man' (scientist/Xurner) who gives Clem a psychoactive device to relive combat memories for self-exploration and passive progress improvement.

• Bounty Contracts
  The main gameplay loop. Missions are short, arena-style contracts where Clem must eliminate enemies or capture specific targets (Dead or Alive), with optional sub-goals for bonus payouts.
• Homestead Upgrades
  The main progression objective is to manage the base, building infrastructure, and crafting fuel and ammo production to maximize bounty profits.
• Relive Combat Memories
  An optional activity where Clem uses a psychoactive device from Teddy Cotton to re-engage previous missions for self-exploration and potential passive progress improvement.

• Expeditions
  The main gameplay loop. Players deploy to one of several large maps to complete quests, scavenge for loot, and fight other players and AI, with the primary goal of successfully extracting with their findings.
• Quests
  Obtained from NPCs in the 'Chateau' social hub, these are complex, multi-stage objectives that are essential for gaining experience and building reputation. They are described as being similar in depth to quests in games like Skyrim.
• Dungeons & Bosses
  Endgame content available at launch where players are encouraged to investigate dungeons and battle powerful bosses for high-tier rewards.

The game will be in Early Access for approximately two years. During this time, the developers plan to add numerous new weapons, characters, maps, and enemies based on community feedback. The long-term monetization model favors paid DLC expansions over microtransactions.

• Q: What kind of game is Bounty Star?
  A: It is a single-player action-adventure game that mixes fast-paced, third-person mech combat with light base-building and farming simulation, set in a post-apocalyptic Wild West.
• Q: Does it have farming?
  A: Yes. Players can build gardens and a hydroponics system at their base to grow ingredients. Cooking meals with these ingredients provides temporary buffs for the next bounty mission.
• Q: What is the 'Thermal Management' system?
  A: It is a core mechanic where using mech abilities generates heat. Pushing the temperature too high causes a shutdown. Players must manage this heat, as the environment affects the base temperature, and strategic heat management grants powerful combat buffs.
• Q: Is the game open world?
  A: The setting is the Red Expanse, a semi-open world, but the core missions are linear, arena-style bounties. The open world primarily serves as a vast, atmospheric backdrop to travel through between objectives and the base.

• Q: What is HUNGER?
  A: HUNGER is a first-person PvPvE extraction RPG set in a plague-ravaged Napoleonic Europe. It combines the high-stakes loot loop of an extraction shooter with the deep, permanent character progression of a classic RPG.
• Q: Are there server wipes?
  A: No. A key feature of the game is the complete absence of forced wipes. All player experience, levels, and unlocked talents are permanent. A voluntary 'Prestige' system is available for players who wish to reset their own progress for cosmetic rewards.
• Q: Is it a 'Soulslike'?
  A: While it features challenging, deliberate combat, it is more accurately described as an extraction RPG. Unlike Soulslikes, death does not cause you to lose your experience, only the gear you were carrying on that specific run.
• Q: Is it free-to-play?
  A: No, HUNGER will be a premium, one-time purchase game launching into Early Access. The price is expected to increase as it gets closer to the full 1.0 release.

• OFFICIAL PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. The game is well-optimized but the complexity of the mech combat and environment requires modern hardware.
• Laptop Performance Note: Laptop performance will vary based on the model's cooling and TGP. For a high-octane action game, maintaining a stable framerate during intense mech combat is crucial.
• Laptop Consideration: G P U T G P: Maximum TGP for the laptop's GPU is essential to handle the massive mech models and complex thermal simulation.
• Laptop Consideration: Cooling Thermals: The game's visually rich world and demanding combat will require a laptop with a cutting-edge cooling solution to prevent thermal throttling.
• Laptop Consideration: C P U Power Limits: A powerful multi-core mobile CPU is critical for handling the physics, enemy AI, and base simulation elements.
• Laptop Consideration: M U X Switch Optimus: A MUX switch or NVIDIA Advanced Optimus is a critical feature for reducing latency and ensuring the best possible performance in the timing-based action combat.
• Game Name: Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem

• SPECULATIVE PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. As official specs were not provided in the text, these are hypothetical projections for a next-generation title built on Unreal Engine 5.
• Laptop Performance Note: A title like this would demand a high-performance gaming laptop for the best experience. Actual performance would vary significantly based on the final game's optimization and the laptop's specific hardware configuration.
• Laptop Consideration: G P U T G P: Maximum TGP for the laptop's GPU would be essential to handle the advanced graphical features and maintain stable framerates during intense PvPvE encounters.
• Laptop Consideration: Cooling Thermals: The game's visually rich world and potential for numerous AI and player entities will require a laptop with a cutting-edge cooling solution to prevent thermal throttling.
• Laptop Consideration: C P U Power Limits: A powerful multi-core mobile CPU will be critical for handling the complex AI and physics-based combat.
• Laptop Consideration: M U X Switch Optimus: A MUX switch or NVIDIA Advanced Optimus is a critical feature for reducing latency and ensuring the best possible performance in a competitive FPS.
• Game Name: HUNGER

• G P U T G P: Maximum TGP for the laptop's GPU is essential to handle the massive mech models and complex thermal simulation.
• Cooling Thermals: The game's visually rich world and demanding combat will require a laptop with a cutting-edge cooling solution to prevent thermal throttling.
• C P U Power Limits: A powerful multi-core mobile CPU is critical for handling the physics, enemy AI, and base simulation elements.
• M U X Switch Optimus: A MUX switch or NVIDIA Advanced Optimus is a critical feature for reducing latency and ensuring the best possible performance in the timing-based action combat.

• G P U T G P: Maximum TGP for the laptop's GPU would be essential to handle the advanced graphical features and maintain stable framerates during intense PvPvE encounters.
• Cooling Thermals: The game's visually rich world and potential for numerous AI and player entities will require a laptop with a cutting-edge cooling solution to prevent thermal throttling.
• C P U Power Limits: A powerful multi-core mobile CPU will be critical for handling the complex AI and physics-based combat.
• M U X Switch Optimus: A MUX switch or NVIDIA Advanced Optimus is a critical feature for reducing latency and ensuring the best possible performance in a competitive FPS.