Cancelled Dreamcast game Agartha to be released soon

Dreamcast fans had reason to get excited when video surfaced of the highly-anticipated, yet cancelled Dreamcast horror-adventure game Agartha surfaced for the first time last summer. The game, which was developed by French developer No Cliché, was shown in playable form after it was found in a bundle of GD-ROMs that was bought on eBay.

Now, it appears that Laurent C., who has many Dreamcast prototypes in the past, has come into possession of the Agartha code and plans to release it online on Jan. 15. We’re not quite sure how much of the game is playable at this time, however, but we’ve been told that Frederick Raynal, the former director of No Cliché, is involved in some form with this release.

Here’s a synopsis of the game courtesy of Unseen64: During the winter of 1929 in a Romanian village that was partially destroyed by a landslide that occurred during a mysterious earthquake, a subterranean city exists called Agartha. This is where evil is being kept prisoner and is desperate to escape. Kirk the human hero will encounter a series of characters from villages, the living dead, fanatics from an evil sect, monsters, demons, solider monks, priests, archangels and the Sentinel who is the ultimate personification of evil. As Kirk you can decide to save as many innocent people as possible or to trigger the arrival of chaos on earth. As Kirk’s morals waver between good and evil, this ambiguity changes the aims of the adventure and the narration of the story.

Like many Dreamcast games in development in 2001, it was cancelled after SEGA announced it was discontinuing production of the system, and No Cliché soon went out of business altogether. We’re really excited to learn more about what state of completion this release of Agartha is in and can’t wait to get our hands on it!

http://www.seganerds.com/2018/01/02/cancelled-dreamcast-game-agartha-to-be-released-soon/

 

Great news!!! Cant wait to play this game!

 

Thanks for posting this!! Incredibly excited would be an understatement!!

 

Big news - will be interesting to see how much is in there!

 

Oh please oh please let this come to pass, I would LOVE to play this! It is my favorite genre and I was disappointed when I heard about this lost title.

 

Very awesome to hear!

 

Release the 15th at 10:00 (Paris hour)

 

Fantastic news. Thus is a game that many were looking forward to back in the day. I can't wait to give this a try.

 

I remember reading it in the magazines and being amazed! Even if it is a small demo, I'm very happy to try it!

 

See here. A small demo is also fine with me. Just a taste is good enough.

 

I'm in the same boat. I've been wanting to get my hands on this one for years. Anybody who directs the original Alone in the Dark and makes another horror game is on my radar. Very excited for this. Luckily I have the 15th off as well so bonus haha.

 

i'm very happy because tomorrow we are going to get this gem after 20 long years finally its going to happen.

 

Finally bro!!! I can´t wait!

 

Counting down!

 

It's been the 15 th here in Japan for 13 hours now. Where's my download
Seriously though, looking forward to this.

 

As @itsthinkingstil said on another thread we will be getting it around 1 Paris time. Very excited.

 

Demo is out : http://www.dreamcast-news.com/2018/01/demo-dagartha-disponible.html

 

I played demo, it's amazing game with good graphics! Too bad it's unfinished. I hope developers go to KickStarter to finished this game.