Aether Story by Phanxgames

Aether Story is a passion project mixing the aesthetic of our most beloved retro RPGs with the modern MMO-like game play elements, allowing us to create a co-op adventure that you can play with your friends.

Explore the world as a hero with a mysterious past, as you learn the world is being destroyed by dark forces. Are you the hero that will save mankind? Are you the hero of light? Join Aether Story and make a name for yourself.

Features #

Current:

• Explore – Adventure across a detailed world full of quests, characters, and caves. Discover the beautifully pixelated world of Aether.  Currently there are two zones in the game, with new zones added every major patch.
• Battle and Combat – what appears as classic turn based combat plays like a real-time, fast-paced strategic battle system.
• Monster Encounters – round up and gather monsters to fight, you are in control of how many monsters you fight at a time- no random monster encounters.
• Instanced Dungeons – enjoy two instanced dungeons full of bosses each. With more dungeons coming soon.
• A Main Story – see the world through a story told in the JRPG style (work in-progress)
• Quest – There are dozens of quests in the game providing around 4-6 hours of game play. More Story driven quests will be coming soon.
• Professions and Crafting – gather materials and craft epic items and gear.
  • Blacksmithing
  • Cooking
  • Brewing
  • Herbalism
  • Mining
• Leaderboards – Hunt for chests and hidden treasures throughout the world and place in the leaderboards.
• PvP – fight other players and along side other players in 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 battles.
• Social Features – Including friend lists and Guilds
• Play with your friends or make new ones – Aether Story is an always online MMORPG set in a pixel world.

Planned and Coming Soon:

• Dozens of new Skills and Spells to further customize your character builds
• New Professions and Crafting including:
  • Fishing
  • Bee Keeping
  • Farming
  • Crystal Crafting
  • Treasure Map Making
  • Tinkering and Bomb Making
• Player Economy – with Auction Hall and Player Shops
• Player Housing – get those decoration skills on and make the perfect pad to chill and invite your in-game friends over to.

Controls and HelpUse the arrow keys (or WASD) to walk around.Use the Space bar to interact with objects and talk to NPC’s, as long as you are facing them.  Also the Space bar is used to close dialogs or move to the next dialog.Use the ESC key to open the main menu. You can also get to various sub menus by using the letters (I)nventory, Quest (J)ournal, World (M)ap, (B)uild, and Eq(u)ipment.Limited Controller support is now added. Plug-in a USB controller and test it out.
If you have any problems join us in discord.
  
Join Discord for suggestions, bug reports, help and more!
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**Alpha Notice:**Please note that during the Alpha your character’s progress is considered in a “test realm” and will not transfer to the official release of the game.
But not to fear. There is an Alpha Goal system in place where you may earn Alpha Tokens for completing various tasks within the Alpha! These tokens will transfer over to the release of the game, and there will allow you to unlock cosmetics!Any cosmetics you unlock during the course of the alpha will also transfer over to the official release of the game. Happy pet hunting!