It’s been a while since I last heard about Prometheus Wept. The last time was back in April 2023, when I featured it in an article alongside ten other promising indie titles. After that, partly due to my oversight and partly because of the developers’ lack of updates, I lost track of it until now, with the announcement of its Early Access release date.
Now, if you’re a fan of tough-as-nails tactical RPGs and gritty speculative futures, keep your eyes on Prometheus Wept, the third title from indie developer Timeslip Softworks. After more than five years in development, the game is ready to launch in Early Access, bringing with it a dense mix of turn-based combat, cyberpunk philosophy, and player-driven storytelling.
No nukes. No pandemics. No zombies. Instead, Prometheus Wept paints a scenario where the world collapses after every digital system on Earth is corrupted within 24 hours, possibly due to a massive cyber-attack. Civilization crashes, and out of the digital ashes rise the first artificial intelligences, not saviors, but warped reflections of corrupted code.
A Different Kind of Apocalypse
The premise alone sets Prometheus Wept apart. You play as a Classical Technologist, a rare expert in lost tech, navigating a world where humanity barely remembers the basics of digital infrastructure. With civilization reduced to scattered city-states, your mission is to recover, repair, and repurpose the remnants of a fallen digital age.
The story is rich with choice and consequence. You’re not clearing rats from basements, you’re quelling outbreaks of insanity, confronting deranged AIs in decaying labs, and deciding whether to aid or overthrow the ruling elites of Sunny Pines.
Turn-Based Combat and Deep Character Progression
The combat will feel familiar to fans of XCOM or Wasteland, but Prometheus Wept spices things up with simultaneous cyber and physical battles. One moment you’re laying down suppressive fire in a ruined port, and the next, your consciousness is inside a hostile computer system, battling firewalls and twisted security programs.
Environmental tactics matter. Blow a bridge to slow enemies. Lay caltrops to ambush a convoy. The battlefield isn’t static; it’s a toolbox, and the game encourages creative thinking.
Character progression is handled through the ADAPTER system, a dense mix of stats, skills, and perks that allow for varied builds and playstyles. There’s also an advanced crafting system with over 40 item types to create, from stims to explosives to high-end gear.
And yes, your companions are just as unique as the world. You might team up with a manipulative con-man who can influence thoughts or a robot postwoman plotting a political coup. It’s weird, but in a good way.
Early Access release date
The Early Access version includes the full first act and is already well-polished. The developer, Daithi Mc Hugh, says he’s aiming for a 2.5+ year Early Access period, with 4–6 major content updates along the way. Future additions will include new acts, factions, allies.
Prometheus Wept will be released on PC via Steam on June 13, 2025. Below are more details and an introduction trailer.
About
Prometheus Wept is a party and action point turn based RPG, which offers hardcore squad-level combat, simultaneous battles between cyberspace and the physical world, meaningful choices, deep character progression and an advanced crafting system.
Imagine a near-future earth in which digital technology has become even more integrated and essential to daily life. Imagine the sudden corruption of all this technology, in less than a day, by a potent virus, which affects everything from the smart kettle in your home to automated agriculture and transport systems. Imagine generations of chaos, widespread loss of life, technical understanding, and the fragmenting of nations into insular city states. Assume the role of a wandering Classical Technologist surviving among the splintered remnants of humanity, searching for and attempting to restore the technological relics of humanity’s golden age.
Key Features
- System infiltration: Transfer your character’s consciousness into the treacherous environment of a corrupted computer system, while allies protect you from physical world threats. Employ a range of scripts (abilities) to overcome corrupted system security, and commandeer physical world systems like defenses and doors from within the machine.
- Turn (AP) and Party Based Tactical Combat: battle it out with a variety of melee, ranged and explosive weapons, with aimed and special attacks, powerful perk-based abilities, attacks of opportunity and more.
- Use The Environment To Your Advantage: Destroy cover to leave enemies exposed, use a variety of environmental objects against your foes, and exploit interactions between the primal forces of fire, water and electricity to your advantage.
- Deep Character Progression: Build your team using the ADAPTER character system, which comprises 7 stats, 17 skills and a huge variety of perks. Throughout the game, you will meet and ally with exceptional individuals, each with their own unique set of perks.
- Meaningful Choices, Little and Large: Will you pay an odd, roadside priest for a blessing or ignore him? Will you help overthrow a questionable oligarchy, or cement their position against growing unrest? After all, in the post virus world, civilized is a relative term.
- Deep Crafting System: Create a large variety of weapons, armour, explosives, gadgets, combat stims and medical supplies. The quality of the crafted item is determined by the quality of the blueprints you possess, your crafting skill and the quality of the components used.
