New Homebrew Announced: Lost Days 0

The developer of the first commercially sold Saturn homebrew game, Red Moon: Lost Days, has announced its prequel.

The game, Lost Days 0, was announced during the Homebrew Games Summer Showcase 2024 yesterday. Developer Neuromage Studio, led by SHIRO! community member Sansigolo, said it’s another sci-fi RPG/visual novel hybrid that follows Io, a pilot and spy on a mission that’s threatened by a skilled assassin. The plot is set two years before Red Moon: Lost Days.

The game’s Itch.io page goes into more detail:

“Lost Days 0 is a Sci-Fi RPG/visual novel for the Sega Saturn about Io, a pilot/spy who was sent to United Europe to investigate Cornelli, meanwhile, the arrival of a skilled assassin threatens her mission.

Seventeen years have passed, yet the shadow of the Great War still hangs upon the world. On February 28, 2019, the 3th World War began. The war was between China and the United States of America. A series of sanctions imposed by the United States ignited this war. A feature of the Great War was the use of robots, manned bipedal machines, the Metal Knights. China, now called Great China, became a union of republics, consolidating itself as the largest economy.

After that, Great China established a system to remain militarily stately. The Great Generals system. Each of the Great Generals acts as a strong independent force. They are stationed throughout the nation. Zhaoky base with Houke and Rinshu, Weisho base with Ren and Goke, Yannro base with Gakuk and Gekishin, Quinou base with Koshou and Lu, and Chukou base with Kyou.

You are Io of Yannro, Vice General, commander in the Gekishin Army and a military spy Originally you was a rebel leader infamous for organizing resistance acts in United Europe.”

This will be the fourth homebrew game that Sansigolo and his team have made for the Saturn after Red Moon: Lost Days in 2023, The Case of the City Botucaiba in 2022 and The Lighthouse of São Bento do Oeste in 2020.

“I like telling stories in games,” Sansigolo said in the SegaXtreme Discord server. ” And I know that in my next game I carry all the development experience of the previous one, so I can focus on telling a more interesting story, making the game better, artistically and musically.”