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Unrest is a role-playing video game It plays in a 2-dimensional perspective, with graphics designed to look hand-drawn. A large portion of the game will involve making dialogue choices to influence NPCs and progress the story. NPCs will all possess and react based on three values: Friendship, Respect, and Fear.  Combat will be relatively rare, always avoidable, and very risky. However, it should be noted that playable character death does not result in a Game Over.  Instead the game proceeds to the next chapter, with the previous playable character's death influencing how the story ultimately plays out.The game takes place in Ancient India in a time of great social upheaval, but will also contain some fantasy elements, such as the Naga, a race a snake-like humanoids.
The game's story is divided into eight chapters, with players taking on the role of five different characters, who each have their own back story. The playable characters include a peasant girl who doesn't want to go through with her arranged marriage, an elderly priest, the chief of the mercenary guild, and the sole heir of the former royal family who now lives as a street urchin.

It's the calm before the storm of E3, so now's the perfect time to highlight a game that isn't going to be crammed into the noisy event. Unrest describes itself as "An Unconventional RPG Set in Ancient India", concerning such topics as famine, drought and civil unrest. Rather than playing as some heroic adventurer, you'll play as the sort of everyday citizens they'd usually chat to on their way to the weapon shop - for instance "a young girl betrothed against her will, who is trying to escape to a nearby kingdom". While Unrest has already been funded, and then some, you still have 11 days left to pledge your support for the game, should this fresh take on the RPG appeal.The pitch video, below, offers a more detailed overview of the game, but there are two things that stick out to me: Unrest's seemingly rather complex and realistic reputation system, and the fact that the story will continue even if one of the central characters dies (don't worry, you can also load a previous save, if you wish.)

From the Kickstarter page: "Every person in the world will have their opinion of you – some might despise you simply because of your birth or caste, some might admire you if you are a priest of the religion they follow, or some may be indifferent to your fate. We measure all these possibilities using 3 values for every character – Friendship, Respect and Fear. This system enables the game to portray a number of nuanced relationships that are not fully conveyed with a single "opinion" value…"In addition to playing as that poor young girl, you'll also fill the shoes of "an aging priest who might need to choose between feeding his family, his ideals and his religion, as his order becomes more involved in violence", "the chief of the mercenary guild, the person somehow holding the city together, and "the sole heir of the former royal family, now biding her time as a street urchin." If you're as intrigued by Unrest as I am, you can find more information about it here.