Outcast Tales: The First Journey

Turn-based roguelite RPG where your party's personalities shape the journey

Hardlane Studio · Released Jan 29, 2024

Adventure Indie RPG Strategy Free To Play

Reviews: Very Positive; 86% of 286
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 2 years ago; Feb 21, 2024
Minimum PC: Open GL 3.2+ Compliant; 3 GB RAM · 4 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Outcast Tales: The First Journey?

This free, single-player RPG prologue follows three travelers across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Runs mix turn-based battles against robots, mutants, and raiders with events that test your characters' skills.

For you if...

+you like experimenting with different class and personality combinations
+you enjoy choices that build friendships or rivalries within your party

Not for you if...

−you prefer real-time action to turn-based tactical battles
−you dislike random events and chance-based combat outcomes

What players say

86% of 286 reviews are positive

Players praise the comic-style art, character interactions, and narrator's performance. A recurring complaint is that the prologue ends too soon.

Screenshots and trailer

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Outcast Tales: The First Journey system requirements

Minimum: Open GL 3.2+ Compliant, 3 GB RAM, 4 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Win 10, 8 and 7 SP1+ (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
Graphics: Open GL 3.2+ Compliant
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Storage: 4 GB available space
DirectX: Version 9.0c

Does Outcast Tales: The First Journey have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Outcast Tales: The First Journey run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements: 10
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English. Text only: German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese.

Does Outcast Tales: The First Journey use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam