UNRELEASED GAME - CANCELLED
This game was cancelled in development. Please only submit images if you own a copy or have legal access to this item.
User Summary
In Reckoning, the player begins the game by being killed and subsequently resurrected via the Well of Souls, a magical phenomenon capable of bringing the dead back to life. The player's rebirth was a fluke — a one-time success in a long string of failures to conquer death. Several thousand years the magic is perfected, and a Gnomish engineer activates the Well of Souls for everyone on the planet. Suddenly death is no longer a thing.
The game would have explored various issues such as "What does it mean to the societal structures of the world when all of the sudden you've got immortality?" Population, for one thing, doesn't stop growing. The world becomes more and more crowded. "What does it do to the leader of a church whose entire power base is predicated on promising you an afterlife?" Suddenly the churches are no longer needed. How does that effect the moral structure of a society?