Given the prominence of a certain book-turned-movie franchise that will have a big release later this year, it’s unsurprising that certain teams are trying to capture that “vibe” for their own video games. For Terahard and Indie.io, they’re going to do that themselves next month when they release Dunebound Tactics, a roguelite RPG title where you can try to keep everyone alive on your craft, or, you can sacrifice them so that the rest of your party can keep going. Yes, your choices will absolutely matter here. Check out the breakdown and trailer below:

“The world runs on Elios, a resource that rewrites life and death and leaves crystals where the dead used to be. It powers the engine that drags your caravan across the Sands. It also sits inside every member of your crew. When a battle takes its toll, the infirmary is one option. Extraction is the other, and it leaves a survivor as a husk while the engine keeps turning.

Neither choice is free, and the dunes rarely make the first one easy. That pressure lands in combat, where the battlefield is something you build rather than something you find. Obliterate cover or drag it out of position. Summon ice pillars to choke enemy movement or explosive ones to trap them. Lay mines, set traps, then shove an Imperial into the pitfall you dug two turns earlier. Caravan skills reach in from off the field to buff your party or clear the way for it. This is not a cover-and-shoot affair. It is a game about deciding what the ground is going to do next.

Legend places Haven somewhere beyond the Sands, a sanctuary for anyone desperate enough to go looking. Nobody who has gone has come back. Each attempt feeds the next one, with the wrecks of previous caravans yielding modules and sometimes survivors, and dynamic world generation reshaping the route every time. Fifteen classes, sixteen traits, and more than fifty modules go into a crew, and thirty-eight enemy types stand between it and the horizon as the Imperials and the Arcanists fight over what is left.”

Yep. That got dark. But, that’s the tone you need to consider when you’re going out across the dunes like this and wanting to survive. If you think this title calls your name, the game will arrive on Steam on September 14th. Plus, there’s a demo on the Gamescom floor, if you’re there.