History VideoGame / Eastshade

It has a unique premise in that the game is completely devoid of violence and instead the player is an artist, who arrives on the fantasy island of [[LocationTitle Eastshade]] with the goal of creating four grand paintings that are supposed to represent his mother's memories of the place. However, they get shipwrecked right before arriving on the island, and thus lose most of their possessions and money. As such, you lack even the means to make paintings and must support yourself through more conventional means at first, and will need to settle for humbler orders from the island's residents before you get to the four vistas you are after. Moreover, each painting you get requires a certain amount of inspiration to draw, and so you need to be judicious about picking the best view, and not simply painting every single thing you come across.

* {{Arcadia}}: Eastshade is a nearly untouched island with just one city, one town and a few small houses. The rest is SceneryPorn filled with GhibliHills.

* ConvenientEclipse: Played with. There is an eclipse ''every single day'' around noon, but at the start the game literally stops time at 10:47 until the player goes to the gazeebo and triggers the first eclipse.

* EvilTowerOfOminousness: A lot of people in Lyndow see a light in the night in the Abandoned Tower and you even find horror stories written about it. [[spoiler: It's the hideout of the Architect of Lyndow who lives there ever since he got fed up with being ridiculed for his disfigurement.]]

* FirstPersonSnapshooter: The player character is a painter, so unsurprisingly the gameplay involves painting, whcih, in practice, is just like taking a screenshot which is then rendered into a painting. The main quest is making a painting of 4 particular places, and several sidequests require you to make paintings.

* GRatedDrug: The Dream Tea. You drink it, fall asleep and have the wildest dreams. There's even a group trying to forbid its use.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: [[spoiler: The architect]] suffers from this due to [[spoiler: his facial disfigurement.]] Most interactions are a mixture of UngratefulBastard, DontYouDarePityMe and GloryHound. [[spoiler: Once you give him a painting of Lyndow, he gives a GrudgingThankYou and in the epilogue, he sends a letter in which he properly appreciates your painting and actually recommends you to other architects.]]

* MadOracle: Roshanara. [[spoiler: She just acts like one to see if you would pick one of the endangered Black Thistles.]]

* MistakenForEvidence: A few things in the Sinkwood Inn mystery are a RedHerring, such as [[spoiler: the sale contract for the Inn, the stolen relic of Vadim, the abscence of the student and the dismissal letter of the historian.]]

* RhymesOnADime: Mudwillow. She probably can talk normal as she teached Alejo how to speak [[spoiler: sky-people language.]]
* SeaMonster: Played for laughs. Ol' Pop is said to be a massive fish in the lake who consumes valuables and ''almost'' kill people. He's only slightly bigger than other sandfish and perfectly harmless.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Malek claims to have an elixir made of spring water that can make you immortal. [[spoiler: While spring water DOES grant immortality, his elixir is just rain water.]]

* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: Tam accidentally sold Toxic Tubers as Zucchinis. He begs you to collect them before people get sick. [[spoiler: You can get one before it is eaten, one client noticed what it is and used it for something more appropiate, one person says they already [[{{Squick}} used it]] (and make sure to say it was ''not'' eaten) and for one person is already suffering through the worst pain he ever had.]]

* WeirdMoon: A very large, stationary one, which eclipses the sun every day at noon. [[spoiler: In the ice cave dream, both the moon ''and'' the sun appear as featureless black metallic spheres.]]

''Eastshade'' is a unique WideOpenSandbox game, developed by Eastshade Studios and released on February 21st, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, with versions for UsefulNotes/PS4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne released on October 21st, 2019.

* ObviousBeta: The initial release suffered from frequent crashes.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Bojan, who might have something similar to Autism.

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* IAteWhat: Ennio makes his brother Sergio eat a grape pastry.

* BaitAndSwitch: The "ElixirOfLife" quest. The setup is between potential SnakeOilSalesman Melek and OmnidisciplinaryScientist Zarah about whether or not Malek's spring water-based ElixirOfLife actually has life-prolonging properties. At the end of the quest, you traveled across the island to five springs, [[spoiler: met a man who was over 138 years old thanks to the spring water, Zarah even starts a long monologue on the amazing properties of spring water]], so the reveal is obviously [[spoiler: that the elixir is fake]]. Interestingly, it is [[spoiler: NOT ineffective cause the spring water is useless (which Zarah acknowledges as possibly actually having life-enhancing powers), but because he uses '''rain water'''.)]]

* FacialHorror: The Architect of Lyndow is said to be disfigured since bird. [[spoiler: When meeting him, one can see that his left face side is hanging low.]]

* GRatedDrug: The Dream Tea. You drink it, fall asleep and have the wildest dreams. There's even a group trying to forbid it's use.

* StreetUrchin: Two children steal apples from Toma's farm due to hunger. [[spoiler: If you tell Toma, he let's them stay with him properly and if you rescue their shipwrecked father, they can go home proper.]]

* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: Tam accidentally sold Toxic Tubers as Zucchinis. He begs you to collect them before people get sick. [[spoiler: You can get one before it is eaten, one client noticed what it is and used it for something more appropiate, one person says they already [[Squick used it]] (and make sure to say it was ''not'' eaten) and for one person is already suffering through the worst pain he ever had.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: The "ElixirOfLife" quest. The setup is between potential SnakeOilSalesman Melek and OmnidisciplinaryScientist Zarah about whether or not Malek's spring water-based ElixirOfLife actually has life-prolonging properties. At the end of the quest, you traveled across the island to five springs, [spoiler: met a man who was over 138 years old thanks to the spring water, Zarah even starts a long monologue on the amazing properties of spring water]], so the reveal is obviously [[spoiler: that the elixir is fake]]. Interestingly, it is [[spoiler: NOT ineffective cause the spring water is useless (which Zarah acknowledges as possibly actually having life-enhancing powers), but because he uses '''rain water'''.)]]

* BaitAndSwitch: The "ElixirOfLife" quest. The setup is between potential SnakeOilSalesman Melek and OmnidisciplinaryScientist Zarah about whether or not Malek's spring water-based ElixirOfLife actually has life-prolonging properties. At the end of the quest, you traveled across the island to five springs, [spoiler: met a man who was over 138 years old thanks to the spring water, Zarah even starts a long monologue on the amazing properties of spring water]], so the reveal is obviously [[spoiler: that the elixir is fake]]. Interestingly, it is [[spoiler: NOT ineffective cause the spring water is useless (which Zarah acknowledges as possibly actually having life-enhancing powers), but because he uses '''rain water'''.)

It has a unique premise in that the game is completely devoid of violence and instead the player is an artist, who arrives on the fantasy island of [[LocationTitle Easthade]] with the goal of creating four grand paintings that are supposed to represent his mother's memories of the place. However, they get shipwrecked right before arriving on the island, and thus lose most of their possessions and money. As such, you lack even the means to make paintings and must support yourself through more conventional means at first, and will need to settle for humbler orders from the island's residents before you get to the four vistas you are after. Moreover, each painting you get requires a certain amount of inspiration to draw, and so you need to be judicious about picking the best view, and not simply painting every single thing you come across.

This game was also preceded by a short 2017 prequel of sorts, ''Leaving Lyndow''. However, it is both very brief (taking up half an hour at most) and lacks Eastshade's core mechanics like painting, and thus is typically disregarded as a glorified demo even by Eastshade's fans.

''Eastshade'' is a unique WideOpenSandbox game, developed by Eastshade Studios and released on February 21st, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], with versions for UsefulNotes/PS4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne released on October 21st, 2019.