Trivia / Curious Expedition

• What Could Have Been: According to the artbook:
  • There's unused title screens. In some of them, the game isn't named The Curious Expedition but Terra Incognita.
  • The map was a square grid instead of a hex grid.
  • The player character would have been able to use triangulation when exploring the map (which would hve resulted in experience gain or points of interest's reveal).
  • Hot air balloon could have been used to travel on the worldmap.^note In the actual game, it only serves to go back to London, either to abort the current expedition or to finish the mission after uncovering the Golden Pyramid in Hard difficulty.
  • Combat system included a feature taking the party members' position in account. Position of units, their type of attack (melee / ranged), and whether the enemy front row was empty or not served to determine the available targets of an unit. This feature does show up in the sequel.
  • There was a crafting feature, allowing to build rafts, bridges, outposts... The outpost was reworked few times during beta, until it became a re-usable Camp Site equipment.
  • There's a screenshot of the roster featuring Levi Herzfeld among the other player characters. He doesn't appear in the final game.

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