Temtem: Pioneers' Downbelow Explained

After the huge success of the original game, Temtem developer Crema started another project called Temtem: Swarm to completely change the principles of the monster collecting game, and now it is gathering thousands of backers on Kickstarter with its new Temtem: Pioneers. While Temtem is one of the best Pokémon-like game out there, support for it ended after the team shipped all the major updates they envisioned for the title. It's still playable and even has online features, but it doesn't get active updates anymore. Enter the new one Temtem: Pioneersa project that launched on Kickstarter with a goal of around $100,000, only to come close to the $500,000 milestone.

There are less than 48 hours left to support Temtem: Pioneers on Kickstarter right now, but fans can get the game for around $30 if they're willing to skip all the fancy Kickstarter extras and the playable alpha when it drops. Still, this is slated for a public release in 2028, so it could be a long wait without the alpha upgrade. With a survival twist on the original game, Temtem: Pioneers caters to a different player base, though it retains its charming creatures and monster-trapping gameplay loops. For Temtem however, fans will be able to explore the so-called Downbelow for the first time.

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Temtem: Pioneers is Survival Meets Monster Taming in the Downbelow

In the original Temtemplayers adventure through the six islands of the Airborne Archipelago, often aboard a ship called the Narwhal to jump from one location to another. IN Temtem: Pioneersthe premise is that the Narwhal crashed on Downbelow, which is basically the ground part of the game's world that isn't floating in the air like the Airborne Archipelago. This is a largely unexplored area that is often feared by the inhabitants of the Airborne Archipelago, as they know very little about it, and it is so far below their floating islands, but in the new game it will be the main environment.

Temtem: Pioneers is very successful on Kickstarter right now, and its developers are sharing more information about the game and its animals. The Downbelow will play an important role in the survival monster-catching title for a few reasons:

Unlike Temtemwhere Tems are found in tall grass like Pokemon, they will be overworld spawns in Temtem: Pioneersmaking Downbelow's different biomes important in determining what kind of animals will be available there.
- Two of the completed stretch goals for Temtem: Pioneers were biomes — Crystal Biome and Dark Forest Biome, with Crystal and Mental Tems, respectively.
Normally, you need to collect and manage resources in survival games, and you can do that in Downbelow i Temtem: Pioneers. Resources can depend on progression and biomes.
You can explore Downbelow by walking and running, but you can also use mounts as crossing companions, as they will be Temtem themselves.
The Tems found in Dowbelow are not the same as those in the Airborne Archipelago. Temtem's Digital Tems aren't available in this new game, but there are several new Tems to find and collect in Downbelow to make up for it.
There will be bosses to defeat in Downbelow to gain access to new areas and rare materials. They will be similar to Alpha Pokemon i Pokemon Legends: ZA in terms of concept, because they are bigger than regular Tems, more aggressive and more powerful.
Temtem: Pioneers is still a monster-taming game at its core, so you'll be able to explore Downbelow and gather resources with Tems by your side to help you fight wild Tems and collect materials faster.

Temtem: Pioneer's own name comes from the fact that you'll play a Narwhal crash survivor in Downbelow and explore it for the first time. So your character is a pioneer of Downbelow.

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Basically, Downbelow is an entirely new area for the series that has been mentioned several times in the original game, but has never been explored by players or NPCs. Usually you can create your base in survival games, and Temtem: Pioneers is no exception, with the proviso that the base will be built somewhere in the Downbelow rather than the Airborne Archipelago, which will remain inaccessible in this game.