You have 25 seconds to execute your action, be it blasting an enemy, manoeuvring your operative, or setting up your next move. Matches in Lemnis Gate take place within time loops. Challenge yourself to think across four dimensions as you embark on the ultimate test of cognition and combat. Lemnis Gate twists time to subvert one of the world’s most popular game genres and offers a relentlessly inventive multiplayer experience deeply rooted in tactical FPS gameplay. Over five alternating turns taking place in a 25” time-loop, you are called to master the unique abilities of a varied cast of deep-space operatives and outskill, outsmart, and outmanoeuvre your opponent in mind-bending four-dimensional battles. Lemnis Gate is a time-warping, turn-based combat strategy FPS. Don't you see, the threads holding you up – also hold you back.' Who can Abby trust? Can she find a way to truly break free? Despite dangling from her threads, will Abby learn that she can still influence her destiny? 'Abby, Abby. Her adventure is always accompanied by the lyrical rhymes of puppet master Jack, who tells her story while holding the strings of his puppets firmly in his ever-helpful hands. Alas, freedom comes at a cost and Abby soon finds herself dragged into the dangers this world has to offer: In a war-torn, medieval fairy tale, surrounded by ravaged, starving citizens and hunted by the relentless cut-throat Tonda, Abby has to cross raging rivers, make it through bandit camps and around traps. One day, she escapes the circus and gets to explore a mystical world.

'Ladies and Gentlemen! Come in, come in! In the mood for a story, are we?' Abby is an artiste held captive at a circus: She spends her days entertaining the audience and her nights in a cage, longing for freedom. Use the puppet’s strings in unique puzzles, find your way around obstacles, and evade the relentless cut-throats that are hot on your heels – while the puppet master holds the strings firmly in his hands.

Play as Abby, the marionette, and make your way through a medieval fairy tale world to find freedom. A Juggler’s Tale is a cinematic puzzle-platformer.

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