1348 Ex VotoPS5

1348 Ex Voto is a cinematic action-adventure game. The game takes place in 1348, in medieval Italy and tells the story of Aeta (voiced by Alby Baldwin) during her brutal journey across the Italian Peninsula to find her closest one, Bianca (Jennifer English), after bandits have raided their village.

1348 Ex Voto is the first project of newly founded studio Sedleo, an Italian team created by Tom Oceano (game director) and Fabiola Martelli (studio director). Tom and Fabiola recruited a team of international AAA veterans to give life to their own stories and high-quality games.

As an Italian team, Italy was an obvious choice to Sedleo as they wished to create life-like environments, they spent a lot of time in the rural parts of the peninsula to explore the landscapes and record everything they needed to design an accurate and plausible world to the story they wanted to tell.

Then came the choice of the year, 1348, which represents a dire year in Italy history. Following the spread of diseases and pestilence across the country, instability had taken a turn for the worse in the already fragile medieval society. Population faced increased violence and criminality from bandits and mercenaries, while religious zealots ran amok in the region. At the same time, higher stratum suffered from a vacuum of power which led to a crippled leadership.

It is in these circumstances that Aeta, a young noble, lost trace of her closest one, Bianca, following a bandits raid on their village. Since Aeta had been training to become a knight, she takes on the task to find Bianca herself, which will lead her across a brutal journey, exploring and fighting her way through medieval Italy to reach her goal.