While Catnip Games has maintained Forsaken Virtues ever since, SotA as a brand appears to be a Stillborn Franchise at this point. In October 2019, Portalarium sold off all of the game's assets to Catnip Games and presumably shut down, as Garriott soon left to co-found yet another studio, DeMeta, and to develop the NFT-based Iron and Magic in 2022. It entered early access in November 2014 and was finally released in March 2018, but following a lukewarm-to-negative reception, went Free-to-Play in October of the same year. Originally envisioned as the first installment of the Shroud of the Avatar pentalogy, Forsaken Virtues was funded on Kickstarter, collecting over $1.9 million in pledges.
Offline characters are not playable online and vice versa.
In short, it works by allowing you to select which other players (if any) you want to play with, so that no others can join your game. While the game is playable offline, the devs actively promoted its "Selective Multi-Player" mode, which aims to be the middle-ground between small-scale Co-Op Multiplayer and a full-blown MMORPG. You, as the Avatar, return to New Britannia and are tasked with following the eponymous Virtues (Truth, Courage, and Love), facing the Hidden Villain, and ultimately restoring peace and harmony to the world.
Furthermore, the population of the world is under constant threat from the monsters spawned by the Cataclysm, and the prophecies tell about the impending End of an Age, which many fear will be much like the Cataclysm itself. The game is set in a Wide-Open Sandbox of the Constructed World of New Britannia, which is still recovering from the massive Cataclysm that destroyed the old civilization several generations ago. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is Richard "Lord British" Garriott's Spiritual Successor both to his own cult RPG series Ultima and to its MMORPG offshoot, Ultima Online, created by his new studio Portalarium.
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