Your worst fear is the audience’s indifference. Your best weapon is a dazzling amusement. Your artists are your army. Behold, the circus came to town!

The Amazing American Circus tells a story of the most iconic entertainment in American history. The USA, during the Gilded Age, is a turbulent place. On the East Coast springs up a modern metropolis, while in the west, cowboys and robber barons fight for their business. The new era is coming, and this is the last right moment for the circus to flourish!

This is a place and time where you will have to write your own story and build a circus empire. You take the role of an impoverished owner of a traveling Circus. Through your personal and multithreaded story, The Amazing American Circus reveals mysteries behind a uniquely American form of entertainment, full of bizarre folklore, brutal crime, and social inequality as it depicts a story of a struggle between a newcomer and an industry giant - P.T. Barnum.

The United States was a new, developing country with settlers steadily pushing the American frontier… To reach their public at the time, showmen had little choice but to travel light and fast. You will visit legendary places and meet real historical characters being a part of the American circus heritage. You will plan your trip and adapt your artistic offer to different groups of spectators in a constant struggle to provide hard-working Americans with the entertainment they deserve! The Amazing American Circus is a classic ‘travel’ game. Emerge from the South West and reach the progressive North East while seeking fame, glory, and fortune.

Klabater has launching a Kickstarter campaign for The Amazing American Circus, looking to raise $12,075.

Globally, thousands of wild animals are used in circuses and forced to perform demeaning and unnatural tricks to entertain the public. In Klabater we are wholly opposed to the use of wild animals in circuses and consider the practice unethical. And, while working on a game about a circus life, we do want to be a part of the movement that helps change the fate of the animals in circuses.

Here’s our commitment:

Deliver a perfect show in a special card duel between you and the audience. Their boredom is your enemy, and your performances and tricks are the best weapons. Choose your cards wisely and try to figure out the mood of the crowd. What’s attractive in the deep South won’t necessarily work in the industrialized North!

As the traveling Circus owner, you desperately need to look for new troupe members while competing with other circuses. You will gather an exotic crew of strange individuals who will perform for you, but can you deliver the best shows around while traveling from coast to coast? And remember, you will not become a Circus giant with a bunch of few selected performers. You will continuously have to replace entertainers to make your show attractive for different audiences.

Unique story, love affairs, and hateful enemies, magnificent shows with challenging audiences and quests, all of this wrapped up in a writing style of the dime novels from the turn of the 20th century - that’s what The Amazing American Circus offers.

Key Features:

• Become a circus legend! Save a run-down circus, assemble a troupe of performers and challenge the greatest showman on Earth: P.T. Barnum himself.
• Recruit and train over 15 different types of circus artists
• Take part in exciting battles in the circus arena using the beautifully illustrated collectible cards
• Upgrade your circus caravan thanks to different types of wagons offering over 100 possible modifications
• Meet both historical and fictional characters deeply embedded in American folklore, such as John D. Rockefeller, Susan B. Anthony, or Nikola Tesla
• Immerse yourself in a story taking place during the turbulent era of the fading Wild West and enter the beautiful and dark world of Native American folklore and the immigrant populace
• 60 minutes of a soundtrack inspired by country and folk music from different parts of the USA
• 170 hand-illustrated cards
• 15 types of circus artists, among them mimes, strongmen, and acrobats
• 12 different circus wagons unlocking new skills and options
• 16 different types of audience, whom you have to attract and entertain
• Over 100 modifications and upgrade options for your circus caravan
• 90 cities and towns to visit
• 4 distinct geographical regions - travel across the American continent
• 1 powerful opponent to defeat - the legendary P.T. Barnum
• 1 but epic adventure akin to Buzz Luhrman’s musicals, Ennio Morricone’s westerns, and the classic road movies

The Amazing American Circus will be available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam) on May 20, 2021.