Slain: The Seven Towers
Slain is a PC game being developed by Andrew Gilmour and published by Wolfbrewgames. It's in a retro style that I love, and is heavy on the gothic horror. Demons and Bleeding trees and a hero with a big beard and a giant sword. What can I say? I like indie games with a 16-bit style with detailed backgrounds. And gothic horror is always fun. I think Slain fits the bill, so I'm in support of it. The website over at wolfbrew games has information if you care to know more. You can also like their page over on facebook. I did.
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Courier of the Crypts
This game is another 16-bit style game being developed by a tiny team- 2 people, by the names of Primoz Vovk and Zdravko Djorjevic. The game is a top down dungeon explorer with the central mechanic revolving around lighting torches and solving puzzles. This mechanic seems reminiscent of the third Zelda game. Graphically, the imagery looks to be tailored to the different lighting effects.
The team did not reach their goal with their indiegogo campaign. While the campaign is closed, there is a demo available, and the game did achieve greenlight status on Steam.
I originally heard about this game from an article in indie gaming news, a prolific website with regular news on upcoming indie games.
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Both of these games look pretty awesome although I think I would feel less intimidated by Slain.
ReplyDeleteMy only critique of Slain, is that it looks like the guy swings the sword pretty slowly, but that might be an intentional mechanic that the player has to learn to get over.