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[Rift]

As i backed this 2 years ago, i thought it worth mention that it is finally out on early access [$15 until may 9]
Website: http://darkforgegames.com/nekro/

I played it for a bit over a hour and a half today.

First Thoughts:

Used the melee-style necromancer, felt a bit weak/fragile later on, but overall combat feels very fluid and challenging with my grappling hook, and spinning dashes. [you start by picking 1 of 3 nekro's with different styles/abilities]

Very gorey ingame, decent narrator for the -inbetween- descriptions that are basically identical to dungeon keepers campaign plot style, darkish style 'humour' thats ok, but not as good as bullfrog's.

Takes a bit to get actual 'minion' style minions (the first couple are like AOE arrow, freeze/Dmg Aoe arrow, plant-turret), the 4th being the pudge, a melee minion that on death explodes AOE. Your first 'minion', the AOE arrow, can also create minions from a few things scattered around levels: jackolaterns, skeletons[not corpses], a troll egg. Also if you cast some of your summon minion spells on corpses they get supercharged.

You also acquire items as you go, that are basically 1-3 use mini-spells [you get them back every new level, so you pick the 4 you want].

You spend 'sins' that you collect during levels, from completeing levels/some monster drops[mini-bosses mostly] to buy new minion-types and upgrades for minions, you also collect 'powers', 1 per level that upgrade your nekro's damage/life/mana

You also can eat corpses to get blood, and some is left when you outright destroy bodies.. which is your 'mana', picking it up also heals you and nearby allies/summons.

Overall, it feels very polished, i had 0 bugs at all, which is a bit amazing to me for a early access game.
I haven't tried the Co-op, since very few people own it atm, but i have no reason to believe it doesn't work...

I'm unsure how long the actual content is, i seemed to be moving through the world/levels fairly quickly. Apparently they are going to keep adding stuff, like more nekros, summons, trinkets, more levels, more boss fights ect...

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Also, in-game looks  better then the actual screens.. not sure why the game screenshots so poorly...

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[Puzzlemaker]

I love necromancers in games!  This looks interested, I will keep an eye on it.

[lordcooper]

I played a few hours of this earlier and I'm really impressed so far.  The difficulty ramps up quite dramatically once you get a few levels in.

[lordcooper]

http://puu.sh/ogXlV/49890c9d3d.jpg

The original thread on the Steam forums has since been deleted, along with any other thread mentioning these allegations.  The subreddit is currently invite only.

[Ozyton]

I don't know anything about this game, this is the first I'm actually hearing about it. I just came here to say that in the age of the internet it is very, very, very silly to think that you will accomplish anything other than admitting guilt by deleting threads and locking accounts etc. to try to cover up things like this.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

http://puu.sh/ogXlV/49890c9d3d.jpg

The original thread on the Steam forums has since been deleted, along with any other thread mentioning these allegations.  The subreddit is currently invite only.

Godspeed to this guy.

[lordcooper]

FWIW the game is actually pretty damn good and easily 90% of the way towards being a finished product.

[ChairmanPoo]

I got it on some bundle or another a while ago. It's not bad, but not exactly my can of beans. A bit too linear; they dumped  most procedural content early on, unfortunately, IIRC.

[cider]

The game has now been removed from the Steam store, and the official website has been taken down. Guess there was truth in the allegations pictured above.

[nenjin]

Or they took it down while the dispute is being investigated.

[cider]

Or they took it down while the dispute is being investigated.

If it was only the Steam store, sure, but the website and the dev log has been taken down as well.

[lordcooper]

I got banned from the forum for asking why he thought censorship did anything but make him look guilty.

[Ozyton]

You probably shouldn't have expected anything else from someone like that.

[ChairmanPoo]

The game is currently in a holding pattern. I see no point in furthering any discussion about anything really concerning the game. The ability to purchase the game has been brought down as a sign or respect to those who would purchase the game thinking it's in an active state. I said I would be making an annoucement about the state of the game and I still intend to do that.

ho hum

I'll say something, however: Unlike some other developers I could name, he had the good taste of removing the game from the steam shop when this crisis happened, instead of leaving it in to cash random $$ from uninformed passerbys

[nenjin]

*starts microwaving some popcorn*