Beard & Axe
Dwarfaparte · 2018 · Dwarves, Action, Adventure, Indie, 2D
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About Beard & Axe
Beard and Axe is a top-down, action adventure rogue-lite from Dwarfaparte, a one man indie dev.
The Dwarf King of Half-Axe Hold has decided that his time to rule has grown overlong, and drinks from the ancient beer cask. Creeping up slowly from his feet, the King's body turns to stone, preparing his entry into the hall of ancestral rulers that preceded him. All would be successors will need to swear and fulfill many oaths if they wish to rule the hold.
As Old Beard, you will venture out into the world above to recover your clan's lost relics, collect magical powders and ammunitions, and fight a wide variety of foul creatures. Failure means loss of the honor that has been added to your clan name through the ages, and if too much is lost, your quest will be over before you can complete it!
But it's not as simple as it seems.
Before each quest you decide to embark upon, you must swear and sign solemn oaths. Going to the lost mines? How much black powder will you bring back? How many balls of shot? Will you be attempting to recover your families ancestral rune stein? Even if you survive and make it back to the exit, if you lack even one of the amount you swore to return with, you'll lose half of everything you carry and any artifact you found!
Other dwarfs also are fulfilling their own oaths, and if you're not quick enough, instead of becoming king, you'll end up as one of their thanes or (beards forbid!) merely master of arms. To become king, you'll not only need to fulfill your oaths to the letter, but complete them all before your competitors!
- A challenging rogue lite adventure
- Decide how much you want to achieve and bring how much you want to risk on each quest
- Use various magic gun powders and runic bullets to gain an advantage over 50+ unique enemy types
- Drink Dwarven Ale to restore your health, just remember too much can lead to poor aim and tripping over your own beard!
- Procedurally generated levels for every adventure
- Irondwarf mode! (Yes it's Ironman mode)
- 4 unique endings
The Dwarf King of Half-Axe Hold has decided that his time to rule has grown overlong, and drinks from the ancient beer cask. Creeping up slowly from his feet, the King's body turns to stone, preparing his entry into the hall of ancestral rulers that preceded him. All would be successors will need to swear and fulfill many oaths if they wish to rule the hold.
As Old Beard, you will venture out into the world above to recover your clan's lost relics, collect magical powders and ammunitions, and fight a wide variety of foul creatures. Failure means loss of the honor that has been added to your clan name through the ages, and if too much is lost, your quest will be over before you can complete it!
But it's not as simple as it seems.
Before each quest you decide to embark upon, you must swear and sign solemn oaths. Going to the lost mines? How much black powder will you bring back? How many balls of shot? Will you be attempting to recover your families ancestral rune stein? Even if you survive and make it back to the exit, if you lack even one of the amount you swore to return with, you'll lose half of everything you carry and any artifact you found!
Other dwarfs also are fulfilling their own oaths, and if you're not quick enough, instead of becoming king, you'll end up as one of their thanes or (beards forbid!) merely master of arms. To become king, you'll not only need to fulfill your oaths to the letter, but complete them all before your competitors!
- A challenging rogue lite adventure
- Decide how much you want to achieve and bring how much you want to risk on each quest
- Use various magic gun powders and runic bullets to gain an advantage over 50+ unique enemy types
- Drink Dwarven Ale to restore your health, just remember too much can lead to poor aim and tripping over your own beard!
- Procedurally generated levels for every adventure
- Irondwarf mode! (Yes it's Ironman mode)
- 4 unique endings
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
When we first booted up the game we quickly became quite confused and puzzled as to the different controls as we somewhat expected the different buttons to be different than what the default layout appeared to be, thankfully this can be changed through the options in the game and as a nice added bonus and to our surprise the game also features the ability to use a Gamepad if one wished to do so. Unfortunately for us though we do not currently possess a functioning Gamepad and thus this review will be with the experience of using a keyboard instead, however seeing the ability to use a Gamepad if one wished to do so was a rather nice feature nonetheless. The game features a nice set of tutorials if one so wished to go through them each tutorial explaining the various different mechanics rather well and very detailed, it also allowed you to practise said mechanics if necessary which was rather useful. Each mechanic felt very fluid and easy to pull off often requiring a simple press of a single button which for someone new to PC gaming such as ourselves was very helpful. As we continued onwards we noticed that the game seems rather quiet with very little music, though this perhaps i…1 found this helpful
I really wanted to like this game, specially since I got it for free from the devs. But sadly it's not good. * Way too grindy You're constantly forced to go back to dungeons you've already clear to get provisions. * Boring combat Combat is really dull, as it mostly consists of waiting around for enemies to come to you, striking, running - rinse and repeat The fact that you have to grind to even be able to use your ranged weapon doesn't help either. Enemies have no sense of strategy. Encounters constantly repeat with only the number of enemies changin until you get to a new dungeon. For more details - here's a video review: https://youtu.be/pcwAFR4sEh81 found this helpful
A very challenging and fun game with neat concepts. I really like the music and presentation.
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