Blackfaun
Wild Guess Software · 2016 · Action, RPG, Indie, Female Protagonist, Roguelike
PC
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About Blackfaun
BLACKFAUN is a fast paced roguelike with RPG elements, it is built on the principles of skill-based, challenging combat and replayability.
Players will join a faun tasked with a mysterious quest given to her by her parents. To prove her worth as heiress to the crown, she must battle her way through unforgiving, randomly-generated dungeons on her journey of self-discovery. Along the way, you will uncover an incredible variety of powerful items with over 100 mechanics and thousands of additional stat variations. You’ll fight against cunning and relentless enemies that employ advanced tactics and abilities to exploit your weaknesses.
Featuring a different experience on each play-through, Blackfaun aims to deliver a unique experience built on a solid foundation of fun, intense combat. Drawing inspiration from some of our favorite games, Blackfaun will bring dungeons to life with vibrant colors, clean character designs, and a rich original soundtrack for a fully immersive experience.
Battle your way through cunning and relentless enemies that employ advanced tactics and abilities to exploit your weaknesses.
Explore unforgiving, procedurally-generated dungeons as you help Eri on her journey of self-discovery. Enjoy endless hours of Blackfaun fun as you experience new layouts on each playthrough.
Along the way, you will uncover an incredible variety of powerful items with over 100 mechanics and thousands of additional stat variations.
Unfold the relationship between Eri and her estranged brother, Pan, as each character shares their perspective of events. Their mysterious journey is accompanied by a rich and original soundtrack.
VANQUISH your foes as you brave your way through harsh environments, each with its own set of baddies that try to hinder Eri in her quest for truth.
This isn’t your standard ARPG. You’ll be on the move dodging projectiles and melee attacks, pushing enemies out of your path, turning ethereal, and making use of a huge variety of spell effects to stay alive against all kinds of creatures.
DISCOVER tons of items that boost your ability to dispatch your foes! Blackfaun aims to deliver a replayable experience that relies on play skill rather than time-played. As Eri, you will be collecting gear -- hidden throughout the environments and guarded by fearsome boss monsters.
In the process, balance your inventory by choosing between powerful stats and special abilities granted by different items. Be on the lookout for consumables left behind by fallen enemies to help replenish your resources.
NAVIGATE a carefully crafted world -- goblin forests, haunted temples, dank sewers, and decadent palaces. Blackfaun places emphasis on each individual playthrough as its own experience rather than a grind to the top of the level meter.
EXPERIENCE the plot as it unfolds. Eri, along with her birth-rune, Lex, seek to uncover the meaning of the quest her parents tasked her with. Eri is the heir apparent, but must complete her trial before she can claim the throne. On their journey, the two encounter Pan -- Eri’s long-estranged brother. After dismissing him initially, Eri and Lex being to wonder about his intentions as they try to parse his riddles.
Players will join a faun tasked with a mysterious quest given to her by her parents. To prove her worth as heiress to the crown, she must battle her way through unforgiving, randomly-generated dungeons on her journey of self-discovery. Along the way, you will uncover an incredible variety of powerful items with over 100 mechanics and thousands of additional stat variations. You’ll fight against cunning and relentless enemies that employ advanced tactics and abilities to exploit your weaknesses.
Featuring a different experience on each play-through, Blackfaun aims to deliver a unique experience built on a solid foundation of fun, intense combat. Drawing inspiration from some of our favorite games, Blackfaun will bring dungeons to life with vibrant colors, clean character designs, and a rich original soundtrack for a fully immersive experience.
FORTY UNIQUE ENEMIES AND BOSSES
Battle your way through cunning and relentless enemies that employ advanced tactics and abilities to exploit your weaknesses.
PROCEDURALLY GENERATED DUNGEONS
Explore unforgiving, procedurally-generated dungeons as you help Eri on her journey of self-discovery. Enjoy endless hours of Blackfaun fun as you experience new layouts on each playthrough.
A LARGE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT ITEMS
Along the way, you will uncover an incredible variety of powerful items with over 100 mechanics and thousands of additional stat variations.
ORIGINAL STORY AND SOUNDTRACK
Unfold the relationship between Eri and her estranged brother, Pan, as each character shares their perspective of events. Their mysterious journey is accompanied by a rich and original soundtrack.
VANQUISH your foes as you brave your way through harsh environments, each with its own set of baddies that try to hinder Eri in her quest for truth.
This isn’t your standard ARPG. You’ll be on the move dodging projectiles and melee attacks, pushing enemies out of your path, turning ethereal, and making use of a huge variety of spell effects to stay alive against all kinds of creatures.
DISCOVER tons of items that boost your ability to dispatch your foes! Blackfaun aims to deliver a replayable experience that relies on play skill rather than time-played. As Eri, you will be collecting gear -- hidden throughout the environments and guarded by fearsome boss monsters.
In the process, balance your inventory by choosing between powerful stats and special abilities granted by different items. Be on the lookout for consumables left behind by fallen enemies to help replenish your resources.
NAVIGATE a carefully crafted world -- goblin forests, haunted temples, dank sewers, and decadent palaces. Blackfaun places emphasis on each individual playthrough as its own experience rather than a grind to the top of the level meter.
EXPERIENCE the plot as it unfolds. Eri, along with her birth-rune, Lex, seek to uncover the meaning of the quest her parents tasked her with. Eri is the heir apparent, but must complete her trial before she can claim the throne. On their journey, the two encounter Pan -- Eri’s long-estranged brother. After dismissing him initially, Eri and Lex being to wonder about his intentions as they try to parse his riddles.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise the game's visual design and fun core concept, but multiple reviews cite severe technical issues that make it unplayable or frustrating: game-breaking bugs like rooms failing to unlock, enemies becoming unkillable due to inverted health bars, broken achievements, control input problems across keyboard and controller, and platform-specific crashes on Mac. Most concerning is the apparent developer abandonment, with players reporting months-old unanswered bug reports and forum posts, leaving the game in an unfinished state despite its recent exit from Early Access.
Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this game in it's current state. It has come out of Early Access a few months ago, but still has some glaring bugs and incomplete features. It also seems the developers have abandoned the game, lots of unanswered threads in the forum, including the bug report I submitted two months ago.9 found this helpful
It can be a fun game in theory, but there's just too many bugs. Rooms that fail to unlock after you defeat all the enemies, thus trapping you inside and obliging you to return to menu and restart the level. Enemies whose health falls to zero and then goes negative, drawing a health bar extending backward out of their health-bar-box which only grows as you inflict more damage, rendering them unkillable and again obliging you to restart the level. Achievements with bugged conditions (failing to register 8 lasers having been candle-dodged vs. Mosh; failing to register 20 turrets destroyed vs. the hydra boss [destroyed 25 just to make sure, but no achievement]; failing to register winning the game as Pan toward the win-game-x-times achievement; ...). Cannot recommend.7 found this helpful
This game looks amazing, but its downfall is the horrible controls. With keyboard, you use WASD to move. The problem with this is, I had to press both W and D to move in a straight line. And that only worked sometimes. With a controller, it is even worse! I had to set my own controls, which I thought was a bit odd. I tried both the stick and the D-pad on my Xbox controller. To move from left to right, I had to press up, right, down, right, down, right, down. This got me across the opening area. Then I had to press up, left, down, left, up, down to get to the door. And the action button to open the door never worked at all. I definitely had more fun with keyboard (both because I actually made some progress and because, since it had been on my wishlist for so long, I willed myself to find some pleasure in it). The graphics are quite nice, but that is the only redeeming quality. The onscreen dialogue between the two playable characters (you have to unlock one I think; only one could be chosen from the menu) is painfully cheesy, the nonsense you would expect from siblings on a Disney show. The game itself had some oddities. I am not sure why I was collecting purple balls of light; th…6 found this helpful
The game has bugs on the Mac OS X version. When you die, a screen pops up with no options to click on. It's blank. I had to force quit the game and lost all progress. Sadly it's not ready for OS X user's. It could be the Steam client also. My PS4 controller didn't work either. The game it's self seems okay, but a little slow for an Action RPG Twin Stick shooter type of game. I need more time with it to really review it, but in it's current state, I can't play it and progress. Oh well... This is just a warning for OS X user's. I'd report the error, but I am tired of reporting OS X errors which seems to be many here on Steam these days. I never have this issue with Mac Game Store, App Store or GOG games. They all work fine with Mac OS X. Even games I have on Steam that don't work, work when purchased them again from those other sites. Not sure about Steam anymore... I have a lot of games that used to work here on Steam that don't work anymore due to Steam updates. EDIT: I read the forums and this is a KNOWN bug!!! Windows user's are having the same problem. Fix it please!!! Hardware Overview: Model Name: MacBookPro 11,5 (Mid 2015) Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Pro…2 found this helpful
might be good later...right now, it's not. :( i am willing to change my review once they implement more weapons, magic/attacks, and better targeting...2 found this helpful
A decent roguelike.
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