ELDERBORN
Hyperstrange · 2020 · First-Person, Souls-like, Dark Fantasy, Dark, Hack and Slash
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About ELDERBORN
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Slice through a dark fantasy city as a brutal first-person slayer, mastering 11 weapons and souls-like combat in this five-year indie passion project. Uncover ancient secrets across hand-crafted environments while forging your own legend through skill-based gameplay and character progression that rewards creative playstyles.
ELDERBORN is a Metal Action Fantasy Slasher with brütal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, the barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. The player becomes a merciless slayer who will uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom, and forge their own destiny. This ambitious indie game, five years in the making, combines old-school single-player feel, a classic heroic story, and modern level of skill-based challenge. All this and more creates an action-packed, lore-filled, engaging adventure that will last 8-10 hours in a single play-through. Prepare for:
- Skill-based, souls-like melee combat in first person perspective, complete with 11 varied weapons to master
- Character progression and skill system that allows you to play the game in your very own way
- A hand-crafted, mysterious, and dangerous world to explore - catacombs, ancient, monolithic city, and more
- A large selection of enemies, each with their own fighting style, tricks, strengths, and weaknesses
- An epic and somewhat exotic original heavy metal soundtrack with an occasional electronic beat
- An unapologetic tribute to Robert E. Howard-esque heroic fantasy and the awesome pop-culture of the 80's and 90's
- New Game + mode!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Nifty, short, first-person melee souls-like1 found this helpful
I recommend this game if you don't mind that it is short and unfinished. The combat is fun, the soundtrack is cool, the environments and layouts are decent/good until the unfinished part...but it is unfinished.
No, it sucks. It's boring, the combat is easy but tedious because it's as unsatisfying as melee in Skyrim and there's no point in using anything but the hammer
Weapons are either boring or useless, enemies are improved in the second chapter but design is confusing and ugly. Only first boss fight is fun when games forces you to use parry and timing your attacks. You can also tell the developers got jaded midway through designing the third chapter! There are some fun moment.
Nice game, but too short - it ends jsut as the story is getting good. Ideally there should have been another chapter where you face off against [spoiler] your tribe's elders [/spoiler] . Some of the weapons are kind of meh as well - the beginner sword falls off even before you leave the catacombs, the second spear is just a reskin and only useful for farming souls, the second heavy sword and mace don't really do anything too well compared to the first ones. Solid 7/10 game.
Neither "Metal" nor anything like a Souls-game (except for respawning enemies when using fountains). Most weapons suck, Chapter 2 is a miserable experience if you are using one that can't parry. Speaking of Chapter 2: ugly, confusing, annoying. Chapter 3 is not even worth talking about. This game might have been fun, if they only released Chapter 1 as a free prologue or something.
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