Fire in the Beastlands
Chimney Castle · 2021 · Souls-like, Exploration, Metroidvania, Difficult, Action RPG
PC
Positive96% · 24
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About Fire in the Beastlands
Embark on an epic odyssey through prehistory, set at the age of the dawn of man, to reclaim a land conquered by beasts... and die trying. Explore the primitive wilds and ancient wonders of a multi-layered, interconnected world. Outfit yourself to do battle against primeval terrors with exacting combat certain to test your resolve.
"Fire in the Beastlands" is a 2D sidescrolling action-RPG inspired by the many great adventures of an all-but-forgotten past generation of games.
Produced and developed by one man, my promise is to deliver an engaging, challenging, and meaningful journey through the wonders and dangers of a largely under-utilized, seldom-seen prehistoric fantasy - a highly applicable imagining of the struggles of early man discovering his place in the world, and the world discovering the resolve of man.
Key Features:
* DISCOVER: A unique and fantastical setting to discover, staged at the age of the dawn of man.
* EXPLORE: Explore a harrowing variety of environs, including ancient civilizations, tribal villages, caves, sacred sites, shallow seas, mountains, swamps, jungles, and more...
* STORY: A highly-thematic, highly applicable story and mature adventure, fraught with challenges and grim realities.
* WORLD: A meticulously hand-crafted, interconnected world, dripping with secrets, shortcuts, and ancient lore.
* ART: Hand-drawn designs and fully hand-crafted environments, FREE from tilesets. Completely unique backgrounds with NO TWO SCREENS the same!
* ANIMATION: High frame count animations running at 60 FPS ensure smooth movement and fluid combat, and gives you a fair read on your opponents' every move.
* SOUND: Soaring original soundtrack that captures the mystery and wonder of the past. Hard-hitting sound effects that portray the brutality of the flesh.
* COMBAT: Heavy, measured combat against prehistoric monstrosities. Face-off in decisive boss battles against champions, giants, and wondrous beasts.
* LOOT: Dozens and dozens of weapons, armor, shields, charms, masks, and spirit powers to discover and utilize.
"Fire in the Beastlands" is a 2D sidescrolling action-RPG inspired by the many great adventures of an all-but-forgotten past generation of games.
Produced and developed by one man, my promise is to deliver an engaging, challenging, and meaningful journey through the wonders and dangers of a largely under-utilized, seldom-seen prehistoric fantasy - a highly applicable imagining of the struggles of early man discovering his place in the world, and the world discovering the resolve of man.
Key Features:
* DISCOVER: A unique and fantastical setting to discover, staged at the age of the dawn of man.
* EXPLORE: Explore a harrowing variety of environs, including ancient civilizations, tribal villages, caves, sacred sites, shallow seas, mountains, swamps, jungles, and more...
* STORY: A highly-thematic, highly applicable story and mature adventure, fraught with challenges and grim realities.
* WORLD: A meticulously hand-crafted, interconnected world, dripping with secrets, shortcuts, and ancient lore.
* ART: Hand-drawn designs and fully hand-crafted environments, FREE from tilesets. Completely unique backgrounds with NO TWO SCREENS the same!
* ANIMATION: High frame count animations running at 60 FPS ensure smooth movement and fluid combat, and gives you a fair read on your opponents' every move.
* SOUND: Soaring original soundtrack that captures the mystery and wonder of the past. Hard-hitting sound effects that portray the brutality of the flesh.
* COMBAT: Heavy, measured combat against prehistoric monstrosities. Face-off in decisive boss battles against champions, giants, and wondrous beasts.
* LOOT: Dozens and dozens of weapons, armor, shields, charms, masks, and spirit powers to discover and utilize.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This will be the 20th review for this game near 4 years after release, stuck on 'positive' for review aggregates because it doesn't have the numbers to even hit 'mostly positive'. Per steamDB, it has had a maximum concurrent player count of *four*, around the time of first release. Fire in the Beastlands is easily the most obscure game I have in my library. As of this review, it is also my favourite. In brief, Beastlands is a soulslike metroidvania with a Conan the Caveman setting. It works hard to capture two things: the melancholy of the first Dark Souls game, and the sweeping breadth of a grand metroidvania. Somewhere in the execution of these two goals, Beastlands carves an identity of its own. Often vague, verbose, perhaps slightly lopsided, but also lush, engrossing, and brimming with a love for the craft that you feel from that first hit of the main menu music. This is an easy recommendation for anyone looking for that Salt and Sanctuary hit of a 2D soulslike, for any one into the more retro style of metroidvania, and especially for anyone into prehistoric inspired settings. There are simply not enough caveman games of this calibre out there. But critically, this i…6 found this helpful
This is a top-tier indie offering, and I enjoyed every minute of my playthrough. I'm genuinely sad to see it has so few reviews. IMO it deserves the success of something like Salt and Sanctuary. The game does includes some adult themes / images. The game is a Soulslike / Metroidvania hybrid, and it excels at both combat and exploration. The art and animation might seem a bit odd in the store pics, but I found it quite appealing (even beautiful) in-game. The combat is tight. Health and damage balancing feels perfectly tuned throughout the game. Movesets are varied, enemy attacks are well choreographed, and dodging i-frames are fairly generous. (I didn't mess with blocking too much, so I can't comment on that.) Sometimes enemy attacks can feel overbearing, and some bosses may seem impossible first try, but I always felt like there was a way to overcome the challenges the game offered. All the armor, weapons, spells, consumables, key items, and world traversal abilities feel unique and rewarding to find / use. Character build really matters, but the game does allow for stat point respecs. (Not for the consumable upgrade skulls, however. I think you're stuck with your choices on …3 found this helpful
Great game. The gameplay is exactly as advertised, precise souls-like combat and good platforming. Story is more engaging than you'd expect from this. A great one man work-of-art. Worth it.3 found this helpful
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Unga Bunga Souls que no para de darte patadas en los cojones pero entonces desarrollas un kink de CBT.1 found this helpful
I really dug what I played of fires in the beast land and want to play more. Unfortunately I had to refund because there was an issue with steam deck where I couldn’t change what equipment was equipped on my character ( pretty big deal for a soulslike) Hopefully this gets fixed and I can finish it because I love this style of 2d souls
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