Lichenvale
Filip Zemljak · 2023 · FPS, Hack and Slash, Shooter, Action-Adventure, Female Protagonist
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 57
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About Lichenvale
✦ AI summary
Slash through nightmarish horrors in this first-person melee slasher where every sword strike fuels devastating spells and tactical dashes to outwit your enemies. Battle your inner demons across hand-crafted nightmare levels filled with progressively tougher foes, power orbs, and hidden lore that reveals the dark truth behind your fears.
Lichenvale is a first person slasher offering fast-paced melee combat mixed with tactical use of spells and dashing around your enemies developed by ex-Ubisoft employee gone solo dev. Finding yourself trapped in your own nightmares you must battle through nightmarish hordes of monsters representing your innermost fears. Successfully slashing your way out with your trusty longsword will fuel an array of destructive and defensive spells that you can unleash and wreak havoc on your enemies all while dashing or parrying enemy attacks.
Features
- Skill-based fast-paced melee combat in first person perspective with light and strong attacks for offense and parry and dash for defense
- Variety of destructive and defensive spells fueled by slashing up your enemies
- A large selection of progressively stronger enemies, each with their own fighting style
- Various orbs of power scattered across the nightmare which will permanently strengthen your character
- Campaign mode with hand-crafted levels each with their own unique aesthetic
- Treasures scattered around levels to further increase your score
- Hidden collectibles which reveal the connection between enemies and your innermost fears
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
i am not really into old school doom style shooter games, but this one was an exception, i really loved the experience and strongly recommend it both for people who like this genre and for those who enjoy dark games with a gloomy medieval fantasy atmosphere. besides the maps being gothic and amazing, you also face many gothic creatures with different attack styles and bosses, including werewolves, skeletons, dark mages, ghosts and vampires!!23 found this helpful
Played on Linux using Proton Exp as the Linux Native Version has not been updated, I did first play the Linux Native version which works but the combat was not great, The patch 1.5.0 fixes this but only patched for Windows so that's why i changed to using Proton. The Good: Graphics are okay. Sound is okay. Gameplay is okay. The not so Good: Linux build not being patched to match Windows Version. Basic A.I. It's an okay game, nothing special, not the Greatest combat system, Even with the Patch still a bit hit or miss with melee weapons, Spell's work okay as it's just shooter style, A.I. is just see player then attack, so pretty basic. Still it worth a play, if you are not sure about the game then it does have a demo to try. I'd give this Game a Neutral Rating if that was possible on Steam.1 found this helpful
A dollar store game. Worth that dollar, but not a good game by any means.
For a solo Dev, this game is really impressive, but not without flaws. I played on the easiest difficulty and completed the game in about 90 minutes. My main issue with the game is the inability to disable head bob. I don't get motion sickness ever, but the head bob is really intense and started giving me a headache almost immediately. Increasing FoV helps a little bit, but not enough. That aside, the game is fun!
Zemlijak knows how to tickle the surface between tactical breadth and situational complexity. The responsive-yet-weighty magic-and-swordplay feels more like [i]Elder Scrolls[/i] than [i]Dark Souls[/i], and I enjoy experiencing it on a player-skill curve (as opposed to a character-progression curve). Aesthetically, he applies his professionalism to mask the game's low production value, rather than, as we may hope to see, rocking the constraints of his development by styling about them. I am personally unfond of Unreal Engine, but here it couches the mechanics well enough. On the whole, Lichenvale is a treat appropriately kept short and sweet, and I look forward to Zemlijak's future titles if he decides to continue.
Really fun game!
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