Loot Run
Three Guys Game Studio · 2018 · Adventure, RPG, Indie
PC
2 user reviews50% · 2
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About Loot Run
Loot Run features a moving story with twists and secrets. Prepare to be engaged in an RPG you will never forget!
Anora
A mysterious young woman appears in the middle of nowhere. Does she have something to do with the strange events unfolding in the kingdom?
“We may be immortal, but without adding to our number...no new people...no new ideas...we aren’t living.”
Carthage
Commander of the Kingdom Army. Peerless combatant. Steadfast. When faced with containing a dangerous plague, will he enact the king’s purge order?
“I died here. My body burned. My armor will be evidence.”
Drax
A fearless warrior, Drax’s self-inscribed battle axe is the last thing his enemies will ever see. What he lacks in intelligence he makes up in strength.
“Gaahaaha! Did ya see how far his head flew? A new record!”
Malak
Head of the Kingdom’s intelligence network, he prefers to resolve problems by avoiding confrontation and working behind the scenes.
“You might consider going around. He has a full company, and they want to kill you. Most are psycho.”
Nathaniel
He's the youngest member of the kingdom’s elite force. His combat skill is only slightly overshadowed by his snarky confidence.
“Color me pink and pin a tail on my butt cheeks, look who it is!”
Hey, I'm the programmer for Three Guys Game Studio. The 'studio' consists of myself, my brother (artist) and our buddy (musician). We're all self-taught in our fields (which means we fly by the seat of our pants and make mistakes often), have full-time jobs, and love video games enough to spend a significant amount of our free time making and/or playing them.
Loot Run is our current project and it's been in the works for a few years now.
We've created a linear RPG where you'll experience the core story while building a custom skill set and understanding of the game mechanics. Game mechanics are deceptively complex. It's a runner, so movement is limited to avoiding obstacles. The player assigns 6 skills to the skill bar (from a total of 36 unlockable) all with different synergies, strengths and weaknesses. Combat is one enemy at a time and fast paced. Some skills require a high skill cap, some are more spammable, and they all work differently together. The depth of Loot Run lies with the player's skill choices, specialization choices, and gear selection.
Upon completion of the story (8-10 hours) the player enters into the more competitive aspects of Loot Run - Endless and Hardcore modes.
Endless mode challenges you to take your character and build the perfect gear/skill set to survive more and more difficult days (waves of enemies) in the Abyss. The further you get, the sweeter rewards, extra challenges and achievements you'll unlock.
Hardcore Mode
Hardcore mode is the purest form of Loot Run.
We thought long and hard about whether to ONLY have Hardcore Mode, but in the end decided too much of the game's potential would be missed if we did. Hardcore mode puts the player at the beginning of the story with nothing, pits him or her against more difficult enemies with less powerful gear drops, does not allow quitting mid-level or changing skills except after boss battles, and death is permanent; another Hardcore character needs to be started from the beginning.
If you manage to complete the story, hardcore endless mode begins! While in normal endless mode you'd have the luxury of storing extra gear, farming, and maximizing specs, hardcore endless mode doesn't allow for any of this. You have to work with what you see & swap in skills or gear on the fly that will best take you as far as you can go! And once you've pushed it to the limit and finally die...time for another Hardcore character with different loot and different skill optimization to push even higher up the hard core leader board!
We hope to see you in Loot Run soon!
-Three Guys
Features:
- 8-10 Hours Core Game & Story
- 36 Skills, each with specialization choices, allowing for near infinite theory-crafting combinations
- Hundreds of Common through Legendary Gear pieces, each graphically represented on your hero upon equip
- A full list of orchestra-quality story enhancing music
- Endless dungeon mode
- Hardcore mode (character death is permanent - how long will you survive?)
- 50 quests to complete
- Unlock skins, find unique weapons, theory-craft the most effective build/gear set to survive longer and farther than your friends!
- Challenging boss battles
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Updated Review: Loading times significantly improved. Battle pace is quicker after continuing to play (as Dev mentioned). There also seems to be more loot to get the ball rolling earlier. Now that gameplay is rolling it is more enjoyable, looting is particularly streamlined to get back into the fight. The soundtrack is pleasant and non-invasive but it would be great to have a toggle to solely turn the music off (currently, disabling music also disables battle sounds). Overall, a simple sidescroll run-fight-loot-upgrade game (it feels like it would play bettter on mobile) but improved by dev updates. I still cannot recommend it at $4.99 USD since it's a free browser game at ArcadeSpot. It would be worth recommending at 99 cents. Original Review 01JUN18: Frustrating, slow to load, unaesthetic (which would be fine if other things were good) and the combat feels constained. I suggest passing until they fix the pacing and awkwardness of combat.5 found this helpful
Initally this was my review: [i]Game stopped working. Cannot launch it. First launch was okay... This issue is not only occurring to me:[/i] https://steamcommunity.com/app/733570/discussions/0/2549465882927982918/#c1694917906651595592 But after fixing save (by mailing Dev**) and playing it for a bit... I must admit, this is pretty boring game, at least for PC*. Despite having some keyboard shortcuts, I could not bare it feeling half-turn based game. It made me feel slow within the game. Or, keyboard... sometimes you can use space to skip text, sometimes it needs to be enter (if cutscene). And I have no idea if there is any button to choose between "take" or "keep" when you meet loot, but I press with mouse. Then I need to quickly get my hand back on arrows, otherwise I might get into trap. Graphics are weird - at first glance they are okay, but then, some animations happen and it's not that beautiful. And sometimes it's otherwise. Music is definitely strong point. Story seems confusing to me. Maybe I have read it too fast, or it had too much chaos... And there was weird bug that game closed while I was checking my characters stats and I clicked one of them... Considering all th…5 found this helpful
Really enjoying Loot Run! The combat style is a bit like 'skill rotations' from World of Warcraft. Some skills build up your 'adrenaline' resource, others spend it. The 6 skills you're given at the beginning have a decent rotation aspect to them, with some contextual usage as well. The game really gets going once you start using keys to unlock and upgrade skills. After reading through them all, I could probably spend hours just theory-crafting which ones to use together for powerful effects. Choosing gear that is appropriate for the skills you're using comes into play as well, but I've also found myself switching in skills that go with that legendary sword I just found. I would recommend reading the story. It comes in spurts, but (without giving too much away) there is huge payoff later in the game if you've been following what's going on. Next up is trying to get farther than the forest in Hardcore mode...4 found this helpful
I had low expectations when I started this up. After about 15-minutes, Loot Run won me over. Despite some graphic bugs and a crash when getting a really good new weapon (didn't get to keep it), this is in pretty good shape for Early Access. The gameplay is basically your character on a rail battling enemies and occasionally dodging environmental objects. You gain levels and choose how to upgrade skills to create your preferred type of build. And of course, what kind of game would Loot Run be without loot? There's a lot of it and you get new gear constantly. If you're interested, this is certainly worth keeping an eye on to see if the devs continue to polish the game, add content and squash bugs in regular updates. If that happens, buy with confidence.3 found this helpful
Received a key after playing through beta and testing in the early stages. This game has come a long way from how it was when I was first testing it. The story is key and will draw you in which is rare for newer games. Did one full run through of the normal mode story, and with the huge list of skills and diverse boss fights, you won't get tired.1 found this helpful
Yeah not bad. Plenty of play time for 5 bucks.
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