The game is a rouge-like, similar to FTL: Faster Than Light, where you have 72 hours before an ancient God returns to the world to brutally slaughter all of humanity. No pressure. Luckily there is a banishing ritual that will stop the invading God from crossing over to our world and killing us all. Unfortunately our main hero knows nothing about it but it's existence.
The game is played by making you travel from Town to Town all over Britain. Each city you encounter could either be completely fine and you could buy supplies or look for a job so that you can earn money for said supplies, or the city will be "terrorized" which brings you to the action of the game. In a Terrorized City the Citizens will request your help with one thing or another, which brings you to the action.
In these sections of the game you control your character in a dungeon crawl styled environment. To move you can click the arrows, although it was updated to add keyboard controls, and you can click on the screen to shoot enemies at a distance or melee them at close range. your goal in each dungeon is different but usually descends into, search every room, interact with every object and hope you don't encounter enemies so that you don't need to waste bullets.
As you explore these dungeons you will come across notes. These notes will mostly give you information about the three Gods influencing the world and how to banish them, as you find more of these notes you get ever closer to banishing the God that wishes to wreak havoc on our world. after you have gathered up enough information you must travel to Stonehenge, cast the Banishing ritual and save the world!
Ideally.
I have never beaten this game, I failed to mention how tough this game can be. There are very limited supplies in game and although you can still fight, running out of bullets can be disastrous, and bullets are not the most common thing in the world. You also have to manage your health and sanity.
Health is easier to manage, every safe town has a hospital that you can use to find medical supplies to heal yourself up. Sanity on the other hand can be refilled with the use of "Illegal Drugs" in the form of a syringe, this is only a temporary effect though, the only way to refill the sanity meter permanently is through random events, like your family texting you a encouraging message.
This obviously means that your sanity can stay very low for a long time and the effects of low sanity are not good.
When you start a new game you will notice two boxes, "Begin journey" and "shoot myself".
You might think that it's a nice gimmick but shooting yourself is actually a mechanic. When your character gets low sanity he will get stressed and when he gets stressed your options can change suddenly into "Shoot myself" allowing some unobservant players to get killed.
It is preventable by rapidly clicking the mouse but the lower your sanity the more difficult that is, becoming impossible with very little sanity.
There is also a magic system. the system reminds me of Eternal Darkness in which you combine certain words of the Ancient Gods to help yourself. I have only found a couple of spells ranging in usefulness one allowing me to see in the dark and another unlocking doors.
And on the final note. This game is a rouge-like for a reason. Every time you die you start again. From scratch. That's it. There is a progression system that helps out a little bit. Every time you die the game totals your score. This is cashed in to level you up, every time you level up you get a skill point that you can use at the beginning of a new game to give you various bonus like more health, a faster car speed, higher maximum ammo etc.
I personally love playing this game, it's very atmospheric and while it doesn't scare you by making things jump out at you, it does terrify you when you waste your late bullets on a hallucination.
So far there isn't much in the way of graphics or plot, but it is in Beta and I look forward to seeing more of this game in the future.
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