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—clicking around the map so you can follow your scout’s exploring at the same time as maximising efficiency in your base and keeping your warriors alive as they clear out a nest of spiders. There should be plenty of depth there for Dark And Darker Gold strategy fans, but for me the very hands-on approach feels a little at odds with the dark management sim premise. Stressing out about keeping my people safe is fun, worrying about whether I’ve left someone standing idle somewhere less so.
Still, the section I play is very early on, and things may very well click more for me as more systems are layered on. I’m certainly interested to see more of Gord’s dark and strange world, and a little roughness around the edges is perhaps to be expected in a game that’s experimenting so much with genre. I’ll be watching with interest in the run up to launch, planned for later this summer.
Aww: These dark fantasy warriors have the cutest widdle kitty faces
I did not have dark fantasy soulslike action RPG starring humanoid cats on my 2023 bingo card, but if you did, congratulations! Indie developers Astral Clocktower Studios are granting your wish and filling in that space with Kristala, its in-development debut title where your absolutely adorable widdle warrior must master the magic of six sacred crystals to fight a terrible curse that has mutated the other creatures of the world into monsters.
That is presumably, of course, if your ickle bitty cutie warrior can stop trying to jump on top of the bookshelves and/or catch the laser pointer. I mean just look at them, they’re such precise little housecat faces.
Cute cate jokes aside, it looks like some interesting ARPG stuff. The game promises to have weapons, spells, armor sets, and items to cheap Darker Gold collect and upgrade as you explore its environment and complete your quest to prove yourself by gathering your sacred crystal powers.