Full disclosure: I will admit it. I am a sucker for zombie video games. I’ve performed all of them — the nice and the dangerous. So sure, after I noticed somebody was making a medieval zombie survival horror, I stated, “Cease! You had me at medieval zombies. Right here. Please take my cash.” After viewing the gameplay trailer, I am much more satisfied that I need to play this sport.
Simply over a 12 months in the past, indy developer Haenir Studio quietly introduced on Reddit that it was growing its first sport referred to as Blight: Survival. The 2-person staff has since labored on the challenge of their spare time. The builders haven’t revealed a lot in regards to the title apart from just a few progress updates.
On Wednesday, the Blight: Survival sport web page went dwell on Steam. Haenir put collectively an unremarkable teaser and a way more outstanding five-minute gameplay trailer that appears spectacular for less than having been in growth for a 12 months (above).
The studio describes the sport as a “4-player co-op action-horror roguelite.” I describe it as “Days Gone met Mount and Blade and had a love baby.” Though Haenir constructed the sport on Unreal Engine as a four-player co-op, it assures us that gamers are fully free to play it solo. Recluses rejoice. The sport will not lock you into having to take care of folks.
The motion is about in an unspecified medieval period with two armies which have been at struggle for years. A blight has swept the land turning corpses into zombies. So not solely do gamers must take care of the rival faction, they’ve the undead crawling up their culet.
The gameplay is fairly versatile. Clearly, it has loads of standup swordplay, which up to now seems fluid and complicated. Nonetheless, there are stealth components within the combine for these gamers that just like the quiet strategy. As seen later within the clip, sneaking round in heavy clanking armor appears a bit ridiculous. Nonetheless, we additionally discover that gamers can loot leather-based armor from corpses. So there will definitely be acceptable penalties and buffs for varied armor sorts.
“Select between a big number of weapons, armor and customise them to greatest fit your playstyle,” the sport description reads.
One other ingredient of the gameplay that Haenir didn’t characteristic within the trailer is the hostage system. An April Reddit replace confirmed how gamers may stealthily sneak up and seize enemies and both kill them or use them as a meat defend.
Haenir is growing Blight: Survival for PC however intends to port it to consoles finally. The studio has not but hinted at a launch date, but it surely’s most likely going to be some time. The 2 builders admit that they’ve “NOT” stop their day jobs and have solely labored on the challenge of their spare time.
They’re utilizing the gameplay trailer as a proof-of-concept to see if they’ll entice a writer to fund them. They might finally wish to stop their jobs, rent extra builders, and put a full-time give attention to ending the sport. Barring that, they continue to be open to crowdfunding however do not just like the time funding concerned with managing a marketing campaign. Volunteers?
