Unepic

A Metroidvania game with distinctly strategic combat that encourages you to think outside the box. It's part RPG: you can equip weapons, armor, and potions, and when you kill enemies you gain XP. When you level up, you get skill points that let you use better gear. Where this game differs from other Metroidvanias is the combat, which is very deliberate and feels almost puzzle-like at times. If you try to hack and slash in Unepic, you'll do little more than die horribly. You're encouraged to carefully pick off foes and try different weapons and tactics. For example, daggers are fast-hitting, and hit hard when used against enemies from behind. Swords do better against organic beings, while maces crush armored foes. Axes are the middle ground, doing average damage to both kinds of enemies. Polearms are great for poking dudes you don't want to sit next to (enemies with poison HURT). Using

Unepic is an old-school indie RPG that’s rough around the edges but still has a lot to offer. You play as Daniel, a typical nerd who suddenly finds himself either hallucinating or somehow transported inside the tabletop game he’s been playing—he’s not sure which. Soon after, you are exploring a castle full of deadly enemies and traps, searching for the exit. The dungeon is divided into segments typical of a Metroidvania, requiring you to power up, level up, defeat an area’s boss to obtain a key so you may progress to the next area, and so on. The boss battles themselves are well-crafted and interesting, except for one that effectively forces you to drop your items on the ground, which was a terrible idea. You’ll meet a reluctant companion very early on who will remain with you throughout the game and serves as the other half of most of the dialog and story. The dialog tends to be on

Contradicting its title, Unepic is an epic 2D side-scrolling RPG with a touch of platforming elements. You play as Daniel, who gets teleported into a mysterious castle during a pen-and-paper RPG session with his friends. Soon enough, Daniel finds himself possessed by a sinister entity who unvoluntarily becomes his guide throughout the journey. At first, Daniel believes that this whole mishap is just a hallucination and acts as if he was playing a video game, which leads to genuinely amusing dialogues filled with pop culture refferences (World of Warcraft, Star Trek, Star Wars etc). But well-written dialogues is just one of Unepic's positives. The locations are distinguishable enough from each other and, if you like 2D graphic, visually pleasing. Definitelly not what you'd call "monotonous". Controls feel just right most of the time, with just a few design flaws (for example taking d

Unepic is an amalgamation of two of my most favorite gameplay styles, Metroidvanias and slower, methodically minded titles like Spelunky, or to a greater extent, Demon and Dark Souls. Unepic melds the two into a challenging and hilarious adventure that will easily last you upwards of 20 hours while you explore the game’s dungeons. The story follows a tabletop gamer who suddenly finds himself in an enchanted tower filled with ghouls, goblins, and all manner of beasts. He quickly becomes possessed by a nameless dark spirit who finds that he is unable to control our hero! Worse yet, he’s stuck inside his body until our hero’s death! What could have been little more than a driving force for Unepic’s protagonist quickly becomes one of its strongest qualities, as the hero and spirit are able to communicate with one another, and they do so often. The dialogue between them is witty and hilariou

Finished Unepic. "Finished". Will come to that later. Premise is simple but well executed with plenty self-aware humor and nods to many cliches and franchises. During a D&D game-night with friends you get sucked into a real dungeon or rather castle. And boy is it a castle indeed. It's huge. Separated into several areas with unique themes and enemies. You slowly get to explore the castle, open up new areas in your journey to meet the master of the castle Harnakon. Each area has a boss fight which drops a key opening a previously locked area. Besides the main quest each area also harbors a Pure Spirit with a quest. These are particularly interesting since the loot is a whole new character skill which opens the path for various spells and skills. On top of these there are also more menial side quests abound which net you either gold, a companion pet or a special weapon. All in all, there i

UnEpic is very tough to evaluate, so I'll try to be brief: it's a brilliantly designed metroidvania with setting and characters so unbearably, impossibly cringeworthy and hateful, that they may well overshadow everything good about the game for you. It has a sorceress named Fedora. It has a protagonist spewing pop culture quotes with zero humor or relevance, just to tingle the sense of recognition in the player. It has a sidequest, in which your goal is, and I quote, to "impregnate a bunch of goblin females." The plot is your run-of-the-mill "a nerd is somehow transported to an actual fantasy and demostrates his knowledge of fantasy tropes to become a true hero", but it portrays the protagonist (and, by extension, all geek culture) in an extremely ugly, cringy, unfunny, unlikeable, and pitiful light. Which is a damn shame, because the game underneath this ugly cover is great. It has