Ravensword: Undaunted

Excellent game, It plays like Diablo in First Person view. You start as a warrior fighting skeletons. You got short sword and a magic staff. Combat is well thought. You can block up to 4 enemy attacks and you can strike. Blocking during enemy attack does a parry. It stuns enemy for short time. The gameplay feels like a Diablo. You go through dungeons, killing skeletons, wererats, floating demonic heads. You get points and upgrade your weapons and health. Weapons also have support abilities and you unlock them too. There is no save option in the middle of a game, so you restart the level if you died. Good news is the levels are shot. Those who wanted to try Diablo in First Person should try this game. The game becomes boring when there are no more enemy types to fight. Skeletons with axes, skeletons with bows, suicide skeletons with bomb, skeletons with shields, wererats, werewolves, floating demon heads - that is all. I was playing like a short sword warrior. Then I finished the dungeon, returned to my hideout and upgraded my weapons and health for points I earned. All weapons damage can be upgraded. New weapons can be unlocked. I played more dungeons, earned more points, upgraded my starting weapons to maximum damage. Then I unlocked the best melee weapon and the best magical wand. Replayed the last dungeon a couple more times, earned more points. Upgraded the best melee weapon (long sword) and the best magical wand (frost wand) to the maximum damage and maximum mana. There are no shields in the game. That is disappointing. Upgraded magical wand does huge damage and shoots multiple projectiles at once. Alternative fire freezes and damages enemies at once. At this point it is pointless to use a sword. Magic wand wins! I noticed that there are a number of play styles. One can play a warrior (with hummer, long sword and weak wand), rogue (with short sword, crossbow and weak wand), mage (short sword, weak wand, strong wand). I ended playing like a mage, killing groups of enemies easily with Frost wand. Great game. Plays like Diablo. It definitely needs more enemies and levels. I heard the company does not work anymore on this game. I tried the demo of new game they are working on: Andkara The Horde. Unfortunately it is not a dungeon crawler like Diablo and Ravensword. It plays like a monster arena. Melee weapons are useless, it is all about large damage magical wands and weird enemies charge you from all sides. I personally like dungeon crawlers where I can use my beginning shot sword to block/parry enemy attacks and then hit enemies without losing much health. Then I get shield, crossbow and better body armor like chain mail. Multiple classes are good too (see above). Enemies should be usual evil guys from fantasy genre - skeletons, orcs, ettins, lizardmen, barbarians, dragons. Some enemies should cast fireballs and some should fight you with swords. I do not like change to this formula. Diablo and Skyrim were great. I like to play fast paced dungeon crawlers. Ravensword is a great game in action RPG genre. Perhaps, developers should finish Ravensword, add more enemies, levels and co-op/duel modes. Here is the list of my favourite First Person Slashers (FPS). They are total blast: Heterodox, Ravensword: Undaunted, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Arthurian Legends, Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Whitchaven 2: Blood Vengeance, Cult of Despair (mod for Hexen, download https://www.moddb.com/mods/wrath-of-cronos-hard-unofficial-version https://www.moddb.com/games/hexen/addons/cult-of-despair Create run.bat file to run the game [gzdoom -file woc_v3.2.8.pk3 CultofDespair.pk3 brightmaps.pk3 light.pk3 -iwad Hexen]), Hexen (get high definition texture pack HexenHDv1.0.2.rar https://www.moddb.com/mods/hexen-hd-2020/downloads/hexen-hd-v102 Create run.bat file to run the game [gzdoom -file h_PBR_v461.pk3 HEXENREMADE.wad] I used cheats to load levels... I hate hub system... visit## https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Hexen_cheat_codes). My favourite First Person Shooters: Trepang 2, SiN Episodes: Emergence, War Trigger 3 (multiplayer only), Fear, Fear 2, Shadow Warrior, Counter Strike 2 (multiplayer only), Command & Conquer: Renegade, Blood: Fresh Supply, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux, Doom, Doom 2.

Absolute scam ! Unfinished + has been abandonned for years ! Had great potential tho and was fun to play despite the fact that there isn't a lot of content. I am left saddened :(

I think that an average person won't spend with this game more than 4 hours. The combat system is very easy to learn and it would not be an issue, but repetitive levels are - especially if you want to unlock a new weapon, it's bothering that you have to pass levels that you already finished. I like the visual side of the game, but sadly it's not a new Enclave/Dark Messiah at all. I have spent several more hours with this game, as I found a pleasure in some "tactics" of the fighting, like avoiding arrows with diagonal steps, penetrating 2 opponents with lightning shock, etc.

TL;DR: It's very mediocre. Slow start, clunky combat, uninspired leveling system, bad AI, etc. NOT WORTH $8. Currently refunding it. The game looks pretty, but that's about it. The hitboxes feel clunky and sword range feels off. Just slightly longer than the models would imply, making for very janky melee combat. The combat sound design is so-so. Nothing special. The enemies are very generic and have basic ai. The spawnrate in room clear arenas seem designed like Ziggurat, but minus the fun. It's so tedious. You do effectively no damage once you get to the 2nd stage with your sword and staff. You rapidly run out of mana for your staff and the mana drops are rng. So you just slap the enemies with your wet noodle sword while kiting and wondering why you even bought the game. Headshotting them, btw. Doesn't matter, the damage is negligible. There's a parry mechanic but it feels like an afterthought. The spawnrate makes the parry do nothing since one or two will be knocked back and 3-5 others will all hit you at the same time. The dash also appears to serve 0 purpose in the game. You can attack while jumping, you cannot dash while in the air. If the dash has i-frames it's in milliseconds. You often will simply dash and get hit anyways. You can side step and walk around single enemies and hit them faster than they can turn. They don't really react, they just cycle through some basic combos/behavior. The scary part about fighting undead enemies is them being relentless and engaging to fight in games, or fast. These are neither. It takes you long enough to kill one skeleton that another will make it over and attack from behind. This, however, is a side effect of over-tuned hp pools aka bullet sponge enemies, not the enemy putting up a good fight. They're too dumb for that. Grinding to get incremental stat upgrades and someday reach more than 2 weapons is just incredibly boring. There's no secrets in the first level, no lore to find, no cool weapons or upgrades, just a linear slog with nonsensical nooks and crannies, as if something was supposed to be there but they never got to it. I spent a good chunk of my minimal playtime trying to climb around the first area only to find it completely empty of actual secrets or content. It just looks pretty and is a timewaster for anyone trying to start a mission. If you increase the difficulty, enemies seem to just scale up in hp pool. They don't become more aggressive, smart, or otherwise fun to fight. They just do more damage and have more health. I turned the difficulty up to Hard to see if it would make me easier to kill, as on Normal you have to actually go afk to be killed. There's no challenge. The enemies on Hard killed me because I couldn't kill them. They became bullet sponges. Blade sponges in this case. There's a game here, but it's not much of one. This title needs a lot of work before I would consider it worth even $8. The developers are in a bad spot with this one, they've said they plan to finish it, but there doesn't seem to be an ETA. Planning to finish what we have here doesn't come close to providing a competitive experience to other similar titles.

gone forever. let it go

Sadly abandoned by devs since 2 years, and there is no way to refund. Avoid it and report devs if you can.