Posted November 05, 2016
Raptisoft, who some of you may know for his iOS games Solomon's Keep and Solomon's Boneyard, has released the nearly-finished and sadly abandoned beta version of his most recent game, Solomon Dark, for free. If you've never heard of it, think of it as Diablo meets Crimsonland!
Here's a gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBdHFPwd0gs
It's basically an arena "shooter" in which you can play mages of different elements, leveling up, finding new items and later on even mixing different elements. In between runs you visit the mages' college to get a few permanent and temporary bonuses. That sounds a bit like a roguelike, but most of the actual progress really comes from getting more experienced with all the skills yourself, as well as finding some helpful items you can carry over to successive runs.
Even though it's a beta version it runs very well. The official download was only up for few hours to save on bandwidth, but I've put together a list of safe download links on the official forums here: http://raptisoft-forums.com/discussion/264/solomon-dark-download-links-and-gameplay-trailer
By the way, I have nothing to do with Raptisoft, I just happen to be extremely fond of this game :) Also looking very promising is his remake of Solomon's Keep, which is currently on Greenlight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=787584431 Alas, that won't be out until next year.
Here's a gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBdHFPwd0gs
It's basically an arena "shooter" in which you can play mages of different elements, leveling up, finding new items and later on even mixing different elements. In between runs you visit the mages' college to get a few permanent and temporary bonuses. That sounds a bit like a roguelike, but most of the actual progress really comes from getting more experienced with all the skills yourself, as well as finding some helpful items you can carry over to successive runs.
Even though it's a beta version it runs very well. The official download was only up for few hours to save on bandwidth, but I've put together a list of safe download links on the official forums here: http://raptisoft-forums.com/discussion/264/solomon-dark-download-links-and-gameplay-trailer
By the way, I have nothing to do with Raptisoft, I just happen to be extremely fond of this game :) Also looking very promising is his remake of Solomon's Keep, which is currently on Greenlight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=787584431 Alas, that won't be out until next year.