Ravenswatch Preview (Steam Early Access)
For this Ravenswatch Preview, we enter a world full of Fallen heroes of old folk tales and legends: you are on the verge of a crucial battle against the Nightmare invading and corrupting your world. A roguelike action game by the creators of Curse of the Dead Gods, playable solo or in online co-op.
Ravenswatch Preview Pros:
- Beautiful cel-shaded graphics.
- Download size.
- Full controller support.
- Four playable characters – The pied piper, scarlet, the snow queen, and Beowulf.
- Graphics settings – display mode, monitor, render resolution, refresh rate, v-sync, and texture quality.
- Can rebind controls for both keyboard and controller buttons.
- The quick guide is your instruction manual.
- The compendium fills in with heroes and magical objects.
- One difficulty at present – normal.
- A book menu system that looks cool.
- Roguelike ARPG gameplay.
- The map randomizes every run and uses the fog of war mechanic. (map uncovers as you play)
- You can see your seed number.
- Earn EXP and level up, regain all health, and pick one of two random upgrades/abilities.
- Fast travel points are all over the map.
- You can see enemy health bars.
- Breakable objects.
- Enemies can randomly drop health balls.
- At the end of a run, you get a breakdown and experience earned that does an overall level-up rank.
- Little set events can be triggered.
- Scarlet is little red riding hood, by day you are Scarlet and when night falls you turn into a werewolf.
- The Sandman is where you go to buy consumables or upgrades.
- Smash up particular rocks for currency.
- Ravens’ feathers are used to respawn.
- In multiplayer all heroes level at the same time.
- Raven feathers are shared by all players.
- You can heal/revive each other in multiplayer.
- Enemies can have a stagger bar underneath their health.
- Ranking up with your character at the end unlocks new abilities and upgrades.
- The enemies that appear and react can change in day and night cycles.
- Heal when you level up.
- Cool unique day/night mechanic.
Ravenswatch Preview Cons:
- Doesn’t play well with the keyboard as it uses WASD for movement and it feels off.
- Getting used to the health mechanic (only drops and fountains regain health).
- The map layouts at present feel very grundy and repetitive.
- Leveling up is not a big event.
- No in-game tutorials at all.
- Only the one difficulty.
- Combating with large groups gets very messy.
- Doesn’t have any online matchmaking.
- You get given the world seed but no way to use it.
- At the moment it’s all about abilities, no equipment loot.
- Loot boxes are minimal.
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Ravenswatch:
Developer: Accueil – Passtech
Publisher: Nacon
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