After a three year development period that included a seven month stint of team-members illegally living and working out of an unused University classroom at Denmark's Aalborg University and an eleventh hour Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign success, the elated crew at BetaDwarf have launched FORCED on steam. Self-described as Left 4 Dead meets Diablo, "Forced is a one- to four-player co-op arcade action RPG with puzzle and tactical elements".
You are cast as slaves in the toughest fantasy gladiator school of them all, condemned to fight to the death, all the while attempting to win your freedom. You will face deadly trials and huge creatures, but Balfus, your Spirit Mentor will guide you in your quest to break the chains of oppression.
Watch the launch trailer below, read the dev team's colourful origin story, and head over to Steam to pick up the game at its USD$11.99 promotional launch price.
Played some of this today. Its quite a fun indie game. Control scheme is interesting but you get used to it after a while. Arenas seem to have some nice mechanics for puzzle solves.
Biggest problem at the moment is that without a full 4 player co-op team its really quite hard, but they are having lots of multiplayer problems with NAT which really should have been fixed before launch. If you are selling a drop-in drop-oput multiplayer co-op game then multiplayer should work without having to do arcane s*** with ports or virtual networks like hamachi or tunngle.
Well worth the money but wait for proper multiplayer support (they say its coming).
Posted 03:29am 27/10/13
Biggest problem at the moment is that without a full 4 player co-op team its really quite hard, but they are having lots of multiplayer problems with NAT which really should have been fixed before launch. If you are selling a drop-in drop-oput multiplayer co-op game then multiplayer should work without having to do arcane s*** with ports or virtual networks like hamachi or tunngle.
Well worth the money but wait for proper multiplayer support (they say its coming).