Archaelund - Early Access Release

[HiddenX]

The party based RPG Archaelund will be released into Early Access today:

Archaelund Trailer

Explore a vast open world and crawl through dungeons in first person, then fight tactical turn-based battles from a top-down perspective. Guide your adventuring party through Archaelund, mankind's last frontier, and uncover its many secrets.

More information.

 

[skally_wag]

£17.99 on steam. I just purchased it but have no plans to play it any time soon. Hopefully will be fun watching it cook.

 

[Carnifex]

I like the inclusion of both first person and turn-based. That alone might be enough to get my money lined up for this one.

 

[Darkheart]

I am also close to pull the trigger on this one. Anybody got any impressions?

 

[JFarrell71]

I am also close to pull the trigger on this one. Anybody got any impressions?

I do a bad James Kirk, but I don't know how that helps you.

 

[vanedor]

It looks interesting. Would certainly like to hear people first impressions.

 

[Corwin]

Played for 4 hours and am enjoying it so far. Yes, there are some things I think can be improved, but it's quite an old skule little RPG which will only get better during the EA period.

 

[Hastar]

I am also close to pull the trigger on this one. Anybody got any impressions?

I have played for 2 hours. Exploration and the first dungeon are done well. It's a large world map and a nice use of skills so far. Slow leveling, after 2 hours still level one. Your characters don't look great in combat but it's not terrible.

Combat is hard and it's old school. I enjoyed character creation but I like random rolling for single-player games. It's like the first two Fallouts. Because of the hard combat, I may have to recreate my party and go the min-max route.

 

[SpoonFULL]

Combat is hard and it's old school. I enjoyed character creation but I like random rolling for single-player games. It's like the first two Fallouts. Because of the hard combat, I may have to recreate my party and go the min-max route.

That sounds good to me, and that's where the fun is (for me at least).

 

[Andrew23]

I like it. Hopefully it will get out of EA before I retire. Or maybe doesnt matter, by that time I might actually be able to play games again.

 

[Vaelith]

2026 planned actual release. Oh well.

I'll have a look if I'm alive by then.

 

[daveyd]

Yeah, I'm interested, but think I'll wait until release or at least until it's closer to being finished.

 

[Carnifex]

Yup, count me in as someone likely to get this one as well, once all the patches and kinks are put to rest.

 

[ikbenrichard]

I am also close to pull the trigger on this one. Anybody got any impressions?

hastar has, if i am correct
edit, too late ;-)

 

[lackblogger]

Combat is hard and it's old school. I enjoyed character creation but I like random rolling for single-player games.

Yes, I prefer doing that aswell.

Then for my last character it'll roll me:

12 12 12 12 12 12

Or some such literally nothing roll and effectively force me to re-roll. Never fails.

Do you prefer games that ask you to choose a class then roll or games that ask you to roll and then pick a class? And which way does this game do it?

 

[Hastar]

Yes, I prefer doing that aswell.

Then for my last character it'll roll me:

12 12 12 12 12 12

Or some such literally nothing roll and effectively force me to re-roll. Never fails.

Do you prefer games that ask you to choose a class then roll or games that ask you to roll and then pick a class? And which way does this game do it?

Rolling first and then picking a class is really old school, like M&M1 and Wiz1. I like to pick the class first and then roll like in Solasta. You pick the class first in Archaeland and then have 5 skill points to add. Each class has minimum requirements. The different races also have bonuses or disadvantages. You can subtract from stats also.

You start the game naked on a shore with no items so the beginning can be difficult.

 

[skally_wag]

You start the game naked on a shore with no items so the beginning can be difficult.

Perfect, just how I like it.

 

[Hastar]

This game is starting to grow on me. I made a new group and they just hit lvl 2. Starting to pick up some new combat strategies and had an NPC join my party. Looks like you can join factions. There's a faction tab with a bunch of different factions.

I think the battle maps could be better but they're not bad. I am looking forward to seeing how the game plays at higher lvls.

 

[JDR13]

I think the battle maps could be better but they're not bad. I am looking forward to seeing how the game plays at higher lvls.

How do you feel in general about the game being in first-person but switching to isometric for combat?

My first thought is that I'd rather he had done something like Wiz 8 where it stays a blobber but you can change your party's formation. Maybe this was easier for him though.

 

[Stingray]

My first thought is that I'd rather he had done something like Wiz 8 where it stays a blobber but you can change your party's formation. Maybe this was easier for him though.

From what I've read over the years from the dev, it's not a matter of it being easier, he just thinks this is a superior design.

Here's some of his thoughts from the beginning of the project, long ago:
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...switches-between-1st-person-isometric.115714/