Overfall - Preview @ Canadian Online Gamers

Steven Ritz of Canadian Online Gamers has previewed the already funded Kickstarter game Overfall:

Kickstarter seems flooded by so many seemingly great game ideas these days it’s hard to choose where to invest your hard earned dollars. Not to mention the trepidation of parting with that money when there is a real chance you might never see a finished product. Before the internet age, developers would rely on game demos for promotion: small snapshots of the game to entice players. Demos are few and far between these days, but Pera Games has provided a short demo for their new game Overfall and it was a great idea. [...]

So, on to the actual game. Overfall can be quickly summed up as a rogue-like tactical RPG, but I feel that a simple genre brand doesn’t quite do it justice. Those of you who are familiar with Darkest Dungeon, a recent Kickstarter indie success of the same genre, will sense a fair amount of similarities: perma-death of your party members, procedurally generated maps, unique skill sets for each class, etc. Something that I felt set it apart from other games in the genre, however, was the combat system. Each turn consists of a move, a utility, and then an attack phase. Each class has different abilities for each phase; for instance, the barbarian has an ability to jump to a tile and do AoE damage to surrounding enemies while the rogue type character can blink to a spot and pull enemies closer to him. This opens up some really interesting strategy for follow up attacks or for making some great defensive plays. I’m excited to see what other classes will become available and what moves will come with them. [...]