The dungeon crawler Skullstone is now on Steam Greenlight:

Skullstone - Official Trailer

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Story:

After a most unusual earthquake in the middle of a raging thunderstorm, dangerous creatures started appearing near a small mining town. Attacks on locals and travelers started soon after. Hunters discovered that in the mouth of a mysterious rock formation, known as Skullstone, a passage appeared. Long and dark corridor leading down below, and tracks suggest it's the monsters' lair. The elders agreed to send messengers calling for mercenaries who'll walk into the mouth of Skullstone to explore the evil place.

The player picks four out of twenty pre-made characters. Each of them with an unique set of skills and abilities, and with advantages and disadvantages. The party of mercenaries is then sent into the underground to explore abandoned mines, dark dungeons, ancient temples and other mysterious environments. Variety of monsters await. From simple spiders and giant rats, through ghouls and golems, to beast so unique you’ve never seen them in any other title. Each and every creature uses not only attacks typical for it kind but also have access to a set of skills enabling them to harm you with various curses and area of effects attacks.

Gameplay:

Exploration combined with survival is on of main gameplay elements. The dungeon is full of secret rooms, switches, various puzzles and riddles, notes and ancient books (filled with tips and helpful information). Finding a powerful weapon, piece of armour or a magical artifact (to use in fight or a quest) will not be uncommon as well. Moreover, it’s possible to gather food to fight growing hunger and which might be used in formulas to create potions.

During short brakes from discovering secrets of the underground world, players will be able to visit the town above the dungeon, where the team can resupply, unconscious members are revived, important NPCs can be talked to, and, most importantly, quests can be received. Apart from you main mission a number of side-quests will be available.

Incoming features:

While core of the game is completed, right now we’re still working on few other gameplay elements:

• underground environments and object found in the dungeon
• quests and puzzles
• GUI
• magical effects
• increasing number of monsters, weapons, equipment and other models
• party members’ commentaries to various events