Kickstarter Game “Umbra” Is One For The Diablo/Torchlight Fans

 

There is an interesting looking isometric-RPG game called Umbra currently making its rounds over at Kickstarter and Greenlight. According to the Kickstarter page:

An isometric view open world action-RPG taking place in a corrupted world falling apart. You are a former officer of army of the Human Republic, forced to flee the death penalty because of the magic powers you have unwillingly developed. Being tracked down by humans and hunted by the monsters of the Wild, you are recruited by a mysterious group of Templars. And thus an epic adventure begins in which you will wander the world to fight inhuman, mutated monsters and discover the terrible secret of the extinguishing mankind.

The game features a unique mechanic called Apocalyptic Form that allows players to shape shift into a highly customized character! You’re free to mold your character thanks to a deep and rich customization system. And thanks to our complex crafting mini-game and our housing module you will be able to make your adventure feel as YOUR adventure!

The coolest thing here is that, at this stage, they have quite a lot of interesting gameplay and ideas to show. More impressively, this game will be powered by the award winning Cry-Engine, which you may recall being a key factor in Crysis‘ success. So you can imagine, the game is looking quite good already.

Another thing that has caught my eye here is the weapon system present in this game. Apparently you can personalise your weapons with multiple modifications. Now there might have been more games that do that, but I think this is the first time I, myself have seen something like this in action with medieval weaponry.

Now if that strikes you as fancy, wait till you hear what they have with armours in mind. According to them, “we want you to be able to customize your gear down to the finest details! You will be able to equip different shoulders and arm protection on the left and right side of your character, bringing a great number of personalization options!“

Not only that, but there is an interesting Housing System in play here as well. Where, depending on your achievements, you will get to unlock many different pieces of furniture to personalise your game’s living space.

Lastly, of course the multiplayer aspect of the game. According to their Kickstarter page:

Multiplayer is a very important aspect of Hack and Slash games, but also a complicated feature to setup because of the testing and balancing required.

We would love to develop a Multiplayer mode for Umbra, but we want to do it right, and that means additional development costs. For that reason, Multiplayer implementation is divided into different Stretch Goals:

Creating a global leaderboard: All players will have to register on a server to be displayed in the leaderboard. It will allow us to develop ladders and cheat protection.
Housing visit: Players will be able to visit each other’s house. The most popular houses will be featured on our website!
Dungeon challenge: Things become serious here. You will be able to build a dungeon and challenge other player to defeat your setup. Tease them with precious items as reward for winners. And in order to participate, players need to pay in gold… and if they’re defeated they will end up losing even more gold!
Co-op: The classic Multiplayer mode!
Players vs Players vs AI: A competitive multiplayer mode in which a group of players will have to complete a mission before an opposing team. And each team will have the ability to create traps or to use the roaming enemies to slow down the opposite team!

So for those of you who are interested, and are fans of games like Diablo or Torchlight, I would advise you to give both the Kickstarter and Steam’s Greenlight a look as this might be right down your alley, and of course support in on Kickstarter if you would like to see this game get a release.