There are few accolades in PC video games on the identical stage as ‘Programmer and designer on the unique Diablo‘, however David Brevik will get to put on that badge with pleasure. However, leaving Blizzard following the discharge of Warcraft three, his profession has been just a little tumultuous, to place it frivolously.
Since leaving Blizzard, he has since labored on Hellgate: London, Dungeons & Dragons Online and was artistic lead on the not too long ago (and sadly) shut down Marvel Heroes. For his newest venture, he’s going solo, old-school and indie, and his upcoming platform exploration/dungeon-crawling sandbox It Lurks Below seems greater than just a little like Terraria proper now.
As it stands, at the least going by the gameplay trailer above, It Lurks Below may cross for any of 100 different Terraria imitators launched over the previous few years. Fortunately, watching some prolonged gameplay footage on the official Twitch web page for Greybeard Games (Brevik’s tiny indie outfit) there’s maybe a bit extra to it than simply shameless imitation.
Watching it in motion, it appears It Lurks Below is geared much more in direction of dungeon crawling than Terraria, together with your city being a pre-fab assembled house base that you just return to for therapeutic and resupply fairly than the principle focus of your consideration. Instead, you’re assigned quests to hold out within the dungeon beneath, which reward you with new talents, character stat upgrades and new crafting recipes, that means that as a way to get stronger, you’ll at all times must dig deeper and combat greater, scarier monsters.
There’s additionally a better Diablo-like deal with loot, itemization and cooldown-based powers. Given Brevik’s expertise crunching these numbers on a large number of different related video games, it doesn’t appear unreasonable to hope that this one will play just a little extra tightly than most video games on this significantly wooly and informal sub-genre.
It Lurks Below shall be available to purchase via Steam Early Access quickly, and you’ll wishlist its web page if you wish to maintain posted on precisely when it releases.
