Parhedros - Patch Released for Parhedros: The Tunnels of Sethir

Indie RPG developer Laurian Studios has released a patch for their recently released turn-based RPG Parhedros: The Tunnels of Sethir. It's a Shareware game, so don't expect A1 graphics, but the overall quality is quite good. Check it out and see if it's for you. Here's their official blurb.

LITTLE FALLS, New York, Nov 10, 2007. Independent developer Laurion Studio announces the release of the 1.0.1 patch for its recent fantasy-themed RPG-Adventure, Parhedros: the Tunnels of Sethir. The patch fixes a crash-to-desk top bug, significantly improves the AI of ranged and spell-casting units in combat, and allows unregistered players to explore twice as many levels in the dungeons.

Parhedros is a full 3D dungeon-crawling adventure featuring demanding tactical combat, convincingly life-like NPC interactions using a natural language interface, a unique hyperfictional approach to story-delivery, and a fresh assortment of playable fantasy-themed races, such as satyrs, centaurs and spider-folk.

The Patch can be downloaded (file size: 820 KB) from the Parhedros web-site, at www.parhedros.com/parhedros_patch1.html.

About Laurion Studio:

Laurion Studio is an independent developer of entertainment software that focuses on bringing a fresh look and feel to overlooked classical genres. The company's current projects seek to reinterpret some of the best and most demanding features of old-school role-playing adventures for a generation of gamers that is increasingly jaded with a steady diet of “dumbed-down” games. Past entertainment titles included the Risqué Renee series, a parody of casino games, released in 1999 for the PC. More information on Laurion Studio can be found at www.parhedros.com.

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Zoinks. There's nekkid chicks on that site.

Perhaps a mild NSFW warning about the bare boobies would be in order?

Don't know about nekkid chicks but they got nekkid centaurs

There's nekkid chicks in the game's load screens and some cut scenes as well. It's all very "adult" LARP-ish really.

Their choice of company name might land them in some trouble. It took a second read through for me to notice we weren't talking about Larian Studios, the makers of Divine Divinity and some other crappy game that kinda looked like Divine Divinity Laurian Studio and Larian Studios???

Tried playing the shareware version of this game yesterdays… barely playable unless there is something I don't understand. There is almost no tactical possibilities. You end up having to fight some sort of giants spiders right at the start. No idea how to survive this! It's not as if I was a novice with rpgs but this one… I don't get it.

The spiders were not really difficult; there's a bow you can pick up, you have some magic skill and if you time it correctly, you can avoid the first one till later and grab a rune for more magic. Head left and you can find even more stuff.