It Lurks Below - David Breviks new RPG

PCGamer reports on David Brevik's new RPG 2D sandbox game called It Lurks Below. The game takes after Starbound and Terraria graphically but with more purpose.

Diablo creator David Brevik has announced his own indie game: a 2D sandbox RPG called It Lurks Below. Players will explore randomly generated levels, delving into dungeons and fighting baddies while collecting as much loot as they can get their pixely hands on.

It'll have free-form building, too, in the same vein as Minecraft and Terraria. Brevik told Polygon that he's a big fan of those games but he "wanted more of a point to a lot of those games. I wanted to make an RPG, with classes and leveling up, random items, where you get more and more powerful as you go down into the core of the world and fight baddies.”



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I normally would pass on something like this as indie shovelware. But David Brevik is a hell of a dev. So I'll keep an eye out on this. Not a fan of the 2D sideview though.

I don't mind the pixel graphics but yeah not a fan of the 2d side view either.

As I love Terraria and love RPG's, this looks like a cool idea. Let's see what he manages to make of it.

I've played a heap of Terraria and Starbound with my kids, and thoroughly enjoyed them. Something like them, but more RPG-ish, and by Brevik no less? Sounds awesome.

For fans of the sidescrolling action RPG, I have to recommend UnEpic.
Not my genre at all but this game has everything going for it.