Morbid - Released

The Action-RPG Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is now available:

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes

You are the last surviving Striver of Dibrom. Your duty, for which you have trained your whole life, is to defeat the Seven Acolytes, accursed and powerful beings, possessed by malevolent deities called Gahars.

Experience epic bosses and a multitude of bloodthirsty encounters as you build your character.
Challenging foes, mini-bosses, and memorable large-scale boss fights with fully orchestrated music, are central to the world of Morbid. To overcome these obstacles you must master the combat, as well as improve your character and gear through a wealth of elements such as Quests, Perks, Runes, Upgrades, and Looting.

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Explore the diverse fantasy world of Mornia abundant with deep and immersive lore.
The Gahars have bound their twisted minds to the flesh of the Seven Acolytes, for without hosts they cannot survive. You must slay the Acolytes, thus ridding the Gahars of their flesh. Succeed, and you'll free the kingdom from the heavy yoke of their terror. Fail, and the malicious gods rule on, as the Acolytes rise anew, and madness prevails.

Features Overview

• Experience epic, brutal boss encounters and explore a diverse array of environments
• Perk levelling system with multiple ways to build your character
• Deep, immersive lore with NPC's to meet throughout the world
• Over 25 Unique Melee Weapons, such as Swords, Axes, Maces, Spears, Two-Handers, as well several guns ranging from Pistols, Shotguns and Rifles
• Epic fully orchestrated soundtrack comprising of 18 tracks
• Health, Stamina and Sanity management is important as you traverse the world

More information.

Game looks good but no mouse in the menus or inventory, real game breaker for me

No mouse isn't a big deal to me. This doesn't look like the kind of game I'd want to play with M+K.

http://www.thegameslashers.com/morbi…s-review.html/

a review

You can play with m&k in the actual game. You actually use WASD for movement, spacebar for dodge-roll and left-click/right-clicks for sword/gun usage. It's just the menus that are keyboard only.

But they also don't offer rebinds. It's all very minimal in options.

That review mentions a demo, but it's no longer available afaict. A shame because I'd really like to try it.

This was supposed be another 2D Souls clone right? I might give it a try.

With the name "Morbid", I really had expected an extreme metal soundtrack.

a pibbur who assumes that behind any disgusting/nasty/yechy word there is an extreme metal band.

Originally Posted by porcozaur
http://www.thegameslashers.com/morbi…s-review.html/

"fantastic aesthetics"? For Late 90s maybe.

Originally Posted by Telstar
"fantastic aesthetics"? For Late 90s maybe.

It's pixel art so it's intentionally retro. I'm not a big fan of the style myself, but some look better than others. I think this one looks pretty good at least from an artistic standpoint.

Game looks damn great. I missed hand-drawn and pixel-art games from 90s so much when whole game industry jumped on 3D bandwagon. Very glad indie scene revived it for us. Cant imagine why people keep complaining about it. There is more then enough games in different styles for everybody to choose from these days.

Anyway, will wait for review on Switch to hear about performance there and then will choose on which platform to spend the money.

FYI, Jake reviews this game and considering how nitpicky he is, the review is quite positive:
https://killapenguin.com/gamereviews…olytes-review/

Bought on Switch just now, will try out tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Andrew23
Game looks damn great. I missed hand-drawn and pixel-art games from 90s so much when whole game industry jumped on 3D bandwagon.

I don't miss it at all, probably because I was playing all those titles (EOB for once) and I saw the 16M graphics as progress, which was 2D before 3D was such a fuss everyone and their cousin had to use it.

Originally Posted by Telstar
I don't miss it at all, probably because I was playing all those titles (EOB for once) and I saw the 16M graphics as progress, which was 2D before 3D was such a fuss everyone and their cousin had to use it.

More probably its matter of taste. Started playing long before pixelated games of 90s myself and I still appreciate them today.