Summary

  • The game Alkahest is billed as a “spiritual successor” to the 2005 action role-playing game Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, and it shares many similar features, includingAccomodating combat mechanics that allow players to use their environment creatively to defeat enemies, featuring goblins as adversaries.
  • It also draws influence from Dishonored, showcasing a similar focus on unconventional weaponry and physics-based puzzles.
  • The game employs a reactive combat system that encourages players to experiment with their surroundings.
  • Trailers show players using grappling arrows to launch themselves into the air and then grab a nearby barrel to batter a goblin with it mid-air.
  • Players can also kick objects like barrels at enemies and slide into enemies to perform martial arts-style take-downs.
  • Alkahest’s fantasy world is open world and encourages exploration and creative combat experimentation, with no firm release date yet but plenty of footage and pre-rendered trailers to encourage players to explore the game on Steam.

By Nic Reuben

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