Deus Novum

This is indie black and white. It is pretty early but I did play 2 hours in my first sitting and completed the first island. I probably will do it again to explore some more and try and improve my skills with it. If you like black and white and don't mind the budget experience this looks like a game where the dev legitimately understood the best parts of black and white and captured them. You can set things on fire and smash buildings with rocks, you can teach your pet, you can micromanage and perform a bunch of tasks for your villagers, you can build infrastructure, and much like the games of old, you can absolutely terrorize your enemies with fireballs, and various combat miracles and delight in their misery. In this game, since you are fighting evil child-kidnapping goblins, you don't even have to feel guilty about it. Edit: I just started a massive forest fire and had a swarm of ents murder half of my villagers, then my creature picked up an ent and threw it into the ocean.

Ever wish they made a Black and White 3? Me too! Come relive some of that old nostalgia with me as Black and White gets re-imagined. It’s currently in early access but in just the couple days I’ve been playing it there has been a ton of progress. I’ve seen bugs patched within minutes of being reported which is impressive because there is only one developer (join the discord with us).

It's enjoyable the same way the movie 'the room' is enjoyable. It is very nice to see another attempt at the Black & White formula. All of the mechanical implementations are fair for a starting point. I think since they've changed the way worship sites worked, that whole implementation should be its own quest. I like that you can access all of your miracles from a radial menu. Several of the mechanics that are working from what we remember about black & white, but all of them are barely working and a little jank. I wish it was more clear how repopulating a village works. I never felt that I was able to adequately take charge of what my creature was learning and interactions with the creature and the world at large feel stiff generally. I never figured out how to leave the first world, if it's not possible it would have been good to learn that through some prompt. I wish you could close any open menus by hitting escape one time. The bookmark placement and travel system is missing but ...

I can't properly test it because of the bad performance. :( (High CPU & GPU usage) Edit: Sadly still a laggy experience at minimal settings. :(

This game is the closest thing to a spiritual successor to the Black and White series I've found so far. I absolutely loved those games, and played them constantly as a kid. Deus Novum is still in a pretty rough state, in my opinion. The animations and textures are very barebones, and the game isn't at all what I would call stable. That being said, the developer is extremely good at communicating and working with the community on bugs, and seems very dedicated to continuing development until the game is finished. This hasn't really made as much progress as I had hoped. The last update was 6 months ago, and the game is still no where close to as good as Black and White was.