Depths of Peril

$9.99

Release Date:: Nov 23, 2010
Metacritic:: 79
Developer:: Soldak Entertainment
Publisher:: Soldak Entertainment
Platforms:: Windows Mac Linux

Strategy Indie RPG Family Sharing Single-player

About This Game

Depths of Peril is a single player action RPG (role-playing game) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death!
As a faction leader, you must deal with rival factions through diplomacy, trade, and in time, war. Between battles and raids against other barbarian factions, you build the most powerful faction possible, to withstand your enemies. Building the power of a faction involves exploring a fantasy world, slaying dangerous monsters, solving quests for the city, avoiding deadly traps, and plundering loot to share within your faction.
But in this world, actions actually have consequences, so take care. Annoying the powerful and aggressive Legion of Fear faction will cause them to declare war and destroy you. Ignored Orc uprisings in the Black Forest will cause even more trouble. Protect ally covenants that are being raided, because friends are hard to come by.

A unique blend of action RPG with strategy elements
Play as a leader of a faction fighting for supremacy
Navigate relationships with enemy factions using diplomacy, trade, war, and raids
Experience real and hard consequences from a living world
Explore a breathing, evolving world
Traverse a random, seamless world
Delve into a deep wellspring of history (40+ short stories, 60,000+ words)

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

2 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #900710 english

9 hrs at review

Recommended

Every negative review of this game is like "yeah, I know it was made back in 2007 by one dude who hadn't made a game before. but Diablo 2, a game made by a multi million dollar company with a whole team of experienced developers, is better. so why not just play that?" and that's about as far as your care for those reviews or some of this games issues should go. it's a first release from a solo indie dev made nearly 20 years ago. it is incredibly competent for what it is, surprisingly fun and engaging and has this constant feeling of nostagla when you were a kid sitting in front of your tv playing mario 64 or something for the first time. it's fun, it plays well jank aside, its cheap and the fanbase is small so no one here hates each other yet. buy the game, accept it for what it is P.S: the mods, like the music and balance mods, make it so much better.

User #169754 english

51 hrs at review

Recommended

Please for the love of God, remaster this or find a way to give it a sequel with multiplayer. To this day no game has really nailed this formula anywhere near as well.