Dark Raider

Dark Raider is a fast-paced action game where players can freely choose from three classes to explore hundreds of dungeons. Facing randomly appearing enemies and bosses, players must skillfully utilize various skills to eliminate the endless waves of foes, continuously leveling up to unlock different hero abilities and create their own unique combat system. Because the game incorporates Roguelike elements, each playthrough will randomly generate map environments and enemies, and the abilities gained upon leveling up will also be randomized, adding to the game's immersive and engaging gameplay.

Features: of Dark Raider:

Dark Raider is a new retro Action game brought to you by the same team that gave you Tribemen. Raid hundreds of dungeons, hack through waves of enemies, and defeat powerful bosses in this new take to the Hack & Slash action genre.

The game uses random maps. The player needs to explore new areas and fight against different monsters every time, the dungeon will reset upon the player’s death. So the player will never do the same run twice.

As the mainline advances, you can unlock three different heroes. They are Warrior, Mage and Barbarian. Warrior focuses on fast attack speed and quick movement, he is the best choice to deal with fast enemies. Mage focuses on burst damage, she is very squishy but can deal tons of damage. Barbarian focuses on survive, he has higher defense and more health, but he also has the slowest attack speed.

Dark Raider has its unique art style. It uses the modern way to create a retro feeling. It also uses TFR-ISO to make the dungeon more immerse. The player will have a chance to explore this great fantasy world and enjoy their adventure.

Player Comments of Dark Raider:

Sadly the game currently freezes on the 4th boss for me. If I am to trust the early access notes, this is relatively early in the game. I won't bash on the developers for now, this is what the early access is for, I understand that indie developer can't properly test the game, we'll have to see how quickly these glitches get addressed. Right now I only see a total of 5 bosses, but I assume there are more areas and bosses based on the waypoints from the hub, I just can't confirm that until the glitches are fixed.So if anyone is wondering, this is not a rogue-lite, just a good old hack&slash where you don't lose progress and can do some upgrading from the hub. I am almost tempted to call it a boss rush game just because the actual stages only take 3-5 minutes, but there are regular enemies in the game. There are a few playable characters that you can access from the 'Mage' in the town - I only have access to 2 of them, with the third apparently being locked behind progression. You can also upgrade your stats and equip runes that mostly do some passive effects.The combat system is serviceable, although there are many small things that could be improved upon, mainly the stamina use. It takes like 5-6 seconds to get enough stamina for a single dash when enemies can easily attack every few seconds. It gets a lot better once you invest more into stamina regeneration, but I still feel like the regeneration out of combat should be a lot higher. Staying on the subject of the stamina use, I also think that blocking consumes too much, considering that you are heavily reliant on it when fighting bosses with insane hit-boxes. The combat can get a bit tedious without having any additional active skills. I would recommend adding a few cooldown abilities for each character that could be chained with regular attacks. One more thing in regards to the health recovery, right now you have to break vases to get the health back which you might do on accident, perhaps that should be replaced with an active skill that consumes potions.

i have to say i really like this game a lot, and yeah the graphics at first took a bit to get use to but i like how it makes the game unique overall, well obviously i new the graphics were going to be this style for the game because i did watch reviews first before purchasing this game but the thing is, it was not the graphics that got me interested in this game, it was the combat mechanics and i have to say i am impressed with the combat most of all that is what made me buy this game, because their is nothing more i like then a hack and slash RPG with really good combat mechanics and this game has it done perfect from the hacking and slashing, to the perfect blocking and counter attacking, i absolutely love it, so its true what they say hey its not about graphics its about the game play and boy i tell ya this game has some awesome game play so yeah i am really looking forward to seeing how this game develops and i will further support it as well if any future DLC also comes available for the game because i really find myself getting into this game and want to see a lot more added to it, and i am so glad i came across this game because i have been looking for a real good hack and slash RPG for a while now and this game is perfect it has the perfect combat mechanics, just what i like from an A.R.P.G so yeah KUDOS to you Developers, this game to me is a diamond in the rough out of all the hack and slash titles i have sifted through here on Steam.

Summary:

Dark Raider is an excellent action game with touches of role-playing. Not only does it have fun gameplay, but it also has amazing pixelated graphics. It's an outstanding game which requires plenty of skill and patience. Do you have what it takes?