The Demo is available for Windows OS. Linux and Mac OS versions will be available when the game launches on July 2020.
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Inspired by Norse Mythology the game takes place in an Alternate History with many twists and new mechanics within a Lowpoly Cartoonish World.
Features
Story
Viking Vengeance has a rich world and captivating story that is woven into every aspect of the game. Each new stage will reveal an intriguing missing part of the puzzle.
Classes Identity
The classes’ identity is reflected in class-specific gear and visuals, special skills and specific weapons traits. From the very first glance you’ll be able to identify the traits of your weapon of choice. Each class has a well defined theme expressed in both aesthetics and play style, while still allowing a good amount of customization.
Player Choice
Each character can be constructed using an unique mix of abilities, gear, skills and stats to be a reflection of the player. Each player will have the opportunity to build their character the way they see fit. We encourage thinking outside the box and promote experimentation.
We will provide you with the tools necessary to make a character truly yours.
Vision
Our goal with Viking Vengeance is to deliver a gameplay experience in which your approach to an encounter will only be limited by your choices and we hope it will be unique and satisfying.
It all began as a trembling flame that turned into a full blown conflict between the two faiths.Seeing no other way to stop the unnecessary bloodshed, the Templars acted as ambassadors and signed a peace treaty with the vikings.
Years passed and the Dark Ages began bringing hunger, famine, plague and violence. The common people believed that the peace treaty with the heathens unleashed God’s Wrath.They started protests throughout the kingdoms and soon enough the Templars were arrested and the peace treaty voided. One Templar Knight managed to escape.
The last Templar went on a quest to find the Holy Grail. His only wish was to put an end to the Dark Ages and heal the world. Through his perseverance he managed to find the Holy Grail, put an end to the peace treaty and be proclaimed Emperor by the people.Through this new position and with the aid of the Holy Grail, he restored the Templars’ Order, this time as a military force with the purpose of eradicating all the heathens and avoiding a new Dark Age.
Witnessing the unnecessary bloodshed of innocent people, a Sergeant has a change of heart and turns his back on his fellow Crusaders during his Teuton Knight Initiation process.
Trying to reconnect with your people, from whom you were taken as a child, and to put an end to the Templar oppression, you will rediscover your original Gods and you will be harnessing their powers. You will find out the legend of an ancient weapon that could change everything.
Be advised your actions may cause unexpected repercussions.
GODS
During your journey in the Vikings’ world you will come across different Idol statues of Gods that you can unlock. Each God is unique and will come with its own set of powers and abilities. It is up to you to choose a God of your liking to devote your life to.
By acts of utter devotion you will gain your God’s favors, they will give you their powers in battle or grant you the ability to become their avatar for a limited period of time. Gods are all mighty, they don’t listen to the mortals’ callings all the time. Some of your calls will go unanswered.
You can unlock this power by filling up your devotion bar. Performing certain actions such as finding Runes will grant you more abilities during your avatar state while others like defeating certain enemies, damaging Templar flags or other artifacts will help fill up your devotion bar faster.
When your devotion bar is full you will be able to pray and will have good chances to receive an answer from your God. This depends on how many offerings you brought to your God how pleased he is with you and what equipment you have on. In the worst case scenario, the God deems you unworthy of his time. If you are lucky enough you will become the God’s avatar for a limited period of time, gaining massive powers and a new set of abilities.
The choices you make regarding new items will affect the way your devotion bar fills up and the way your God will respond to your prayers.
The game provides different ways of influencing your God and how he will aid you in battle.
Classes/Builds/Combat
You can choose between three different classes, each with its unique gears and weapons. Characters in Viking Vengeance are visually distinct and grant access to different skills and items that have to be used in combination with the God mechanic. These combinations allow you to build unique experiences every time and influence the way you approach encounters.
Each class will have the ability to execute the enemies after their health reaches a certain threshold. Executing enemies will either give you health back or extra blood currency which can be used for reviving, boosting your devotion or for other gains.
Level Up
Leveling up in Viking Vengeance consists in receiving options to choose from at certain levels as well as receiving extra stat points.
At certain levels you receive options of items and weapons to choose from that are brought to you by the only Valkyrie that is willing to help you. At other levels you will receive options for new skills or upgrades for the current ones.
We have designed the characters to have a maximum of 6 basic abilities, one weapon trait ability and one ultimate ability. We hope this will result in engaging experiences.
AFTER LIFE
In Viking Vengeance, death comes at a price.
Your options will be Reviving on the spot for a large blood cost or going to Valhalla and escape it. When returning to Midgard from Valhalla you will always be marked by Valkeries with different intensity effects, depending on your results in the challenges of the After life. While marked the Valkeries will hunt you and try to get you back to the spirit world.
You will have to choose the price of your death, come back marked or be willing to sacrifice your hard earned blood currency. Each option has their downsides, so use them wisely.
Monsters & Enemies
In Viking Vengeance, enemies will be memorable and have different behaviors, strengths and weaknesses. Enemies will only appear in specific areas and they will come with their own specific and unique moves that will require new strategies for their defeat. We aim towards making each encounter different and not just destroy entire waves with one blow.
You will remember when a clumsy and slow Jotun will manage to land a hit, you will remember that the Dragur attacks are burning up points from your devotion bar, preventing you from using the power of the Gods. Another intriguing enemy will be the Templar Priest who has a divine shield from his God, making him invulnerable to non God attacks. Whenever you will encounter a new enemy, it will be a new experience.
Rune stones
While discovering the world of Viking Vengeance, you will come across Runes, blessed stones that will offer benefits on your journey. The most important Runes you need to find are the Nine Noble Virtues.
Finding all the nine stone is your main mission. It is said that once all the Noble Virtues are together, they will form a powerful legendary weapon of the Gods. This weapon has the potential to change the fate of the world.
The Nine Noble Virtues will reveal their origin story by deciphering the mosaics you will gather. You will encounter nine mosaics, one for each Noble Virtue.
END GAME REPLAYABILITY RAID MODE
After completing the story your job is still far from over. Even if you manage to push back the Templar conquest, the War goes on. This time it will be different. This time you will bring the war to them, after giving back much needed hope to your people you will start fighting in the Raid game mode.
Lowpoly Interactive
We are an indie game development studio, passionate about history and making games that will take you on journeys inside mythical worlds, challenge you and tell you stories you might be familiar with, but from a new perspective, through unique aesthetics and design. Our team is composed of people from 4 continents: America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
History…
For most of us it all started when we met on a Warcraft 3 Modding Forum that we created called Chaos Realm in 2011. We quickly realized we are addicted to bringing to life custom characters or creating custom maps. This got us into Game Development.
Today …
Years later, after working different jobs, we have regrouped to use our skills and experience together to create standalone games. We aim to create memorable experiences for the players and in the end develop the kind of games that we love playing. Our first standalone project as a team is Viking Vengeance.
Bogdan Radu (Team Leader, Developer, Designer, 3D Modeler)
Founder of Wc3 modding community Chaos Realm, and of Lowpoly Workshop 3D Community, Bogdan has worked in the game industry for over 6 years.
Lucian Ionescu (Lead Designer, 3D Modeler, Writer)
The creative mind behind the Viking Vengeance story, concepts, character builds, flow as well as 3D Models.
Darrel Magali (Lead Animator)
Darrel is a self-taught animator who wants to share his love of the arts and video games. He is fluent in 3D and 2D animations and he is an addicted gamer.
Machuji Muto (Animator, Tester)
Warcraft3 Battlestadium DON Mapmaker, downloaded more than 1 million times, a skilled generalist, Machuji brings his expertise and experience to the project.
Edwin Montgomery (Music Composer)
Edwin has created music and sounds for many fantasy game worlds including Warhammer 40,000, Game of Thrones, Dungeons & Dragons and Wasteland.
Alexandru Patras (2D Illustrator)
Alex is a talented the 2D Artist working on most of the promotional materials needed as well as splash screens and covers.
We would also like to offer special thanks to Claudiu Fiat who did the Gameplay Trailer and Zaharia Sabin-Alexandru who has been our Main Game Tester.
After 13 months of development with money out of our own pocket we are close to having the foundation complete but we need your help to continue adding new content and bring you the complete game.
Starting a Kickstarter campaign requires a lot of work and comes with risks but we believe this is all worth it for the following reasons:
Community
We started Viking Vengeance determined to bring a new type of RPG to the user and we want to see the game in front of as many people interested in it as possible!
We intend to participate in every gaming conference and event that we could afford. Talking to gamers or other developers and sharing Viking Vengeance to receive feedback means the world to us.
We hope to grow our community and engage with the backers and our players even closer. We also expect to receive a lot of feedback and suggestions, the only way to developing and designing a truly great game, worthy of your time.
We are firm believers that only with a strong community a game could be a success.
Financial Aspect
The project was entirely self-funded so far and after 13 months of development we are close to having the foundation complete but we need your help to continue adding new content and bring you the complete and polished game.
Thank you very much for reading this and for your interest in Viking Vengeance! We are extremely excited to run this Kickstarter campaign.
We would be thrilled and humbled if you could help the development of the game in any way you can: back the project, join our Discord, tell a friend, share it or play the demo!
Over the past year we have made tremendous strides towards bringing Viking Vengeance to life. Countless hours have been poured into developing core systems, learning how to craft entertaining levels, classes, and more. Even with this progress, we are far from being able to put the complete Viking Vengeance experience in your hands, and that’s where your generous support comes in.
Kickstarter has been an amazing space for all kinds of unique, fantastic games that otherwise may never have been made.
We’ve been working full-time for a few months now, but to continue working full-time on this project we need a little financial support. We’re putting everything we can into this project every single day and we’re asking you to trust us when we say: Viking Vengeance will be a powerful and amazing experience. The money, feedback and support you invest in it will be worth it!
We want to increase the development budget so we can increase the size of our development team. This in turn will allow us to further increase the amount of gameplay in our game world. We are convinced that we are close to making a great RPG and we want to rise to the occasion by investing everything we can into it. So far the game has been funded by us, but we have reached the limit of what we can do on our own. Here’s where your help becomes very valuable and where you can make the difference. With a bigger budget we’ll be able to go the extra mile, and accomplish our full vision for the game, as fantastic as it deserves to be.
Without your support, we think the result of our efforts will make a good Vikings RPG, but with your support we can make an extraordinary RPG, one of a kind. For this opportunity we would like to wholeheartedly say THANK YOU!
We have been working on Viking Vengeance for more than thirteen months now in which we have already overcome many obstacles and challenges. We are aware of the many more in front of us and the fact that Game development comes with certain risks, now more than ever. There might always be unexpected issues that might delay the release of the game. We will regularly post updates to Kickstarter, our Discord server and social media pages to show our progress and keep you in the loop. We are planning carefully and doing everything in our power to avoid delays and we believe that with the support of the community we will be able to deliver a great game to you, in time. Delay in manufacturing: Depending on your pledge, you might be entitled to a free Mousepad, Posters, Printed Artbook, T-Shirts, 3D Printed Figurines or other perks. Delays from the manufacturing companies might stop us from shipping out the gifts sooner. In such cases, we will notify you beforehand and tell you when you will receive your items.