Dark Devotion
The eternal suffering of The Templars is both a blessing and a curse – salvation is born through sacrifice, and no sacrifice is too great to praise your God. A mystical temple teeming with a strange life-like energy of its own awaits you on your sacred crusade of suffering and redemption that will take you to the depths of traditions spanning centuries – and leave you questioning your faith and your own existence. Developed by French studio Hibernian Workshop and published by The Arcade Crew, Dark Devotion features a rich, detailed and immersive narrative that unfolds a sombre tale of your religion’s undeniable calling where every encounter is a challenge of suffering, piety and conviction – but most importantly, it’s a fight to the death.
Game Discussion
Steam User 6
Dark Devotion is an unconventional souls game that’s somewhat hamstrung by some questionable rogue-like mechanics. But it’s definitely well made and interesting enough to appeal to a certain style of souls player.
Some reviewers claim that this is a roguelike which is a genre a lot of people are sick of in the indie space. But this is not really true in that the levels are not procedurally generated. The game does have a roguelike structure in that you need to do more runs in order to unlock better abilities and better weapons.
The game starts out extremely punishing with your character being very weak as well. So you have to be patient to progress further to get more powerful.
The dreary atmosphere and the focus on traditional dungeoneering with traps and shadows is excellent.
Also if your like me and wants souls games to go back to more deliberate and strategic combat, this game will be for you bc it really is about patience and using the right windows to attack decisively.
Steam User 3
I wish there were more games like this one, exploring a roguelike dungeon that is not procedural is great, learning the layout, discovering its secrets learning how to defeat its enemies, planing the best route to the boss taking in mind the number of enemies, drops and hidden weapons you can find along the way to bring into the fight, getting familiar with the traps designing and changing your strategy each run while unlocking base weapons and upgrades at the base to be more prepared for each run.
I love the aesthetics of the game the oppressive atmosphere and the sense of danger of the dungeon and the calm and sense of company of the safeheavens.
There is a great variety of weapons each with is own move set, I discovered my favourite 3/4 into the game. The bosses most of them fall on the easy side if you got enough prep but it feels accelerating to beat a boss when you get in with low resources and at an inch of your life
my only complaint is the final boss, due to rng sometimes it feels like "its my turn yet" kind of situation it has a 3 combo attack that depending on your luck it can do up to six time in a row so 18 attacks in a row and the stamina bar at max only helped me to dodge up to the 10th attack, so yeah I did not survive that.
10/10 would die again
Steam User 2
I really loved this game. Its a great 2D souls-like, not that difficult to master, lots of things to experiment on and rewards your good memory and exploration.
Each run gets easier as you find more startup gear, runes and blessings to start your next run.
The bosses are all nicely designed and diverse, enemy variety is great and I specially liked the level design and secret finding logic (really well done, fair secret areas and runes that make you stronger and reward your good memory and attention).
My favorite of its type so far, its surprising all the content it packs and does not take too long to fully enjoy the experience.
Steam User 2
Great game, gotta learn your routes and save items you pick up. Takes a bit to get into it but once you've beaten a boss or two, it really opens up.
Steam User 1
Overall experience:
Game is turn out great than I think. a lot of thing to do and to unlock, include secret here and there to be discover.
Fan of metroidvania game with a bit of roguelite element should not miss this gem.
Good Part:
control are tight enough (Play with M+KB).
didn't experience any bug yet (30+ hr playtime).
try to solve secret kinda fun tbh.
a lot variety of items that useful along the journey.
Downside:
a bit hard to go for 100 % achievements due to some RNG element.
can't backtracking at all you have to start a new run only.
can't jump... nothing more to say here. :(
Steam User 3
Yes, it's missing some basic quality of life options. But the game is great beyond that. It might take a few tries before understanding how the gameplay works and how the game wants you to play, but once done, it's a fun ride. There are many secrets to seek, so if you like exploring and finding everything, you will spend many hours in the depths of Dark Devotion.
Steam User 3
This game is op, I played more then 13+ ours, cause if Steam in offline mode it doesn't count all your time. Best thriller with souls-like mechanics that i had in 10 years. With achivement it looks like meytoidvania. Highly recommended, very challenging