Elderborn
ELDERBORN is a Metal Action Fantasy Slasher with brütal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, the barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. The player becomes a merciless slayer who will uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom, and forge their own destiny. This ambitious indie game, five years in the making, combines old-school single-player feel, a classic heroic story, and modern level of skill-based challenge. All this and more creates an action-packed, lore-filled, engaging adventure that will last 8-10 hours in a single play-through. Prepare for: Skill-based, souls-like melee combat in first person perspective, complete with 11 varied weapons to master Character progression and skill system that allows you to play the game in your very own way A hand-crafted, mysterious, and dangerous world to explore – catacombs, ancient, monolithic city, and more
Game Discussion
Steam User 11
Dark Souls meets Diablo meets Doom. Slash and hack your way through the land of the dead facing monsters through the fire and brimstone. Everything a dungeon crawler should feel like without any unduly complex extras.
Here's the thing, a game (as an adult) should be 1) Good and 2) Short. These games that claim over 50+ hours worth of content require you to sit there for over 2 days' worth of time. I can't do that anymore. I need something that knows what it's doing and does it for less than 10 hours.
Robocop is like that. This is too.
Steam User 8
Elderborn is almost a good game. It's got most of the ingredients that would require, such as strong visuals, tight gameplay, and varied enemies. But the placement of those enemies is so terrible and ill-conceived that it basically ruins the entire game.
Steam User 6
Soulslike first person fastpaced melee game, with a high selection of weapon choices and satisfying combat mechanics, especially parrying.
The parry in this game is absolute Chef's kiss.
Steam User 5
Very satisfying combat! Getting bullet time on a successful parry feels great, and so does launching foes with a heavy swing of the hammer. However, the game is very short. Only took me 5 hours to beat the campaign. Therefore, I'd recommend it if you can get it for $5-10. I wish it was much longer!
Steam User 4
The first chapter is a complete mis-fire. This type of game demands an open air environment. Putting it in a cave for the beginning just feels claustrophobic. The rest of the game is insanely good OMG please make more of this
Steam User 2
For the price of a cup of coffee, you get an absolute banger of a soundtrack AND the dark fantasy love child of DOOM. Not into Souls-likes? Neither am I—but crank it to Hard AF, and it’s pure Doom-style carnage with a sprinkle of Souls flavor. Cheap, brutal, badass.
Steam User 4
this game is good but feels unfinished or rushed near the end, everything you encounter in the first two acts is thrown out the window in act three, no point in leveling up since you are given god mode, with a one tap weapon, no bosses, or anything just turns into a wave arena with all enemies encountered. You get 10 weapons where you can just use 3-4 throughout the whole game n be fine, since some just feel like a reskin. the parry system is a bit wonky but when you land them its very satisfying, you can also spartan kick or tear someone head off n launch it across the map