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
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 9
ELDERBORN is kinda like Dark Souls and DOOM had a little badass low-poly baby raised by an indie studio that provided metal music and monster energy drinks instead of milk. And it's simple. You charge in with a sword, hacking through enemies like you're auditioning for a Viking metal band, with the combat satisfying enough to be borderline therapeutic. The story? It’s there, but honestly, who cares when you’re too busy cleaving las esqueletos and smashing sh*t? If you’ve ever wanted to feel like the world’s angriest barbarian with a little buzz and a caffeine high, this is a game. 8.5/10 would swing axe again.
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 3
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 4
At 7 hours in I have completed the main game in hard which is the 2nd difficulty level. Overall it is a nice solid title. Runs well on my old PC using RX580 & the original Ryzen 5 cpu. Controls are slick, as is the game play. I died a lot, sometimes to falling off the map (not a glitch) but mostly due to me timing either an attack, block or parry badly. It feels fair. Combat is one of those ones where if you do block or attack at the wrong time you're left wide open and will take damage, often this is 50% of your total health in one hit. I guess if you're not used to games that punish your mistakes this one can be a bit of a steep learning curve.
There's a certain point in the game where you go from, I can tank a few hits and survive to, why are the enemies doing so much damage to me. I am ready to uninstall. But for me and it seems judging by the other reviews it's worth persevering.
I guess for me the big down side was the maps. They were confusing for me but maybe it's going for some old skool vibe where you run around like a headless chicken until you eventually end up in the right location.
Steam User 3
First 20 Minutes Gameplay Here
First of all, Yes! This game was made with unity... The graphics style resembles the game "Hand of Fate" - at least the fighting scenes - but nothing else is common. This is a fast-paced skill based, conan meets doom with metal music in the background kinda game! And it's hellova fun! Yes, it has its bugs and it's not that easy... You've got to get the hang of it... Still, go play now if you haven't already!
Sad it's not that long