#apocryph

Apocryph is a blood splattered old school first person shooter set in a dark fantasy world that draws inspiration from Hexen and sees you attempting to dispatch hordes of bloodthirsty demons from your homeland.

Tearing Through the Heretic-Like Halls of the Apocryph Alpha

The Apocryph alpha is free to anyone who wants to check it out, available directly from the developer’s web site.  While it’s a bit short at a single level, it shows all the touches you’d hope to see in something inspired by classic ’90s FPSes.  Monsters are dumb and charge straight at you unless one hits another, at which point they start fighting.  The entire game is hand-designed, no roguelike anywhere, making for nicely intricate, nonlinear levels. 

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“Apocryph an old-school fantasy shooter such as Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and Strife..” The video drew my attention, and that isn’t just because the title name dropped Painkiller. The aesthetic and the rather awesome minigun-staff is what made me pay attention to the video. And since the dev is giving out the alpha build for free,…

Apocryph Brings Back Brutal Classic FPS-Style Gameplay | #IndieDev #IndieGame

Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Unreal, Hexen, Wolfenstein, these were the games that set the first person shooter genre on the map and made it what it is today. However, FPS games have taken a huge turn from their humble years and have greatly evolved over the years. (more…)