Volgarr the Viking is a 2D side-scrolling arcade action game that has all the hallmarks of the true classics - simple controls, high challenge, and meticulous design. Featuring hand-made pixel art and thousands of frames of animation by a professional pixel artist, an epic soundtrack on par with modern AAA titles, and some fantastic game mechanics both old and new, this is the hardcore arcade action game you've been waiting for.
We plan to include a wide variety of enemies and obstacles to overcome, several unique environments to conquer, and insane boss fights to really test your skills. Volgarr is up to the task with multiple powerful abilities for you to master - but not to the point where you can just blow through everything by mashing the attack button! Each of his abilities and special gear power-ups has been carefully tuned to be important and useful, and mastering them all is essential to overcoming everything the game can throw at you.
Fortunately, like all the best arcade games, the controls are simple (and fully customizable, including support for all DirectInput and XInput controllers in addition to the keyboard). Its just a matter learning where, when, and how to best use the actions at your disposal... and having the skill to do so.
Volgarr will be released as a Windows PC game initially, hopefully on Steam. If all goes well, once completed we hope to port the game to other platforms such as the Ouya (we supported Ouya on the developer level) and anywhere there is enough interest. This project funding is purely for the PC version, however.
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Once you quit you lose all your progress so be aware.
Drowning_witch wrote:
If you think dark souls is tough, this game will own you hard.
There is a difference between "hard' difficultly and "punishing" difficulty , though:
Game itself is short, but it gathers artificial length by making you restart whole level if you died. No checkpoints on bosses as well, just like in classic NES performers.
yeah i was trying to find the thread when i got the game on steam, but never could. was weird that no one was talking about this.
Fantastic game. im up to level 5 after a dozen hours at least.
If you think dark souls is tough, this game will own you hard.
Thanks to your advice I finally installed it and played for ~1 hour earlier this morning. It was simply one of the most brutal and infuriating experiences ever (and I mean, really..I wanted to punch my monitor ), but damned rewarding at the same time.
I decided to play with the 360 pad and the first 10 minutes were like pure hell for me, then I got enough confidence to clear the first two mini-areas until the rape-party started again. I'm impressed.
Once you quit you lose all your progress so be aware.
not quite true.
Spoiler:
you can jump backwards in every level 1 of each world until you reach the world you are currently at. it only saves lvl 1 out of 2.
Nope, game does not save anything at all. It creates c:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Crazy Viking Studios\ but that is. nothing being written there. I even tried to collect some data with FileMon/DiskMon but there was nothing as well. Walking back on the start screen just skip the tutorial.
and then you walk back again and skip world 1, and so on. do you really think im playing all 5 levels over from start every time? i'm not that hardcore lol, i play one level for 1-2 days
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