An Isometric Hades like with An Arthurian Twist! – Sworn Demo –
7Sworn is an Isometric, Action RPG Hades like with an Arthurian, as opposed to Greek twist.
A roguelite with random dungeon lvls made with Procedural Generation, Sworn offers an even tougher feeling Hades!
Do you dare?!
An Arthurian RPG?
There is a good Arthurian theme here, but Sworn is a Meta Progression stacking, Hades like RPG, so much of the player choice and RPG-ness of the game will be seen through that very roguelite lens.
The RPG in Sworn is tied to which of the 4 characters you choose, with 2 available by default in the HUB area, and 2 more available to unlock for meta currency.
Much like Hades, blessings from powerful patrons define much of your power progression here, with you able to pick from of 1 of 3 patrons once you clear a blessing room, who then let you pick 1 of 3 themed abilities; usually a buff for the dash, the power attack, or the spell; so there is some meaningful RPG here.
Snappy and The Combat:
The movement in Sworn feels fast and very snappy; good.
Much like Hades, there is no stamina system; though some abilities like the spells are based off a short cooldown.
The enemies feel a bit tankie here, a bit more so than in Hades, and they hit VERY hard, so don’t get hit!
I started with 50hp with the default character, and 1 hit takes me down to 39, so 4 hits like that will drop me; be careful!
Much like Hades, the combat in Sworn is all about not pushing your luck and timing that dodge to not get hit, so don’t get greedy or lazy!
Remember: Your dash lets you dash right through monsters, so abuse that 1 second cooldown to avoid the hits!
Again: Use that dodge to avoid those punishing hits!
Meta Progression:
As a roguelite, Meta Progression is a big part of Sworn.
When you die, you get a constellation screen, that hungers for your collected meta currencies gathered in your runs, granting bonuses in the trees as you spend them; you can also refund spent points if you like.
Some of these upgrades seem very powerful; making me wonder how vital they are to complete the game; I suspect very vital for most.
There is also a Hades like HUB area, where there are characters to interact with to unlock more meta progression.
There are currently 2 more characters to unlock for the purple stuff, called Crystal Shards.
There are also 3 other weapons to unlock for blue stuff, and 3 other spells for yet more blue stuff; ok.
There are some kind of weird blessings off old man Fisher King too; I don’t know much about those; seems kinda creepy; no thank you fisher man!
Controller Support is present, and good, as is good old mouse and keyboard.
I went mostly with mouse and keyboard in the above video, as that is what I’m far more familiar with.
Online Co-op is present as well, in case that is something that interests you.
Note: This is an Early look at Sworn so any bugs or other oddness is not representative of the final product.
Still, Sworn is a fun Hades like Isometric, Action RPG like with an Arthurian, as opposed to Greek twist, and is easily well worth a wishlist and a watch.
Watch?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763250/SWORN/
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