Разработчик: Prism Game Studios Ltd.
Описание
Characters
The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge is an action-adventure game with a variety of carefully crafted levels. You will start by creating your character for each particular level. You can customize the character’s name, stats, weapon and appearance, giving each character you play a unique feel.After each level your personalized character gets added to the story’s cast of NPCs whom you can then talk to and interact with. As the story grows, so too does your cast of previous player characters.
Setting
The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge is set during a struggle between two opposing ideologies. After Prince Pico and the city-state of Volturno leave the anti-magic Tetrarchy to explore the alluring possibilities of the magic sciences, the other states band together to retake Volturno and stop whatever scheme Pico may have begun with his newly-acquired arcane knowledge...Story
You play as convicted prisoners, drafted into the Tetrarch’s army to undertake missions against Prince Pico’s forces and collect intelligence concerning his masterplan. While each prisoner has their own individual personality and backstory, all share one goal: to complete their assigned objectives and earn their freedom.Customization
When you create your character you will choose from a variety of weapons and distribute your skill points amongst four stats. Since your available skill points are limited, you will have to think carefully about how you invest them.The four stats of the Captives are:
- Health
Health helps your character survive damage – pretty straight forward! A character with lots of health will allow you more room for mistakes while a character with little health will have to be more careful to avoid damage. - Stamina
Stamina is used for each action in the game: attacking, defending and dodging. A character with lots of stamina will be able to chain together many attacks while a character with little stamina will have to be more tactical and patient. - Focus
Focus prevents your character from being staggered by enemy attacks. A character with lots of focus will be able to shrug off damage while swinging away at enemies while a character with little focus should try to fight enemies one at a time. - Movement
Movement determines the speed at which your character moves. A character with a lot of movement will be able to dance around their foes while a character with little movement will have to time their aggression carefully.
Playstyle
All the numbers in The Captives are very low so that the difference between spending a single stat point in health over movement can change the feel of how your character plays significantly.It’s not possible to create a character that is good at everything. Because you will play as multiple characters you can experiment with different weapons and stats and explore what the combat has to offer within a single playthrough, instead of being locked into one playstyle for the entire game.
Combat
The combat of The Captives is real-time tactical action in the style of the Zelda or Souls games. Anticipation and timing is a consistent key to success, although each character you create will require different approaches depending on how you invested your skill points.
Gameplay Modifiers
Replay the game with special Challenge Runs, combinations of unique modifiers to the game.These include Roguelike Challenge which randomises your build each time you play through the dungeons and Soul Challenge which restricts the number of checkpoints in the game and changes how healing works.
With a variety of individual modifiers you can also tweak the game to create your own challenge runs or make things a little easier if you get stuck.
When does this game release?
October 11th 2018Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Intel i5-3450 @ 3.10 GHz (4 CPUs)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Sound Card: Realtek High Definition On-board Audio
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Mac
Linux
Отзывы пользователей
If only Prism had marketed this game better! This is a highly enjoyable experience, lasting between 8-10 hours on a typical run. The writing is memorable and humorous, and makes some interesting lore which differentiates from typical fantasy media. The concepts and mechanics this game presents are unique - it plays like a more forgiving yet still challenging Dark Souls experience.
Prism unfortunately dissolved in January 2021, meaning they've essentially disbanded. That's likely due to the lack of marketing behind this game, as the game itself plays well with not many issues.
It makes me wonder an alternate timeline where the studio stayed together and made a sequel! They've created a whole original world here, with unique lore that I don't typically see in other fantasy media.
Played on a Steam Deck, on high settings, low shadows (and upscaled from a lower resolution) at a locked 72 fps.
Bought it on a whim for like 4 dollars and actually enjoyed it. Would recommend at that price.
So I want to go ahead and say that you could very well have fun with this game, I just don't think it's worth $16. The animation quality is pretty stiff, which makes combat very clunky. The UI screams of a generic asset flip, using basic fonts and windows that you'll find in hundreds of other subpar Unreal Engine indie games. If you're someone like me who is fine with simplicity as long as it is done really well, you might want to look elsewhere. Unfortunately, I felt like I was playing an early access title and was disappointed when I checked the store page and found that the game was released four years ago.
However, there are some aspects of the game that I absolutely love.
First of all, the customization. Despite being visually simple and low poly, the character creation has a shockingly large number of options for you to choose from. You can select from a lot of different faces, then layer on facial details like moles and scars along with makeup/tattoos. You can decide what armor you wear out of three categories: helmet, top, and bottom. Each category has lots of different options and you can even customize the color palette of each. The color options allow for you to have matching armor even if they aren't part of the same aesthetic set, which is something that even AAA games don't do.
Second, I love the overall idea behind the game. Slowly growing a group of custom heroes over an entire playthrough is so great. Having your original characters help out your newer characters in their journey as an NPC companion? Even better.
Third, the writing is funny and doesn't take itself too seriously. Part of me wishes the player had more agency during dialogue but if things are going to turn out the same either way, what's the point.
Is this a bad game? Not by any means at all. However, it is very rough around the edges and very likely an early project for an aspiring game studio. If you don't really care about polish and just love the idea of character creation, then you'll honestly probably dig this game. I just know that for me personally, the clunkiness does detract from my personal experience to the point where I have a hard time enjoying the game. I do hope the devs try and perfect this formula in the future though, I can tell they have some good ideas and great potential talent, they just need to practice a bit.
A LOVELY and charming game!
- Gameplay is simple, but has its challenge. And there are a LARGE range of modes to chose from for your own experience!
- Levels are simple, but have a lot of work put into them, given a very charming and pleasing visual direction. If they ever add a first-person mode to really immerse yourself in these levels, that'd be LOVELY!
- Music is funny, but has its personality.
- writing is nicely done. Not overly complex, and has a lot of clever and amusing dialogue.
- Customization has the perfect amount of options! Not so many that I'm picking between hundreds of eyes and hair styles that are too similar, and not so few that there's no reason for it to be there.
Is it worth 16 dollars? Only if you really enjoy this style of gameplay. I got it on sale, and it was a solid steal!
I would also recommend this game in general to financially support these people, as they made the amazing Portal Stories Mel Mod and well done Portal Stories VR game, BOTH free, and deserve the support!
This game is alright, fun and quite entertaining. Basic and simple overall. Make a prisoner, explore a dungeon with same shade enemies and find all 6 chests to increase stats of your choosing, kill boss and then make your next prisoner to do the next level.
There is nothing else to loot besides the chests and keys to open doors.
The story is interesting enough to want to keep playing it.
The combat feels clunky.
If the game feels too hard or too easy you have options to change it such as choosing your attacks to use less stamin or enemies to attack slower, you can choose multiple options and can make it harder also as in enemies have more health etc.
And if the weapon you have chosen doesn't feel right to defeat the boss you can restart the level and choose a different weapon and traits.
The only problem is it seems like the devs have abandoned it. As they never reply to any of the discussion posts. And there are broken achievements that would probably never be fixed.
I'd rate it 6/10 as it has broken achievements and no trading cards. But I did like playing this fun little adventure.
A gem in the rough. Clever, subversive writing and intricate customisation hidden among awkward controls and hitboxes.
Get used to the motions, and you'll be playing a tactical, comedic dark souls.
Such a good game thats been out for over a year and only a few have bought this.
It is cute and amusing, and it has options for making the gameplay harder or easier to suit different players.It's rather pleasant to play.
This indie game is a playful, whimsical take on the third-person action RPG genre. For a game of this magnitude, it has a surprising number of player customizations. You take on a dungeons to prove your innocence from a rather unusual base, a prison, with the Warden being your quest giver. I rather enjoyed the twist of circumstances.
Unlike recent string of dungeon crawlers with arcadey controls, the combat is more reaction based requiring a careful selection of player actions, especially if you are low on stamina. It's closer to Assassin's Creed but with what appears to be backstabbing bonus.
I do wish that the combat controls are more responsive and the rooms are bigger to make it easier for me to manuever and avoid the walls that obscure my view. However, the nice environmental storytelling more than makes up for these minor issues.
Personally, I think the clever humor and plenty of dialog is the differentiator for this game. If you are someone who skips dialogs, you will end up losing a lot of value. However, if you enjoy funny dialog that plays on the tropes of the genre itself set to some delightful music, then you should pick up a copy of The Captives.
I give it 8.5/10
This game is different and aweseome. A whole other way to tell a story. You create and play a new character/class with each chapter and you old characters stay relevant in you story and sometimes tag along! I normally don't write reviews but I want to assure you that this is a good investment of your time and money!
First a heads up - a friend of a friend was involved in the game, so I picked it up to support them. And honestly, I was not expecting much, because I am cynical and terrible. However, what I found was a thoroughly enjoyable game!
This is an isometric, fantasy-based adventure game, split across multiple levels and playable characters. Combined with a selection of different weapons that drastically change your tactics, enemies that vary in weapon equipment and AI (some of them try kiting you toward their friends! So cheeky!), and clever changes in level design, the 15-16 hours I spent on the game felt fresh all the way through.
Combat is the main crux of the game, and it borrows heavily from Dark Souls, with deliberately slow animations, a stamina system and parrying. This has clearly been carefully tweaked, as the combat has that Souls-like requirement for patience and tactical awareness - you can't just wade in and hammer buttons. It is more forgiving than Souls games though - health restoration is achieved by clearing a room, and the difficulty curve is much more gentle. That is not to say I found it easy. I still died a couple of hundred times.
The art style obviously does not have the polish of a big budget game but it is bright and bold, much like the playable characters themselves. All of them are amusing and charming, adding a huge slice of enjoyability to the game. As they make their way through an otherwise quite straightforward fantasy plot, they speak with a satire that is pointed but not overly so, and for me at least that lifts the writing above more po-faced or more unsubtly comedic games. There is also a twist at the end that caught me off guard and made me smile, although I suspect other people may well work it out ahead of time.
If I have any complaints, they will probably be aimed at some of the boss battles. Although some of them definitely are challenging, there are a couple that I waltzed through with relative ease. Sometimes they were much easier than rooms I had dealt with earlier in the level. Oh, and sometimes the music would go silent for long periods of time. And changing the gender of a character occasionally meant some of the dialogue used the wrong pronouns.
Overall, it was a very entertaining game, and fully endorsed by me, an internet rando. Recommended for: people that found Dark Souls too ugly, depressing or difficult; people that liked Dark Souls and want a fun variation on it; people that enjoy light comedic deconstructions of fantasy tropes; people that like building ensembles of customised characters and naming them after friends and family, so you can spin them around in your twisted little web.
Good
Played the Game, loved the Game, on Release. it has new spin on leveling up and add some flavor to the gamer's expirence with a diverse character customization section to really make the player the chacter.
it has a good use of humor in the script to keep us interested and have a few giggles along the way.
All in all for lovers of castle crawler type games this is a must. dive in head first for some thing different and fresh
Great dialogue, engaging combat, and versatile build options. What's not to love?
Absolutely amazing game! Loving every minute. A must buy for anyone ever!
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Prism Game Studios Ltd. |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 93% положительных (15) |