Dirk The Adventurer

The kingdom is in peril. Ancient evil slowly awakes, hole in the ground is getting bigger, new hellspawn crawls out from it and destroys northern provinces. Royal army and its leutenants are fighting uneasy battle and a call-to-arms is being raised to route all capable men to join the plight. As a young fighter's guild member you are among them and depart north with your colleagues... but after one happy night at the tavern they left and forgot about you! Those gophers! What's more taxing is that your equipment has been stolen, your tab isn't paid and you have no idea where the northern road actually is!

But that's not all. With the army and most of the fighting force moving north, the countryside is largely unguarded. Wildlife is getting angry. Monsters start roaming common roads. Old grudges can be finally enacted. Witches, sorceresses, fiends, rogues, thieves, smugglers, assassins, everyone who has hidden agendas are feeling the iron grip loosening, and in this environment one outsider can make all the difference.

But that won't affect you, right?

Dirk The Adventurer is an RPG adventure game that plays like no other game. It's part a point'n click game, part metroidvania, part choose your story rich RPG, but what does it mean really? In practice it's a project with focus on non-linear narrative. RPG elements play a large role as with different stats your options to tackle certain tasks are unlocked. An intricate system of perks modifies the way you play. Fight, run, jump, climb, sneak, eavesdrop, learn, steal, charm or deduce your way out of any situation. Of course at the very beginning your stats are abysmal, so not all is possible at hand. 

Currently the demo presents you with a set scenario in which you can solve the main puzzles in different ways. Couple of NPCs, a handful of enemies, items to pick, combine and use, unfair pits to jump and couple puzzles to solve, all with a tint of light humour. With consecutive clears you earn extra stat points to distribute, so you can unlock the full potential of our hero. More than a handful of endings are present.

Game is being developed for a quite some time and will be updated with new areas to explore and NPCs to interact as well as introduce you to branching paths in the story. I don't want to spoil anything but endings will not be just differently tinted.

Classic control scheme:

• Z to interract, talk, pick up things, use items from your inventory
  
• X to attack and cancel your selections
• C to jump
• Down to Sneak, climb down ladders and stairs
• Up to enter doors, climp up ladders and stairs
• Left/Right to move
• I to check unlocked achievements

I hope you'll enjoy our small little venture!

Bugs: yes