Former Destiny and Final Fantasy devs reveal soul-stealing tactics RPG Never's End

Possess the townsfolk and sculpt the terrain

If you recovered the feudal festival of backstabbing that was Final Fantasy Tactics distressingly upbeat and wholesome, possibly you'll beryllium much impressed by Never's End, a caller crook and grid-based RPG from Destiny's erstwhile pb sandbox gameplay decorator Ryan Jucket with quality designs from Final Fantasy creator Masayoshi Nishimura.

It takes spot successful a satellite swamped by creeping undead darkness, and casts you arsenic a warrior tone wrought of deathless silver. Taking complaint of the past surviving village, you volition person and pain distant the precise souls of townsfolk successful bid to alteration them into battlefield units. Careful, though, due to the fact that the much villagers you drawback successful your mirrors and trim to surviving weapons, the stronger the Never becomes.

If that were each determination were to Never's End, I mightiness person fixed it a miss. The different root of intrigue present is that battles enactment a large accent connected utilizing spells to modify the terrain and atmospheric conditions. "Temperature, weather, wind, h2o level, and adjacent the density of the world beneath your feet tin each beryllium manipulated to summation the vantage successful combat," observes the Steam page. "Drain rivers adust oregon flood the battlefield. Create rainfall and fog to hamper your enemies, oregon mighty winds to hurl them implicit cliffs. Freeze your foes oregon acceptable them aflame. Reshape world to summation the precocious ground, oregon melt it into deadly lava."

Sounds similar a jolly time. The past tactical RPG I played that meddled with the aerial and ungraded this extravagantly was Tenderfoot Tactics, and I've been hankering for a akin feat of geomancy. I'm besides rather sold connected the creation style, which suggests a handsome Dreamcast remake of a PS1 game.

Going by the motorboat description, the run volition springiness you the prime of erstwhile to equine an battle connected the bosom of the Never, which pumps retired caller boglins astatine regular intervals. There's an open-ended overworld afloat of jungles, deserts and tundra wherever you'll spell connected hunting missions and prime done the treasures of a forgotten aureate age. Very Destiny-ish, indeed.

"Cleanse corrupted settlements, awaken long-dormant temples, unearth mislaid technology, and past reap the rewards arsenic civilization rebuilds successful your wake," comments the Steam page. The rebuilding taxable extends to the founding of caller towns, each a root of (willing?) husks for your zombo warfare effort.

Are you the existent villain here? Well, enactment it this way: erstwhile you're felled successful combat, you're reborn astatine HQ arsenic a rapidly congealing excavation of liquid silver. The past clip I saw idiosyncratic bash that it was the T-1000 from Terminator 2, and helium did not onslaught maine arsenic promising colony absorption material. If you bask the foulness of each this but can't abide grid-based battlers, possibly cheque retired Against The Storm.