FromSoftware fanatics are making brand new RPGs with the Dark Souls dev's 25-year-old game-making tools

Lunacid - Tears Of The Moon keeps the King's Field tone alive

Fans of damp tunnels and chatty skeletons whitethorn person enjoyed Lunacid, a first-person dungeon crawler which near aboriginal entree successful October 2023. Sin called it “lo-fi first-person dungeon skulking done right” and suggested that it “could good gain a spot successful immoderate champion of the twelvemonth lists”. (It didn’t look connected ours, but successful fairness, that was the twelvemonth Baldur's Gate 3 devoured everybody’s brain.)

Lunacid takes copious inspiration from Dark Souls developer FromSoftware’s aged Shadow Tower and King’s Field games for PS1. Now, creators KIRA LLC are going adjacent further with Lunacid: Tears Of The Moon - a caller RPG made utilizing FromSoftware’s past Sword Of Moonlight: King’s Field crippled instauration tools from 2000, which came with hundreds of representation parts, objects and characters positive scripting features and the quality to insert AVI movies and adjacent a credits reel.

Officially released lone successful Japan, Sword Of Moonlight granted buyers unlimited usage of the King's Field intelligence property, including the close to merchandise and merchantability their ain games. While hardly the Unity Engine of its day, it fostered a softly thriving fangame country with projects specified arsenic Diadem Of Maunstraut uncovering an assemblage overseas.

Even if you don’t jive with aged fangames, Lunacid - Tears of the Moon has charm. Like galore a FromSoftwork, it takes spot successful a fallen kingdom and sees you journeying underground to soothe/defeat a restless cosmic being. Not being acquainted with Sword Of Moonlight, I can’t accidental however overmuch it tests the capabilities of FromSoftware’s 25-year-old toolset, but I bask the lurid smog of the dungeons and the lumbering choreography of the first-person combat.

Tears Of The Moon volition merchandise connected 12th April 2025 - here's the Steam page. While speechmaking up connected Sword Of Moonlight, I besides stumbled connected this King’s Field 2 preservation project, which makes usage of the aforesaid tools. It seems similar a noble enterprise, though sadly the creator has tally into difficulties pursuing a schizophrenia diagnosis. If you’re checking retired Tears Of The Moon, possibly amusement this immoderate love, too.

Thanks to SeekerX for spotting this one.