There are some pretty strong Valheim vibes at the beginning of the trailer for Enshrouded, a new survival action RPG for 1-16 players coming to Steam early access later this year. An adventurer runs around in the woods wearing a pair of burlap pants, hunts with a wooden bow, chops down a tree, and cooks some meat over a campfire as night falls. Feels like a solid, if pretty traditional, opener for a survival game.
But things progress quickly, as we see fully armored characters using magic staves, throwable explosives, and swords and shields as they battle a bunch of creepy monsters including some intimidating, towering boss types. My attention gets fully grabbed when it moves on to fun traversal options, like a grappling hook used to swing through some ruins and a leathery wingsuit to glide through the fog. Eventually we see a timelapse of a massive town being built on a mountaintop.
Yep. I'm definitely interested. There's a lot going in this game, and most of it looks pretty darn cool.
In the words of Keen Games' co-founder Antony Christoulakis, Enshrouded is «Valheim meets Zelda.» There's a big open world to explore, some light survival systems—food takes a page from Valheim, where eating buffs you but you'll never starve to death—and enemies to battle and loot. But unlike Valheim, Enshrouded isn't a procedurally generated world that changes each time you start a new game. The realm of Embervale is a crafted world like you'd find in a game like Breath of the Wild or Skyrim.
As for the story, and why the character in the trailer climbs out of a big clay pot at the beginning: the world of Enshrouded has been consumed by a deadly fog that's escaped from deep underground, and you've been awakened to go out there and fight
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