Watch out, Dark and Darker: Suddenly there's another dungeon extraction game hitting PC, Project Crawl
It was bound to happen—there's another dungeon crawling PvP extraction game in the works for those of us who prefer to get our competitive kicks with swords and spells rather than guns. Recently revealed Project Crawl is calling itself «an immersive first-person PvPvE dungeon crawler» and is planning an alpha playtest on Steam next week.
«Project Crawl offers a riveting experience, pitting players against one another and the dangerous dungeon environment,» developers Mithril Studio say in today's announcement. «With a variety of characters to choose from, players will explore the mysterious darkness alone or with friends, gather loot, and battle monsters in this quest for victory and survival.»
In a series of community Q&As, Mithril Studio also explains that Project Crawl will feature various races (elves and humans and so on) and classes to choose from, «environmental interaction systems,» and will eventually launch into early access after playtesting. Current party size is three players, though Mithril Studio suggests other game modes and team sizes could possibly be options in the future.
Though its store page doesn't use the word, Project Crawl is definitely an extraction game. «Vanquish fearsome monsters, discover priceless artifacts, claim legendary weapons—but escape this place with stories to tell or lose it all to the abyss,» it says.
If that all sounds a bit familiar, and looks very familiar in the gameplay reveal video up above, then it's probably worth addressing the Dark and Darker in the room. There's already been a quite popular fantasy extraction game this year that quickly became one of the most played demos during a Steam Next Fest event. Dark and Daker has since spent the rest of this year embroiled
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