Elder Lich
A downloadable game for Windows
Current Version: 0.0.2
STORY
Elder Lich is set in a world almost identical to 19th century Earth, except there's magic, undead, Germany is split between a South German Federation, a North German Federation and, between them, a country barely bigger than a city-state, Schadel.
You start your journey with no memories, awakened in a cave. Luckily for you that cave was located in Schadel, one of two countries where the undead have equal rights to the living.
What's your past? What were you doing in that cave? Why is this place so similar to our Earth? It's up to you to find out.
GAMEPLAY
There's something the "Action System" in Elder Lich. Actions can be spells, emotes etc. You can assign them to action sets, with 4 action slots each (you can have as many action sets as you want, though).
In dialogue you sometimes get an option that makes you do a roll. Depending weather you succeed in your roll, the dialogue might proceed differently and you might get XP.
Most NPCs have schedules that they follow daily (you must be careful if you are shopping late, the shopkeeper might leave the store and lock you inside when it's closing time).
It has a leveling system, combat (3 weapon types: Melee, Gun and Throwable), trade, autosave, quicksave.
You start the game as skeleton. However, there is a character creator for a "fleshed" character, in the current version it's only accessible via console command ("opencharactercreator", open console with numpad9). In a future version, you will be able to become a fleshed character without cheats.
Also the weather can vary, from clear sky to very cloudy (In the cloudiest weather there is rain), there's a moon cycle and the position of the sun changes through the year. These don't affect gameplay, but they look cool, so I thought I should mention them.
CONTROLS
(The controls can be altered through the settings menu)
Action | Keyboard/Mouse | Controller |
Move Left | A | Left Joystick - Left |
Move Right | D | Left Joystick - Right |
Move Foward | W | Left Joystick - Up |
Move Backward | S | Left Joystick - Down |
Jump | Space | Sony X, Xbox A |
Interact | E | Sony Square, Xbox X |
Pull | G | Sony Circle, Xbox B |
Run | Shift | Left Stick, Sony L3 Xbox L/LS (I recommend enabling "toggle run" in the settings menu if playing with controller) |
Main | Left-Click | Right Trigger |
Secondary | Right-Click | Left Trigger |
Reload | R | Sony Triangle, Xbox Y |
Action 1/Up | 1 | D-Pad Up |
Action 2/Right | 2 | D-Pad Right |
Action 3/Down | 3 | D-Pad Down |
Action 4/Left | 4 | D-Pad Left |
Previous Action Set | ` in American Keyboard ' In Brazilian Keyboard (It's the key to the left of 1) | Left Shoulder, Sony L1, Xbox LB |
Next Action Set | 5 | Right Shoulder, Sony R1, Xbox RB |
Character Screen | Tab | Back, Sony Select, Xbox Back |
Map | M | |
Toggle Third Person | F | Right Stick, Sony R3, Xbox R/RS |
Toggle Hud | F1 | |
Screenshot | F2 | |
Quicksave | F5 | |
Quickload | F9 |
CHEATS
If you want to try features that can't be accessed through normal play yet or just want to goof around, there is a cheat menu I made for debugging the game.
There's two ways to access it:
-Pressing numpad9 will open the console. From the console you can press the button that says cheat menu. The console will be in front of the cheat menu, so you will have to close it to use the cheat menu.
-With the main menu open in-game you press the run button, while holding the Character Screen button and the move foward button.
This is an early version of the game and thus likely to have bugs and unfinished content.
The save system was designed in a way so saves from the current version are very likely to still work in future versions of the game.
Ko-fi | Bluesky
Updated | 1 day ago |
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Author | RafaelaOverflow |
Genre | Role Playing |
Made with | Godot |
Tags | 3D, Action RPG, Character Customization, Godot, Singleplayer, Story Rich |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English, Portuguese (Brazil) |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepad (any) |
Accessibility | Configurable controls |
Links | Ko-fi |
Install instructions
1. Download the ZIP
2. Extract the ZIP wherever you want.
3. To run the game, run the executable named "ElderLich.exe"
After you run the game for the first time, you will be able to find the screenshot folder and save folder at: "AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Elder Lich"
Development log
- 0.0.2 "The Newspaper Update" Changelog34 days ago
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