Third-person 3D Action RPG with Dungeon Crawling and City Building. Revive your enemies once again and make them fight alongside you!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
July Project Update + Whispike Survivors on July 20th
10 months ago
– Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 03:37:15 AM
Hi everyone!
We keep working in the game at a good pace, getting ready for Gamescom. In fact, we've been selected to appear in the Indie Arena Booth line-up video!
It's a bit of a "blink-and-you-miss-it" thing, but at least we appear in it (at 1:26)!
Indie Arena Booth hosts more than 130 games this year, so being among the 30-ish highlighted games is huge for us. We'll be at Gamescom (in Cologne, Germany) from August 22nd to Sunday 27th, so if you're planning to go, don't hesitate to visit our booth and say hi!
Monster Design Contest winner in the game!
As we announced in this update, the winner of the Monster Design Contest was Atterrenti. We recently made the in-game model, here have it!
To make it more in line with the rest of "regular" monsters, we decided to simplify its design a bit and make it more symmetrical, so it looked less like a boss enemy.
Speaking of bosses, remember that if you're a backer you can submit your Boss and Revenant designs in the private area until the end of August in our Discord server! You can have your design appear in the game, like Atterrenti!
Sneak peek of one of the game's cities: Raena
Our environment artist is currently working on one of the game's cities, and we wanted to show how it's going. This is Raena!
If you played the first game and got all the Lost Diaries, this name might ring a bell, of course! It is north of this city where the Necromancer's Crypt is located. Now you'll be able to walk from one place to the other!
We are still working on it (for example, the empty space at right it's supposed to be crop fields), but it's taking shape!
And lastly...
Whispike Survivors releases on July 20th! (August 3rd for Xbox)
We can finally announce Whispike Survivors' release date!
Get ready to play it on your PC, PS4/PS5 and Nintendo Switch on July 20th! Xbox players (Xbox One and Xbox Series) will have to wait two more weeks, until August 3rd (with preorders open on July 27th). Remember that Whispike Survivors is a spin-off game of Sword of the Necromancer which started as an April Fools joke and blends two trendy game genres: horde survivor and farm simulator.
And as a surprise gift, all backers that pledged for Fan Edition and above will receive a Steam key for Whispike Survivors on the release day!
* only a Steam key will be provided, regardless of the platform choice for Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant
The game will have a very low price on all platforms, so if you are interested, please get it on the release day to support us! You can also wishlist on Steam in the meantime.
That's all for today, Kind regards!
Project Update + IAB Selection + Whispike Survivors announcement!
11 months ago
– Wed, May 31, 2023 at 05:02:25 AM
Hi everyone!
Sorry for the radio silence lately, we've been very busy. The project keeps advancing at a steady rhythm despite some minor setbacks.
One of them (small optimization issues) is not allowing us to release a demo for backers during this month as we wanted to do, which is one of the reasons we've been very busy. We want you to have a good first impression, and PC versions are always tricky because of the very different configurations that are possible (it's much easier to develop for a closed platform as consoles), and decided to not hurry and take our time.
We are having an external engineer to help us with these issues, so everything will run fine. You will have to wait a bit longer, sorry!
Leaving aside these "bad" news, let's start with the good ones!
We have been selected for Gamescom's Indie Arena Booth!
In case you don't know, Gamescom is Europe's biggest videogame trade fair, which is held in Cologne, Germany in August. Inside the fair, there is a big section called Indie Arena Booth that reunites and showcases the best indie games from all over the world... and we got selected!
The original Sword of the Necromancer was also selected in 2020, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that year's event was an online one. This time it will be a "real" event!
That means that we will showcase the demo live on the show's floor, that demo being the one that will be available for backers to play at home, so we are also delaying that to kill two birds with one stone.
We will be at Indie Dev Day in Barcelona!
Indie Dev Day is another event that has been growing very fast in the latest years in our own city, Barcelona. As the name implies, the event is focused on Indie Games all from Spain.
This year they are holding the biggest event yet with the help of Devolver Digital. We will also have a booth there, showcasing the demo in September!
New game mechanics
We've been working on puzzle mechanics for the game! The first Sword of the Necromancer had a very simple puzzle (the one and only) in the tutorial to explain how to use the different weapons (a bow, specifically). You can see a reference to that puzzle in Revenant's Kickstarter trailer (the moment Kara activates a platform shooting an arrow).
Many people told us that they'd love if the game had more of these puzzles, so for this sequel we have doubled down and introduced puzzle mechanics, like switches, dragging boxes, pressure plates, etc. You can see an example here (and also, you can take a look at our playground level where we test things):
Warning! Heavy GIF
New shaders and effects
As part of the optimization process, we've been making changes on some of the post-processing effects, shaders and VFX of the game. While we were at it, we use this occasion to make things look a bit prettier!
Backer Designed Monsters and Revenants
We have received some designs for Monsters and Revenants from Backers in our Discord Server. As we didn't set a deadline yet (because we weren't sure what it would be), it seems things have slowed down and the submissions stopped shortly after we opened the channels.
We have now decided a deadline of August 31st, so we have enough time to make the monsters and backers have enough time to present their ideas. After that, we will have a voting period of a week and we will announce the selected ones. If you are a backer and have an idea for a monster or a Revenant, don't forget to post in the respective channels before the deadline!
For backers who have a Monster, Boss or Revenant design in their pledge, we will contact you during June, keep an eye on your mail!
And last but not least...
Whispike Survivors announcement!
On April 1st we posted an April Fools joke on Twitter about us ditching Revenant and working on a Vampire Survivors clone (you can see more details in this update if you are a backer). We have been working from time to time on this game, and it's finally ready!
We are now working on the console ports to release it on all platforms at once, but we have already made the Steam page public and you can wishlist the game!
And on the occasion of this announcement, here you have the game's trailer showing the gameplay!
Whispike Survivors blends two trendy game genres: horde survivor and farm simulator. Cultivate the strongest monster in this horde survivor farming game! Fight against waves of creatures to beef up your Whispike and use its seeds to create even stronger hybrids!
We will release the game for PC and consoles very soon (for a very cheap price!), and hopefully its earnings help us (even if it's just a bit) with Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant's development.
This ended being a long update! We will try to update more often. Again, sorry for the wait.
Thank you very much for your support, and kind regards!
Backerkit store available!
about 1 year ago
– Sun, Apr 09, 2023 at 03:35:51 AM
Did you miss the crowdfunding campaign? Don't worry!
With the Backerkit store, you can still preorder the game and support its development. Prices of the items are the same as the Kickstarter add-ons (so the campaign backers still get a better deal) but you can still get exclusive campaign items!
