Both of these can also be charged up for greater damage by holding the casting button down. Regardless of the element you’ve got equipped – we saw fire, ice, and corruption (a nifty take on damage over time that lets you “infect” enemies with other spell effects, like fire or ice) – you’ve got two basic ranged attacks: a standard “bolt”-style casting (think: fireballs) and an area-effect attack that damages all enemies in the targeted area. Lichdom will be PC-only to start, but Xaviant is looking into opportunities on other platforms (there’s already gamepad support in the Early Access release).įirst-person spell-slinger. The heart of Lichdom is its spell system, which breaks up your chosen hero’s casting across different elemental categories.
The long-term goal is to deliver the finished product as a roughly 30-hour adventure spread across multiple linear levels, with a New Game+ mode that offers more freedom to play around with endgame content. Xaviant hired separate writers to craft the dialogue for each character – the one you don’t choose appears in the game as a sort of NPC guide – even going as far as getting male and female scribes for each part, to better capture each character’s voice.Įarly access. It’s unusual to see a story-driven game like this one go the Steam Early Access route (it’s available right now, in fact), but Xaviant sees benefits in exposing Lichdom‘s gameplay systems and user interface to players early.
The male Battlemage, voiced by Troy Baker (Joel from The Last of Us) is out to avenge the death of his wife, while the female Battlemage, voiced by prolific voice actor Jennifer Hale (FemShep in the Mass Effect series), is on a quest to save her kidnapped sister. You’ll start out – in the final game, not the current Early Access build – by choosing your sorcerer’s gender. While the gameplay and general course of the plot remain largely the same regardless of which choice you make, each character’s motivations differ. Xaviant is discussing a few high-level concepts, but none of the actual plot specifics. Question marks. We know a lot about the structure of Lichdom‘s gameplay systems (more on that below), but the story and the world built around it remains a mystery.
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