Hello, and greetings from Eastern Europe, my name is ColdBeerHD and today I collected
all the best upcoming action RPG hack n’slash games.
Many of them are in early access by now, so if you’re feeling rich and generous you’ll
be able to try them right now, although I recommend never paying real money for a game
that’s not fully released.
I will talk more about that later, let’s roll.
Last Epoch
Game is set for a full release only in April of a year 2020, but early access is already
available.
Last Epoch is an action RPG game developed by independent studio Eleventh Hour Games.
Game was produced for PC and its creation was possible thanks to a successful crowdfunding
campaign on Kickstarter.
Here you can choose one of the five basic character classes; Rogue, Mage, Sentinel,
Acolyte and Primalist.
Every basic class can chose from the three master classes.
In example an Acolyte can become Lich, Warlock or Necromancer and Sentinel can become Forge
Guard, Void Knight or Paladin.
So, fifteen different classes awaits you.
But I would suggest them to add more.
In example Eastern European Witcher with three mastery classes: Potato salad wizard, Druid
of Marinated herring and of course Vodka bender.
I’ve put a lot of effort by drawing this concept art, so I have a high hopes that developers
will consider adding these to their game.
Cheapest way to play and later get finished game is to buy it for 30 euros.
I don’t know, it seems a lot for a game in beta version, especially after reading
the comments stating that game feels far from finished, but if the Last Epoch lives up to
its expectations, then for a full game this price is really OK.
Lost Ark
For three years game have been developed in secret by Tripod Studios and its team of 150
employees, to be released exclusively on the Korean market.
Lost Ark runs on Unreal Engine 3 and features extremely spectacular artwork whose quality
is far superior to what we’ve been used to see in classic hack n'slash games.
The problem is, as I mentioned before, game is available only in Korea and only in Korean.
I should probably say that it’s a South Korea I’m talking about, the weak one, that
one without nuclear weapons and labor camps.
So instead of enriching uranium they spend their creativity in other places.
Sadly there are no news when the English version will come out, only the talks that it will
happen sooner or later.
Better news are for those who can read and understand Russian, because for some reason
Koreans decided to make first foreign release in Russia.
You can sign up for the beta already.
Sadly last time I have spoken Russian was some 15 years ago, and by now I’m too rusty
to play anything in that language.
In any way, when the official announcement of the game’s english version will be released,
I will definitely share this information with you as quickly as I can.
And I should mention that there is unofficial english language mod, but it’s considered
malware by the developers, so if after spending hundreds of hours on your shiny new character
you’ll get banned, you can blame only yourself, so I suggest to wait, there is plenty of other
games to play right now.
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
Wolcen is really good looking game.
It’s also really good game.
At least it could be one if developers finished it one day.
Remember when I said something about never buying games that are in early access?
Along with Exanima, other infamous RPG that possibly will never leave early access stage,
Wolcen’s early access started in 2016 and it’s still in there.
So people started to wonder...
I have a bad feeling about this.
Something isn’t right.
This can’t be good.
And it probably isn’t so a shitstorm of negative comments was unleashed on Steam.
It’s really rare to see “Mostly negative” comments on any game, so it’s probably well
deserved.
But anyway, let’s be positive and hope that Wolcen will be finished.
Someday.
Maybe in a year 2028, along with Diablo 4.
Some sources, like website gamepressure.com even say that Wolcen will be released in 2019.
Maybe they know something we don’t, but I have my doubts.
In a name of truth I should say that developers often update their early access game with
minor things, tweaks of a one thing or another, but it’s not the same as a full release.
But anyway, game looks and plays great.
I will definitely be one of the first ones who will buy the full version, because game
looks original, you fight really cool looking monsters, it has great skill tree, battle
system and gorgeous graphics.
All the ingredients for amazing šaltibarščiai is here, so let’s hope that great chefs
from the Wolcen studio will not turn us down.
Pagan Online
Here you walk with a help of a keyboard, by using WASD keys, and that might be a problem
for hardened action RPG fans, but don’t be quick to judge, this system actually works
great.
Game is in Early Access and by now it seems that more than a half of the game is in place.
Though do not expect anything like fully polished end-game.
Leveling experience is here, but the end game is not.
Actually let’s compare early access with... vodka.
What did you expected?
Would you ever buy vodka which has no alcohol?
Or with a slight brownish color?
Or the one that smells funny?
Or vodka in plastic bag?
Well, according to early access this vodka is still vodka.
It’s drinkable and maybe later it will become the greatest vodka you have ever tasted and
you could drink it as much as you want without any health problems and without hangover either.
Yeah, someday, maybe, maybe not, but now you have to pay the same price for brownish colored
funny smelling liquid in a plastic bag.
That’s what early access is my friends.
Do not confuse it with support on Kickstarter, where you are giving money with hopes to get
a great game someday.
Finished game.
So Pagan Online is a bit different from other Early Access games: here you will find tons
of missions, a bit of campaign and lots of builds to explore.
Some say that even now Pagan Online can offer about 100 hours of playtime.
The downside is that game is always online.
For me it doesn’t even matter, because I’m online wherever I go, we have great internet
in Lithuania, but in other countries it can be a problem.
You know what’s great in this game?
No loot boxes, no microtransactions.
Everything is obtainable by playing the game.
If you’re tired from Grim Dawn, Path of Exile, Diablo 3, you’ll have a great game
here to wait for.
Torchlight Frontiers
At last something that’s not in the early access.
Also, it seems that Frontiers will be not available in Steam.
At least at the very beginning.
I have heard about Frontiers before, but only when I started to make this video I realised
that this is not a simple hack n’slash RPG like Torchlight 1 and 2, but instead of a
single player or co-op experience, Torchlight Frontiers is a persistent shared world where
hundreds and thousands of players can meet, play, hunt for gear, level their characters,
drink vodka, eat delicious potato salad, and of course together they can do amazing raping
and pillaging.
So basically it’s an Torchlight 3 and at the same time it’s an MMO.
I can already feel the sadness of my viewers, who like me, enjoy playing alone, and not
with the friends.
Basically because we have no friends.
But anyway, if you’re OK with the MMO fact, then I must inform you that the game will
be free.
And another thing - you can sign up for alfa test right now, and hope to get the key.
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy
While the first part of the game, named Martyr wasn’t a success story, in metacritic.com
game has user score of 6.6, but this was probably enough to be a profitable game, so the second
part is in development right now.
This is a stand alone expansion, you don’t have to have previous part to play it, but
if you have the game, your old character will be transferred from the Martyr to the Prophecy.
So let’s talk about new things: Here you will get a new class, a Tech-Adept
Inquisitor who can summon and enhance units in battles.
Also new campaign, new enemy races, new settings, redesigned loot system, co-op campaign mode,
much faster Action RPG-focused gameplay and new items.
I hope for a vodka bottle sniper rifle to be included.
Yes, this my concept art.
Eitr
Eitr is an action RPG built around exceptional combat and interesting challenges set within
mythological Norse world.
When I’ve heard the music and saw the dark setting of this game I was immediately impressed.
Like farts can take your breath away, music of Eitr totally took my hearing.In a good
sense, of course.
Looks like this pixel art game is truly an art - just look at those colors and lighting.
Game is dark and gloomy and this is one of the best things about any game nowadays, when
games like colorful Fortnite dictates the fashion of other games and everyone tries
to be as colorful as possible.
Today if your’e not unicorns and rainbows it’s already a good thing.
Eitr looks really promising, I can’t wait for it.
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