Final 12 months a Kickstarter for a remastered model of Spiderweb Software program’s CRPG Geneforge 2 handed its humble $30,000 objective and raised $76,777 based mostly on its promise of “Open ended fantasy role-playing enjoyable with your personal military of custom-made mutant monsters.” That remaster, which is known as Geneforge 2 – Infestation, will probably be out on March 27.
As Andy Chalk stated when the Kickstarter made its objective, “Spiderweb makes a really explicit kind of RPG: Gentle on eye sweet (very gentle) and different results, however very deep, versatile, and open-ended.” The Geneforge Saga, a collection of 5 standalone video games, is the proper instance. The sci-fi/fantasy setting is dominated by Shapers, who’re wizards with the godlike energy of making life, although it is filled with different factions to deal with, none of them purely good or unhealthy.
The remaster will embrace “new areas, quests, characters, dialogue, an overhauled interface and methods, and a brand new never-before-seen endgame monster brewed from the followers’ imaginations.”
Spiderweb’s founder, Jeff Vogel, stated, “Geneforge 2 was one in all our largest successes in our 30 years on this enterprise. It has concepts and paths and participant choices which can be nonetheless contemporary and distinctive twenty years after its launch. We have beloved engaged on this refreshed, expanded remaster, and we’re super-excited to lastly let individuals play it.”
Forward of its March 27 launch, a demo of Geneforge 2 – Infestation will probably be playable throughout Steam Subsequent Fest from February 5 to February 12. Here is the Steam web page.
