DreadXP and developer Pretty Hellplace launched a brand new dev diary for the early entry RPG, Dread Delusion (opens in new tab), on January 13. The video covers new quests, characters, places, and fight tweaks, and joins a bunch of high quality of life and content material additions which have graced the sport since its preliminary June 2022 launch.
I used to be hooked even at that first glimpse of the sport. Dread Delusion calls to thoughts the Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind in that it is a first individual, atmospheric, exploration-forward RPG in a bizarre world—there are loads of mushrooms, large and small, in each fantasy settings, however Dread Delusion’s fiction actually stands aside. You discover a civilization clinging to the asteroids round a “Neuron Star,” remnants of a planet-side society pushed to the skies by some nice calamity.
Pointy-hatted wizards sail between these islands on magically-sealed airships, an atheistic inquisition hunts for the final gods, and a neighborhood of flesh-eating zombies has gone vegetarian because of the invention of synthetic human meat. It is nice stuff, and Dread Delusion’s quests excel at feeling like little sci-fi quick tales the way in which the very best Witcher or Elder Scrolls missions do. There’s treasured little fetching or grinding, however all the time a twist.
Dread Delusion’s newest replace lastly builds out its foremost quest, including a distinctly Malenia-esque valkyrie to search out on the earth, in addition to a ruined city taken over by bandits. Pretty Hellplace and co. have additional improved the sport’s fight and made the fatigue system extra beneficiant, addressing two of my largest complaints when first making an attempt out the sport (opens in new tab).
Earlier, in 2022, the crew launched a faction popularity system a la Fallout: New Vegas, permitting you to select your pals amongst Dread Delusion’s assortment of students, inquisitors, atheists, and pagans. There’s additionally now a participant residence by itself floating island, one you’ll be able to construct out and refurbish, and there appear to be secrets and techniques and historical past to uncover there like that nice haunted mansion within the Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Dread Delusion can also be verified on Steam Deck now, which can probably be my go-to approach to play from right here on out. It is like our personal model of the Oblivion PSP port (opens in new tab) they received over within the Good Timeline.
Actually, it is only a problem holding myself from leaping again in—I’ve sunk nearly 20 hours into enjoying and replaying this single-player RPG, and I would wish to be absolutely contemporary and able to deal with its 1.0 launch, every time that comes. Dread Delusion is $20 on Steam (opens in new tab), or you’ll be able to wishlist it to assist and observe growth.
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