Daemonica

Eerily Evocative Adventure/RPG Hybrid

In Daemonica, you take the role of Nicholas Fayrepoint, a sort of demon hunter-cum-private eye in a small town in a fantasy world that's subject to a curse. Your job, naturally, is to figure out what's going wrong, and set things right.

The game is in essence built as 3D RPG, with a simple point-and-click combat system, inventory, character advancement, and the like; but the gameplay is much more like a classic graphic adventure, with puzzles to be solved and characters from whom you must extract information. This is something of a happy hybrid, more free-form than a classic click-and-combine adventure but with much of the same feel--but those looking for the combat intensity of a Diablo are better off looking elsewhere.

With a dark, moody palette, good writing, and a story with innumerable twists, Daemonica will appeal most to those who like a degree of horror with their puzzle-solving.

The Developer Says

Daemonica is an intriguing 3D interactive mystery that offers everything that adventure genre fans appreciate - immersive storyline with unexpected twists, extensive dialogues with believable characters, puzzles, both mandatory and optional quests. Action fights are smoothly integrated into the gameplay. Set in the medieval England it tells a story of Nicholas Farepoynt, an "investigator" who can talk to the Dead. A story of blood, passion and sacrifice.

Throughout the game the player will explore the gloomy surroundings of the slowly dying city of Cavorn, make sacrifices, talk to both living and dead characters, fight and punish those who deserve it, gather information, collect herbs and make potions to enhance his senses and slowly discover what role he plays in all of this. As he strives to solve the murder of a young girl, more dead appear and the town starts to slowly slip into insanity. A grim, long-forgotten secret, something that should never see the light of day again slowly awakes...

Daemonica features:

• engaging and immersive storyline
  
• detailed and realistic 3D environments
  
• enhanced enviromental effects
  
• intriguing characters with unique personalities
  
• easy to handle yet thrilling action fights
  
• potion-making
  
• raising of the Dead
  
• optional quests
  
• various endings

Reviews

"By the time your half way through you will be hard drawn to put your mouse away. Daemonica has enough content to keep you wanting more...80%"
   - Game Hacking

"Those of you who are big adventure gamers should definitely keep an eye out for this one... 79%"
   - Game Zone

"Daemonica is best described as an interactive gothic murder mystery. Fans of point and click adventure games or players looking for a more relaxing game with an engaging story would do well to check it out.... 82%"
   - Game Vortex

"Daemonica weaves a very engaging story with deep character development and added features that many RPG games lack."
   - Games First