After announcing their action RPG Darkhaven a few weeks back, Moon Beast Productions have announced that the game’s Kickstarter campaign is now live. In addition, the devteam has also released an “unconventionally unfiltered” demo for Darkhaven that’s currently available on Steam.
According to the press release, the demo is “closer to a pre-alpha than a highly polished, bite-sized teaser,” allowing players to experience the full, unfiltered version of what they are building with Darkhaven. The demo offers several hours of open-ended ARPG gameplay inside a persistent sandbox world. Players can progress the Witch class to level 8, experimenting across three skill trees focused on mobility, positioning, and resource management.
“For us, this is about proving potential… The strange, ambitious, sometimes chaotic ideas that we believe can push the ARPG genre forward”, said Erich Schaefer, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer. “There’s dust on the edges, but there’s also real experimentation, and a strong look at our bold new ideas taking shape. Our goal with this demo is to demonstrate two things at the same time. First, that we’re staying true to the addictive core of classic Diablo-style gameplay – progression, itemization, and build synergies. Second, we want to deliberately break from the pack in how worlds evolve, how replayability works, and how much agency players have over the land itself.”
Created by Diablo series veterans, Darkhaven is set in a procedurally generated, fully dynamic, and persistent world in the aftermath of a great and final collapse of civilization. Ancient empires have fallen, their ruins reclaimed by wilderness, monsters, and predatory supernatural forces. Players are heirs to a legacy of power that is the last hope for this dying world. As eldritch evil worms its way into the world to feed on its remains, it falls to these few to bring the land back from the brink of death.