For those who like tromping round a fantasy world in first-person casting two-handed spells, whacking ogres and goblins with an ornate sword, and fixing enormous mechanical puzzles in mysterious chambers, this is a recreation you may need to keep watch over.
It is referred to as Testomony: The Order of Excessive Human and the trailer offers me fairly a mix of vibes. A little bit of Skyrim, a pinch of Elden Ring, a splash of Darkish Messiah of Would possibly and Magic. (Simply not with the funds hooked up to these huge video games.)
IGN was sort sufficient to submit a brand new trailer, which you’ll see above. There’s not an entire lot of gameplay proven, but it surely gives a pleasant have a look at a number of the fantasy environments, enemies, and a few tattooed, outstretched arms wrapped in leather-based bands making ready to solid some cool-looking spells.
Fortunately there’s fairly a bit extra to take a look at on Testomony’s web page on Steam. As an illustration, one of many gifs on the web page reveals some goblin-lookin’ dudes charging the participant who swats them with a sword, then jabs and stuns the mob with some form of electrical shock impact.
Then they use a form of Pressure-push spell to knock the mob again to a protected distance, earlier than ending them off with an explosive arrow. I just like the mix-and-match strategy to fight the place you’ll be able to mix totally different weapons and spells shortly to neutralize a bunch of attackers, and knocking monsters again offers me these Darkish Messiah of Would possibly and Magic Vibes. Hopefully there are some handy spike partitions in Testomony to impale them on, too.
One other gif on the web page reveals some puzzle fixing, the place a spell solid on a hovering gem causes obsidian chunks to fly collectively to kind a dice, adopted by a room the place levitating blocks are crisscrossing the ground. I am not an enormous fan of first-person platforming, however I do like huge, mysterious chambers that want some cautious puzzle-solving to beat.
Testomony additionally has one thing referred to as “the wheel of consumables” that allows you to craft after which shortly apply enchantments to your weapons, making your arrows deadlier, turning your sword into flames, and different magical results. It is particularly good that you simply needn’t open a list menu display and hunt round an extended listing to shortly supercharge your gear on the fly.
Testomony has been within the works for some time—I discovered a Kickstarter web page for it from manner again in 2019, although it did not safe sufficient funding on the time. When’s it releasing? “Coming quickly” is the one clue, which hopefully doesn’t suggest, like, 2025.
