Final 12 months a Kickstarter for a remastered model of Spiderweb Software program’s CRPG Geneforge 2 handed its humble $30,000 aim 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 likely be out on March 27.
As Andy Chalk stated when the Kickstarter made its aim, “Spiderweb makes a really explicit sort of RPG: Mild on eye sweet (very gentle) and different results, however very deep, versatile, and open-ended.” The Geneforge Saga, a sequence 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 take care of, none of them purely good or unhealthy.
The remaster will embody “new areas, quests, characters, dialogue, an overhauled interface and techniques, and a brand new never-before-seen endgame monster brewed from the followers’ imaginations.”
Spiderweb’s founder, Jeff Vogel, stated, “Geneforge 2 was certainly one of our greatest successes in our 30 years on this enterprise. It has concepts and paths and participant choices which are nonetheless contemporary and distinctive twenty years after its launch. We have liked engaged on this refreshed, expanded remaster, and we’re super-excited to lastly let folks play it.”
Forward of its March 27 launch, a demo of Geneforge 2 – Infestation will likely be playable throughout Steam Subsequent Fest from February 5 to February 12. Here is the Steam web page.