Upcoming motion RPG Mortal Crux is a sport that all the time appears to have reworked in unusual and surprising methods each time I verify in on it. Case and level: its full 3D in-game aquarium for communing with the fruits of a disquietingly intensive fishing minigame.
This is not even purported to be a fishing RPG—the quickest promote I might make for Mortal Crux is that it appears like Divinity: Unique Sin, however as an motion RPG as an alternative of turn-based. Developer Jesse Walker has a equally whimsical sensibility and eye for element to Larian, with environmental destruction, physics based mostly puzzles, and elemental knock-on results galore spicing up soulslike hack n’ slash fight, and you can expertise all of it in as much as four-player co-op.
However the whole lot’s higher with a fishing minigame, and as we coated again in our PC Gaming Present: Most Wished showcase in November, Mortal Crux can be tying the function right into a full-on fishing-focused questline.
Now it feels like this can all be grounded in a fishing hub within the sport world as properly, a font of fishing quests and a corridor of fame to your legendary catches. As Walker put it on Twitter: “Go there anytime to tackle fishing/assortment quests, study information and lore for every species, and even chill out by watching your prized catches with an immersive viewing mode that capabilities like an actual aquarium.” The place else are you gonna discover fish lore?
Increasing extra on the system, Walker advised me that “the concept is you are wanting by way of a periscope of types, and you can toggle by way of varied depths to completely different classes of fish and the background colours/lighting will change.” Whereas gamers will be capable of catch some actual “monstrosities” and evaluate their stats, Walker additionally pressured that Mortal Crux’s fishing system can be fully non-obligatory.
That is the type of sicko stuff I like to see in an RPG, and I stay as excited to lastly play Mortal Crux as after I first reported on it again in 2022. The RPG nonetheless has no set launch date or demo, however you’ll be able to wishlist it on Steam.