Final yr 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 individual military of custom-made mutant monsters.” That remaster, which is named Geneforge 2 – Infestation, might be out on March 27.
As Andy Chalk mentioned when the Kickstarter made its aim, “Spiderweb makes a really specific 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 stuffed with different factions to cope with, none of them purely good or dangerous.
The remaster will embrace “new areas, quests, characters, dialogue, an overhauled interface and programs, and a brand new never-before-seen endgame monster brewed from the followers’ imaginations.”
Spiderweb’s founder, Jeff Vogel, mentioned, “Geneforge 2 was considered one of our greatest successes in our 30 years on this enterprise. It has concepts and paths and participant choices which might be nonetheless recent and distinctive twenty years after its launch. We have cherished 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 might be playable throughout Steam Subsequent Fest from February 5 to February 12. Here is the Steam web page.