When you first fire up the game, you’ll have to choose the difficulty and create your character and the customization options are pretty limited. The game is played from the isometric perspective and you can zoom in and out and turn the camera with the arrow keys to see around corners. You can run which does drain stamina, casting spells drains mana, and you can assign things like potions, fish, and spells to hotkeys. You can move around, interact with things, and cast spells by clicking things on the screen which should not be a new concept to veterans of the genre. I didn’t play through the game multiple times but from what I understand, if you keep passing this item down, it becomes more powerful so that’s pretty neat. Descendants will receive different perks and bonuses and an item handed down from his or her ancestor. After completing the main quest, you have the option to keep descending or retire your character in favor of playing as a new character which will be a descendant of the first one. In fact, you can find ultra rare items which sell for a ton of gold and if you take the time to fish for some of these items, you can end up with more gold than you know what to do with. There’s a spot to fish in Grove and fish are a good source of gold when you first start playing. The first thing I would suggest any new player buy is a fishing rod. You can decide to keep the quest items which means you have to cancel the quest and doing that means you forfeit the reward which is fame, experience, items, and/or gold which is the game’s form of currency. You’re either killing specific monsters or retrieving items. Once you complete a quest, you can acquire another and all quests feel the same. You can only have three active quests at a time which I found to be an odd limit. The quests, dungeon levels, loot, and monsters are randomized. They’re either merchants or quest-givers.
There are numerous NPC’s to interact with and each one does serve a purpose. In this case, that safe location is the town of Grove. Like many games in the genre, you start out in a safe location where you can interact with NPC’s and equip yourself before heading into the dungeon. You have to battle your way through about fifty levels of a dungeon to defeat a powerful monster. After creating your character, the game opens with a narration and text accompanied by some images that give some backstory and explain your character’s purpose. In fact, I forgot what my main quest was only after a couple hours of playing. There is some kind of story here but it’s not very interesting.
#TOWN IN FATE WILDTANGENT MODS#
I found a few mods from searching through the game’s Steam Discussion forum but I get the feeling much of the modding community for this game and possibly the whole series has moved on. I’ve read there is an active modding community, although I have yet to find a treasure trove of fan-made content. Surprisingly, this is a single-player only game and it does support mods.
#TOWN IN FATE WILDTANGENT PC#
Developed and published by WildTagent, Fate was released for PC in May, 2005. Well I finally said “fuck it” and just bought them. If they ever did go on sale, I missed it. Fate and its sequels or standalone expansions can be purchased on Steam for pretty cheap nowadays and I’ve noticed they never seem to go on sale which is why I haven’t played any of them until now. I love the Torchlight games and I’ve been wanting to play Fate for a while. They’re both action RPG’s, the art styles are similar, and both were designed by Travis Baldree. Fate is a game I discovered long after it came out and I heard it was the precursor to Torchlight.
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