An open-world voxel action RPG
Pick frogfolk, feline, human or elf, choose a class and leave town. The slimes by the road are easy. The goblin camp over the hill is a real fight, and every region past it is harder, with better loot. Play alone or with up to seven friends.
You start in a town square with your class's weapon, a glider and a lantern.
Warrior, ranger, rogue or mage, and each one handles the same goblin its own way. The warrior lassos it and drags it in. The ranger backs off and leaves a snare where it'll step. Playing a rogue, you slip behind it or vanish mid-fight. The mage? An ice wall, then up it. Whatever you pick, watch the wind-up. Roll at the last moment and your next hit is a sure crit.
Sometimes it's just a better sword. Legendaries go further: they carry powers, like an aimed shot that bounces to two more targets, or a hit that finishes off a creature you've left nearly dead. Levels come from fights and quests, and a region that sent you running at level 5 feels different at 15.
Every region is on your map from the first minute, shaded by how much trouble it'll give you. Near town it's slimes and boars. A few kilometres out there are trolls in caves and goblin warchiefs with a war camp around them. Nothing stops you from going early. You'll find out soon enough whether you should have.
Someone in every town needs a hand: a hunt, a camp cleared out, a traveller walked to the next village. Ask around and you'll hear about a lair or some old ruins, and which way they are. Get back after dark and the shops are shut, but the tavern stays open late and rents rooms.
Every town has a monster camp or two within walking distance. Farther out, some regions have an abandoned mine, two or three floors of kobolds, falling rocks and locked doors to pick. The Ogre Foreman waits behind a locked gate, and the key is somewhere in the mine. Bring a light. It's pitch black down there, and the nights up top are no better.
You start with a glider, so any cliff you climb is also a way down. A river is a swim, or a canoe ride. A sailboat takes a few friends across the lake, as fast as the wind allows.
At the forge you pump the bellows until the metal glows the right colour, hammer it in a steady rhythm, then quench it. The better you work, the better the piece, and with practice that means legendaries. The good ore sits deep, in regions that fight back. Alchemy and cooking are experiments: hit on a new combination and you get to name it.
You can play solo, but honestly, I made Dione Project to be played with friends. The warrior drags the goblin in, the mage walls off its friends and the ranger picks off the rest from the ridge. Everyone who helped gets their own drop, so nobody argues over loot. And if you go down, a friend has twenty seconds to get you back up.
I'm Gustavo, a developer in Brazil, and I post here whenever something lands.
