Jul 18, 2013

Turn and face the strange!

Evoland, a console-style RPG that’s a tribute to all console-style RPGs and a trip through almost 30 years of console-style RPG history that just keeps evolving from one console-style RPG to another console-style RPG, is available 60% off today, on GOG.com. That’s only $3.99 for the next 24 hours!

Hi, I’m Joe and I’ll be your guide in this fantastic adventure. You’re the hero and you walk from left to right. That’s it. My job here is done. Oh, wait. You walk left to right or right to left. Scratch that, you can go in four basic directions. But that’s it. That’s the entire game. Oh, wait! You have a dagger. So now you can poke 8-bit monsters with it. What? Make that 16-bit monsters. That’s it. That’s the entire game–you go around poking 3D monsters with your bad-ass sword. Wait? When did this become 3D? And what’s this all about an epic quest? That’s it, I quit. Find another narrator. This game evolves so fast, that I can’t keep up. Upgrades, upgrades everywhere! Everything changes! You’d have to be a gamer to figure this one out.

Evoland is a fantastic concept brought to live with much passion and dedication. This console-style role-playing game starts small and simplistic, and evolves into new complex and appealing forms as you progress. Every upgrade you unlock brings in another time-tested gameplay idea into the picture. What starts off looking like one of your earliest 8-bit memories, progressively becomes a modern game with all the bells and whistles we’ve learned to expect from the RPG genre. This is as much a game as it is a virtual gaming museum trip that’s nostalgic and entertaining! For such a low admission fee, it would be a shame not to take it.

Take a plunge into the history of one of gaming’s most prominent genres in Evoland, for only $3.99 on GOG.com! The offer lasts until Thursday, July 18, at 9:59AM GMT.