You’ve got plenty to do before reaching your doom, though, for as modern as the game looks, the majority of the gameplay is rooted in the oldest RPG tropes going back to tabletop. The perpetrator is the appropriately named Dark Knight - a celestial horse that peppers you with a flurry of devastating magic spears when you fight him, usually killing you.

The whole thing takes place across only five days or ‘turns’, the end of the fifth day marking the inevitable apocalypse that will ravish the sunny beaches of Sunset Island in firey devastation. This is a dating sim with RPG elements, but unlike most that try to accomplish either of these styles, the gameplay is much faster.Īnd that’s a good thing, as it’s this premise that distinguishes it from its contemporaries. Die hard, party harder | Lemonade Flashbang vis Indie Game Culture Five Days to Midnightĭoomsday Paradise started as a Kickstarter project launched back in November of last year. I can’t say I’ve ever played a dating sim for longer than five minutes, nor have I been much interested in turn-based combat (Baldur’s Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 7 aside) yet there I was, carefully pondering over my next response so that a green demon girl with an obsession with Halloween wouldn’t friendzone me. Browse through Steam, and you’ll find a myriad of games splicing together mechanics and art styles from as many as three or four different genres, some genuinely hitting upon something new, others fading into obscurity amidst a sea of other great but poorly executed ideas.ĭoomsday Paradise is yet another hopeful attempt at this lofty goal on PC. It’s not often games slot perfectly into their predefined genres anymore - especially in the indie scene. The protagonist characters seem like an afterthought.Lack of voice acting diminishes the dialogue.Combat jars with the RPG elements and feels a little generic.The single-player novelty wears off after one or two runs.Indies With Great Accessibility Features.

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