Spades Felligan
09-21-2008, 09:56 AM
Heard of this before? It was posted here a few years back by Goty. It's rather fun, so I'll post it again.
UrW is a graphical rouge-like set in the forests of Finland during the Iron-age. Basically, you play as a dude who starts off in the middle of the wilderness (different scenarios start you off in different circumstances), and you have to find your own way to survive the environment, seasons, and prosper.
It's totally open ended, you can be a hunter, farmer, trader, pretty much anything. The game uses a skill system similar to UO, skills go up when you use them. The crafting system is great, you can gather resources and build anything from a simple knife to a cottage.
The game is pretty hardcore, it's perma-death. You can only save when you quit the game, and if you die, it's game-over. It's pretty fun that way because you have to live with your mistakes, eat a poison mushroom and try to survive the food poisoning rather than just reloading a saved game. (I failed, a bear found me and ate me when I was laying on the ground weak and vomiting)
There's a lot of Finnish mythology and lore, no direct magic, but there are woodland spirits who will affect the outcome of your luck depending if your actions please or anger them.
In my first game, I was a hunter, did pretty well, too. I made my own traps and javelins. I later found a group of traders in the forest stealing my traps, so I went predator on them. I ran around sneaking in the bushes picking them off one-by-one with my javelins. Then I skinned their corpses, made clothes out of their skin, and ate the remains. Life was good till I was exploring a cave, fell into a hole, couldn't get out, and starved to death before a bob-cat finished me. :(
Here's a link to the site:
http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw.html
UrW is a graphical rouge-like set in the forests of Finland during the Iron-age. Basically, you play as a dude who starts off in the middle of the wilderness (different scenarios start you off in different circumstances), and you have to find your own way to survive the environment, seasons, and prosper.
It's totally open ended, you can be a hunter, farmer, trader, pretty much anything. The game uses a skill system similar to UO, skills go up when you use them. The crafting system is great, you can gather resources and build anything from a simple knife to a cottage.
The game is pretty hardcore, it's perma-death. You can only save when you quit the game, and if you die, it's game-over. It's pretty fun that way because you have to live with your mistakes, eat a poison mushroom and try to survive the food poisoning rather than just reloading a saved game. (I failed, a bear found me and ate me when I was laying on the ground weak and vomiting)
There's a lot of Finnish mythology and lore, no direct magic, but there are woodland spirits who will affect the outcome of your luck depending if your actions please or anger them.
In my first game, I was a hunter, did pretty well, too. I made my own traps and javelins. I later found a group of traders in the forest stealing my traps, so I went predator on them. I ran around sneaking in the bushes picking them off one-by-one with my javelins. Then I skinned their corpses, made clothes out of their skin, and ate the remains. Life was good till I was exploring a cave, fell into a hole, couldn't get out, and starved to death before a bob-cat finished me. :(
Here's a link to the site:
http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw.html