A downloadable game

A dreaded warlord who died sixty years ago rises from its grave thanks to the efforts of the necromancer Damian. It now must seek its nine artifacts, scattered across the world, to regain its power and free itself from the domination of the necromancer.

The game is an attempt to create a highly nonlinear experience while still maintaining a story-heavy focus. Each of the nine artifacts can be retrieved in any order. The scenarios surrounding each artifact evolve both as time goes on and based on your own actions elsewhere. Each of the twenty-five party members have their own distinct set of skills, personality, and personal goals. Recruiting one may cause others to despise you. Your current party members will contribute deeply to the events unfolding in front of you, and have their own unique detailed dialogue. Your actions and your words ultimately determine how the world views you; a forgotten pinnacle of justice, a sinner seeking redemption, a rogue spirit acting on its own whims, a tyrannical abomination bent on world domination, or something entirely else.

Features:

-A nonlinear, open-ended game with a focus on story and characterization, with an approximate 40 hour playtime.

-The world and remaining dungeons radically change based on your decisions, actions, and inactions.

-Recruit twenty-five different party members, each with their own personality, specialties, and enough customization to level and grow them as you see fit.

-Unique strategy-oriented Battle System, that's a mix of classic RPG battles and tactics games. Features over 500 spells and skills and over 450 enemies that change with both where you are and with your game's progress.

-Determined Encounter system allows you to steadily progress through a region and lessen its monsters.

-Day/Night system with dynamic NPCs that have their own routines.

-Everything culminates; even sidequests have an effect on the world, though you may not immediately see it.

-Essentially everything is custom and was personally made from the ground up.

Download

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Draug 1.2.1.zip 337 MB

Install instructions

Installation simply consists of unzipping the file you downloaded (which this file was inside of). After doing that, run the file called Draug's Resurrection and select Draug'sResurrection.gam from the prompt window (it should be the only option; it's stored in the 'Main' folder if you navigate away from it). After that, the game will start. Take note that attempting to load an empty save file will cause the game to crash. This should only be of real concern the first time you ever start the game up.

If you are on basically any device made after 2006 or so, it is HIGHLY recommended that you run the game as administrator. If you do not, you may encounter the game randomly and inconsistently crashing (due to it not having permissions to write/access information). To run as administrator, right-click on Draug's Resurrection, go to Properties, then to the Compatibility tab, and enable 'Run this program as administrator'. If it fails on startup, Eric will warn you about this. If he doesn't, then you're probably good to go.

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