Info about Ex Natura: Nature Corrupted: Official game description: Discord Channel =============== Join Blackburne Games discord community \[/url\] About the Game ============== Ex Natura: Nature Corrupted is a souls-like game with Enrage mechanic which sets in a Nature themed dark fantasy world. Fight your way from the deepest dungeons to the top of the clouds and save the corrupted nature in this mysterious "pre-human" era-themed epic story. \[img\]\[/img\] \[b\]\[h2\]You will play as Elrih The God of Air. Walk within the footsteps with him to experience the journey he goes through to claim his throne. \[/h2\]\[/b\] \[h2\]\[b\]LORE \[/b\]\[/h2\] Long time ago, on a planet made of dust, with no plants or trees, lived Primogenitus (first people). Then came the clouds and the rain, lakes and seas came into existence; saplings of The World Tree started to grow inside The Heart Of The Earth. Gûl wanted to decimate the World tree while Elrih wanted it to preseve it. Therefore, a war broke out between Gûl and Elrih. As a consequence of this age-old war, the Primogenitus fell out of power and evolved into today’s humans. Gûl became the one who was defeated and captivated under The World Tree. After thousands of years, a malignant cult of humans goes to The World Tree, breaks the seal that holds Gûl captive and Gûl becomes free. \[h2\]\[b\]COMBAT\[/b\]\[/h2\] \[i\]\[b\]Powerful Foes & Epic Boss Scenes\[/b\]\[/i\] Defeat the ones who obey the corrupted world of Ex Natura. Clear them all by using your power of straight and magic. \[h2\]\[b\]SKILLTREE \[/b\]\[/h2\] \[i\]\[b\]Choose your own path\[/b\]\[/i\] Evolve with powerful new skills and abilities and defeat your enemies in a way that adapts to your style of play. \[h2\]\[b\]GATHER & CRAFT\[/b\]\[/h2\] \[i\]\[b\]You have to be prepared for battle\[/b\]\[/i\] Summon your magic and stir the right herbs into a powerful potion. \[h2\]\[b\]EXPLORE & SOLVE PUZZLES\[/b\]\[/h2\] \[i\]\[b\]Cruel World of Ex Natura is waiting for you to discover\[/b\]\[/i\] Use your wisdom to solve puzzles and explore the world with your curiosity. \[b\]\[h2\]Highlights / Features\[/h2\]\[/b\] \[list\]\[\*\]More than 16+ defeatable foes \[\*\]Progressive difficulty and character progression system \[\*\]A variety of biomes for players to explore \[\*\]Epic bosses with their unique fighting \[\*\]Numerous Unlockable skins \[\*\]Mysterious puzzles, engaging platforming elements, and a fast responsive combat system. \[\*\]Rich Story\[/list\] \[img\]\[/img About the Game ============== Ex Natura: Nature Corrupted is a souls-like game with Enrage mechanic which sets in a Nature themed dark fantasy world. Fight your way from the deepest dungeons to the top of the clouds and save the corrupted nature in this mysterious "pre-human" era-themed epic story. ** You will play as Elrih The God of Air. Walk within the footsteps with him to experience the journey he goes through to claim his throne. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** **LORE** -------- Long time ago, on a planet made of dust, with no plants or trees, lived Primogenitus (first people). Then came the clouds and the rain, lakes and seas came into existence; saplings of The World Tree started to grow inside The Heart Of The Earth. Gûl wanted to decimate the World tree while Elrih wanted it to preseve it. Therefore, a war broke out between Gûl and Elrih. As a consequence of this age-old war, the Primogenitus fell out of power and evolved into today’s humans. Gûl became the one who was defeated and captivated under The World Tree. After thousands of years, a malignant cult of humans goes to The World Tree, breaks the seal that holds Gûl captive and Gûl becomes free. **COMBAT** ---------- _**Powerful Foes & Epic Boss Scenes**_ Defeat the ones who obey the corrupted world of Ex Natura. Clear them all by using your power of straight and magic. **SKILLTREE** ------------- _**Choose your own path**_ Evolve with powerful new skills and abilities and defeat your enemies in a way that adapts to your style of play. **GATHER & CRAFT** ------------------ _**You have to be prepared for battle**_ Summon your magic and stir the right herbs into a powerful potion. **EXPLORE & SOLVE PUZZLES** --------------------------- _**Cruel World of Ex Natura is waiting for you to discover**_ Use your wisdom to solve puzzles and explore the world with your curiosity. ** Highlights / Features --------------------- ** * More than 16+ defeatable foes * Progressive difficulty and character progression system * A variety of biomes for players to explore * Epic bosses with their unique fighting * Numerous Unlockable skins * Mysterious puzzles, engaging platforming elements, and a fast responsive combat system. * Rich Story Release date: 19 Jul, 2023 Categories: Soulslike Combat, Single-player Story, Character Progression, Exploration, Puzzle Solving, Resource Management, Platformer - Hardware Profile: No data Feature extractions: - Community Price: No data - Playtime Metrics: No data - Time-to-fun: No data - Player Archetypes: No data Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category. Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews. What players like: - Unique & Engaging Souls-like Experience (weight 0.99): Players consistently praise the game for its unique blend of Souls-like mechanics, captivating atmosphere, and engaging gameplay, especially considering its indie budget. The nature-themed world and challenging combat are frequently highlighted as standout features. - Impressive Visuals & Art Style (weight 0.27): Despite its budget, the game receives high marks for its visual presentation, including stunning graphics, beautiful landscapes, and effective environmental design that perfectly conveys the game's atmosphere. - Challenging & Satisfying Combat (weight 0.21): Combat is frequently described as challenging, tense, and satisfying. Players enjoy the epic and unique boss fights, as well as the cool designs of the enemies. - Innovative Enrage Mechanic (weight 0.18): The 'Enrage' or 'Rage' mechanic is a fan favorite, adding a dynamic, chaotic, and enjoyable twist to combat encounters. Players find it both challenging and satisfying to utilize against enemies. - Dynamic Wall Jump & Crafting (weight 0.16): The wall jump mechanic is a particular highlight, making players feel agile and adding a fun, dynamic element to traversal. The crafting system is also noted as a cool and deep feature. - Immersive & Atmospheric Locations (weight 0.12): The game's locations are highly atmospheric and immersive, with detailed environments, effective lighting, and a sense of interconnectedness that enhances exploration. - Memorable Boss: Gûl (weight 0.12): The boss character Gûl is highly memorable and impactful, leaving a lasting impression on players due to its challenging nature and unique personality. - Balanced Difficulty & Puzzles (weight 0.09): The game offers a well-balanced difficulty, incorporating various puzzles and challenging enemy placements across its interconnected locations, encouraging mastery of mechanics. - Captivating Story & Narrative (weight 0.09): The game's story and narrative are praised for being gripping, captivating, and well-integrated into the overall experience, keeping players hooked. - Enjoyable Experience & Smooth Controls (weight 0.08): Players report a highly enjoyable experience with smooth controls and fluid performance, contributing to overall satisfaction. - High-Quality Soundtrack (weight 0.08): The game's soundtrack is surprisingly good, with a mix of genres that effectively enhances the game's atmosphere and world. - Classic RPG Progression (weight 0.06): The game features a classic RPG-style character progression system with leveling, upgrades, and tasks that encourage continuous player advancement. Common complaints: - Game is riddled with bugs (weight 0.84): Players report an overwhelming number of game-breaking bugs, glitches, and technical issues, including crashes, corrupted saves, invisible walls, and characters getting stuck. This makes the game largely unplayable and feels like an unfinished product. - Poor performance and optimization (weight 0.61): The game suffers from severe performance issues, including significant FPS drops, stuttering, and unresponsiveness, regardless of graphics settings. Many players found the game unoptimized and demanding on PC resources. - Subpar sound and voice acting (weight 0.41): The sound design is widely criticized for being glitchy, poorly implemented, and having issues with volume levels. Voice acting is described as mediocre or amateur, further detracting from the experience. - Outdated graphics and animations (weight 0.39): Reviewers consistently criticize the game's outdated and low-quality graphics, animations, and overall visual presentation. The game's aesthetic is often compared to much older titles, indicating a lack of modern polish. - Awkward jumping and movement (weight 0.23): The jumping and movement mechanics are described as bizarre, floaty, and poorly designed, often leading to players getting stuck or falling through textures. This impacts traversal and overall gameplay fluidity. - Clunky and unpolished combat (weight 0.21): The combat system is frequently described as clunky, unpolished, and boring, often devolving into chaotic button mashing. Specific issues include auto-lock features and a lack of depth. - Missing and broken settings (weight 0.17): The game lacks essential settings and options, particularly for graphics and controls. Existing settings often don't register changes or reset automatically, and basic UI controls are reported as non-functional. - Weak enemy AI and boss issues (weight 0.17): Enemy AI is problematic, with enemies getting stuck or exhibiting predictable movement patterns. Boss battles are also noted for issues like missing sounds, easy difficulty, or bugs preventing item pickup. - Unoriginal Souls-like design (weight 0.1): The game is perceived as an unoriginal and poor imitation of Souls-like games, with many elements feeling like a direct ripoff. This leads to disappointment for fans of the genre. - Gûl boss is overly difficult (weight 0.07): The boss character 'Gûl' is consistently highlighted as an extremely difficult and frustrating encounter, causing significant player challenge and often leading to defeat. Gameplay feedback: - Extensive Crafting System (weight 0.14): The game heavily emphasizes resource gathering and crafting, particularly for items like weapons, armor, and potions. Alchemy is a key component of this system, allowing players to create essential items. - Souls-like with Parkour (weight 0.13): The game is primarily described as a 'Souls-like' experience, incorporating challenging combat and exploration. It also integrates parkour elements, such as wall climbing and dashing, reminiscent of games like Prince of Persia. - Gûl as Key Boss (weight 0.09): Gûl is a significant boss character, often described as a formidable, sentient forest spirit or beast. The narrative involves battling Gûl to save nature and the world. - Exploration and Danger (weight 0.05): Players explore large, open-world environments filled with various enemies and traps. The gameplay loop involves navigating these perilous locations while managing health and stamina. - Gradual Story Progression (weight 0.05): The game's narrative unfolds gradually, providing a 'slow burn' experience. Small cutscenes are used to immerse the player in the story as it progresses. - Skill-Based Combat (weight 0.04): Combat requires players to master defensive maneuvers like dodging and parrying. Success in boss fights depends on studying enemy movesets and identifying weaknesses. - Close Respawn Points (weight 0.02): Respawn points are conveniently located close to each other, which can reduce frustration after dying. - Environmental and Animal Dangers (weight 0.02): The primary threats in the game come from mutated animals and environmental hazards, reinforcing the nature-themed dangers. - Gamepad Only Support (weight 0.02): The game is noted to only function with gamepads, which could be a limitation for players who prefer keyboard and mouse controls. - Character Leveling System (weight 0.02): The game includes a level-up system, allowing players to improve their character's abilities and stats over time. - Return Portals Available (weight 0.02): Portals are available to facilitate returning to previously visited sections of the game world, aiding in navigation and backtracking. - Heavy Attacks are Key (weight 0.02): Heavy attacks are the primary source of damage output, indicating a combat style that rewards deliberate, powerful strikes. - Infrequent Combat (weight 0.02): Combat encounters are not frequent, suggesting a focus on other gameplay elements like exploration or puzzle-solving. - Save Game Functionality (weight 0.02): The game allows players to save their progress, providing convenience and reducing the risk of losing significant playtime. - Linear Progression (weight 0.02): The progression through the game is described as linear, suggesting a structured path rather than a fully open-ended experience. - Infinite Experience Exploit (weight 0.01): There is a known exploit that allows for infinite experience, even on the Steam Deck. This could impact game balance and player progression. Performance notes: - Missing display options (weight 0.04): The game lacks essential display options such as FPS limits and a functional V-Sync. This absence prevents players from properly managing their frame rates and screen tearing, contributing to a less optimized experience. - High GPU usage and temperatures (weight 0.02): Players noted that the game causes graphics cards to reach 100% usage, resulting in unusually high temperatures. This suggests inefficient resource management or a lack of proper optimization for hardware utilization. Recommendations: - Do not recommend game (weight 0.26): Many players strongly advise against purchasing the game, citing it as unplayable, not worth the money, or a waste of time. This sentiment is widespread and indicates significant issues. - Good for Souls-like fans (weight 0.15): The game is recommended for fans of the Souls-like genre, especially those looking for a challenging combat experience or a unique take on the genre. It appeals to a specific player base. - Game needs more development (weight 0.13): Several reviews indicate the game feels like an early access title with many bugs, suggesting players wait for updates or its full release. This points to a need for further development and polish. - Buy only on sale (weight 0.08): Many players suggest purchasing the game only when it's on a significant sale, indicating that its current price point might be too high for its perceived value. A discount makes it more appealing. - Challenging but enjoyable (weight 0.03): Some players humorously mention 'rage quitting' but still imply a recommendation, suggesting the game's difficulty is a core part of its appeal for them. - Worth supporting developers (weight 0.03): A few players express a desire to support the developers or find the game a good deal at its current stage, indicating some positive sentiment towards the creators or the game's value proposition. - Worth a try (weight 0.01): A single cluster suggests giving the game a try, which is a neutral but slightly positive sentiment, indicating it might be worth exploring for some. Other player notes: - Enhance presentation and UI (weight 0.05): Players are looking for enhancements to the game's presentation and user interface. Specific suggestions include adding cinematic elements for lore and more unique, thematic UI designs to improve immersion. - Improve character visuals and voice acting (weight 0.04): Feedback indicates that while the game is generally appreciated, there's room for improvement in character visual quality and the consistency of voice acting. Addressing these could polish the overall experience. - Add co-op multiplayer (weight 0.02): A significant number of players expressed a desire for a cooperative multiplayer mode. This suggests a strong interest in shared gameplay experiences. - Provide Chinese translation (weight 0.02): There is a specific request for a Chinese language translation. This indicates a potential market for the game in China and a desire for broader accessibility. Emotions: - Satisfaction (weight 0.16): Players felt satisfied due to the game's challenging yet rewarding combat, strategic mechanics, and continuous progression. The overall quality, including good graphics, optimization, and immersive atmosphere, also contributed to a positive and enjoyable experience, often seen as good value for money. - Frustration (weight 0.15): Frustration stemmed primarily from numerous game-breaking bugs, poor optimization, and clunky controls, which often made the game unplayable or led to corrupted saves. Additionally, issues like bad localization, strange hitboxes, and significant difficulty spikes contributed to a frustrating experience. - Disappointment (weight 0.14): Disappointment arose from the game's unpolished and incomplete state, failing to meet player expectations despite perceived potential. Specific issues included poor graphics, weak mechanics, low FPS, and a general lack of developer effort or support, leading to regret over the purchase. - Appreciation (weight 0.12): Players appreciated the game's unique blend of genres, stunning visuals, captivating storyline, and immersive atmosphere, often highlighting its successful execution of Souls-like elements. The challenging boss fights, character progression, and impressive soundtrack also contributed to a positive perception. - Excitement (weight 0.11): Excitement was driven by the game's thrilling and engaging combat, particularly the epic boss fights and the dynamic 'enrage' mechanic. The challenging gameplay, unique mechanics, and captivating plot also contributed to a sense of being hooked and constantly on edge. - Joy (weight 0.04): Joy was expressed through a deep love for the game, particularly enjoying the exploration and the challenging experience it offered. The wall jump mechanic and boss fights were specifically highlighted as sources of enjoyment. - Hope (weight 0.04): Hope was expressed for the game's future development, including desires for co-op, improved character graphics, and general polish and fixes. Players saw potential for improvement and wished for the studio's continued success. - Humor (weight 0.04): Humor was used to describe the game's extreme difficulty and frustrating moments, often through hyperbolic and relatable comparisons. Phrases like 'died more times than in real life' or 'hate yourself' were used to comically convey the challenging experience. - Immersion (weight 0.02): Immersion was achieved through the game's atmospheric locations, richly detailed landscapes, and overall world design. The unique blend of environmental themes and strong visuals and sound design contributed to an otherworldly and captivating experience. - Anger (weight 0.02): Anger stemmed from the game's unplayable state and the perception of developers releasing non-functional games. Some players also expressed anger over what they perceived as an 'asset flip' or design choices that actively fought against the player. - Enjoyment (weight 0.02): Players found enjoyment in the game's fun gameplay, beautiful views, and accessible mechanics. The combat and progression systems were also key contributors to an overall positive gameplay experience. - Amusement (weight 0.02): Amusement was derived from the game's unique and often challenging elements, such as the 'sentient piece of wood' and the relatability of the 'enrage mechanic.' The humorous descriptions of the character 'Gul' also contributed to this feeling. - Optimism (weight 0.01): Optimism was expressed regarding the game's future, specifically hoping for performance improvements and general fixes. Players saw potential in the game and believed it could improve over time. - Mixed (weight 0.01): Mixed feelings arose from the contrast between the game's clear potential and its unfulfilled execution. Players enjoyed the core gameplay but were frustrated by broken systems, leading to a conflicted overall experience. - Interest (weight 0.01): Interest was sparked by the game's unique variation on the Souls-like theme, particularly its boss fights, diverse locations, and engaging puzzles. - Challenge (weight 0.01): The feeling of challenge was primarily caused by the character 'Gul' and the 'enrage mechanic,' which made encounters difficult and demanding. - Surprise (weight 0.01): Surprise was experienced due to the game's unexpected difficulty, indicating that the challenge level exceeded initial expectations. - Determination (weight 0.01): Determination was a direct result of the challenging gameplay, specifically the desire to overcome difficult obstacles and defeat the character 'Gûl'. - Pride (weight 0.01): Pride was expressed in relation to the game's origin, specifically highlighting the positive aspects of Turkish game development. - Concern (weight 0.01): Concern was raised regarding the game's performance issues and its future development, indicating worries about its long-term viability and improvement.}