SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen
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Beaten. Bloody... hungry for revenge. Play as the Savage Barbarian whose life has been destroyed by agents of the rampaging Argeshii empire. Step into a new world full of danger, mystery, brutal combat and discovery! In the world of Lor, the sights of many have fallen on the lands of Gosen, a realm populated by sturdy folk and equally hazardous creatures. You will need wits, steel, and a good sword arm to survive!
At the end of the Age of Might, three titanic civilizations clashed where their lands converged - the Tower of God; a Monolith housing the essence of balance and a refuge for the One Guardian. Distrust, greed, and ultimately, the hubris of man led to the Fall of the Tower.
And so God left. With the Guardian and the Tower lost to time, a Great Wound was rent in the earth. Festering and emanating a miasma of madness, the creeping chaos has warped men's souls and twisted the fabric of reality over the following eons. Civilizations, cultures and kingdoms have risen and fallen.
Enter the Age of the Beast. Mankind is bereft of sanity, reason and hope. Avatars of ancient gods take more monstrous and bestial forms. Argesia, the seat of the Argeshii empire, now a desperate wasteland, has transformed into a vast slave trade in an attempt to slow its collapse into irrelevance.
The brutal warlord, Aben Bael, seeks the throne of Argesia and the power to restore sanity to the world of Lor, to restore the Age of Might. His dark crusade has led him to the lands of Gosen - directly into the path of a young and savage warrior... It is the twilight of the world and the search for the Shard of Gosen has begun.
The combat in SAVAGE - The Shard of Gosen is fast, fluid, and tactical. Dodge and roll through enemy strikes - raise your shield over your head to protect yourself from a hail of arrows, use it to parry an incoming melee strike, or to bash an opponent in the face! Equip yourself with one of a dozen armor sets and weapons, spread across several weapon categories like daggers, axes, two handed swords and throwing weapons, to name a few.
All of your weapons and gear gain their own experience points through combat and can be leveled up, then mastered to unlock unique perks or permanent bonus stats! Use your gained Essence Points from leveling up on one of three primary stats: Might, Resolve, and Favor, which affect sub stats like item find rate, knockback resistance, and raw damage output with larger two-handed weapons!
Be crafty and stun stomp enemies, hoist them above your head and toss them into other enemies, or onto a bed of spikes, creating a platform to traverse hazards safely!
The lands of Gosen are varied and numerous, from rolling hills, open plains, deep forests and frozen mountains. The sea is just as treacherous as Gosen's landlocked locations, and gives way to the Red Steppe, deserts and deadly swamps to the south. A combination of terrain, location, time of day and season will affect what challenges and characters you will encounter.
Gather crafting materials from corpses and natural resource nodes to use in upgrading your equipment, or forging new weapons, shields and armor. Refine materials and use ingredients to brew powerful potions through alchemy. Discovery of religious fetishes and carvings of ancient gods can aid in the forging process to grant bonuses!
- Explore a world full of traps and puzzles, including an open 3D world map
- Find and level up weapons, armor and shields which can be mastered to unlock permanent perks
- Skin and shatter corpses, mine and chop down trees to gather valuable materials
- Forge new equipment
- Use cooking and alchemy to create consumables or new materials to aid in crafting equipment
- Defeat bloodthirsty bosses and giant monsters
- Engage in a satisfying positional and skill based combat system
- Learn new abilities to help you traverse otherwise impassable obstacles
- Seasons change, affecting the weather, while the day/night cycle reveals celestial bodies and moon phases, granting greater or lesser affinity to associated gods
- Explore procedurally generated encounters on the world map based on environmental states (midnight, winter, a full moon with the sign of Magdragh in the sky might cause exciting scenarios to spawn on certain points on the world map!)
- BARBARIANS!
Should your will be of forged of steel, the lands of Gosen and beyond are yours for the taking - come and claim them!
Announcements
SAVAGE Enhanced!
SAVAGE Hits 0.2.5Hail barbarian! ⚔️Hither comes a new update with some important improvements, as well as some "quality of life" changes! New weapons and items have also been added, and the world of
MEGA Update - Pre-Volunheim MegaPatch!
HAIL Barbarian Horde!This patch brings with it a hefty amount of fixes, improvements, some new features, and some new content to make ready for Volunheim, and beyond!Some of the main highlights here
Early Access Mega Post!
YES, SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen has made it to Early Access!Hey everyone, Matt here, coming out of the grind cave for another update! Apologies for the lack of any news across EVERYTHING - it's been
GMS1 Exodus Part 2
Hail and happy weekend, Barbarians! ⚔The exodus from GMS1 to GMS2 goes on, and I wanted to be a bit further along with it before patching the game, but certain issues have come up (thanks for letting
Happy Thanksgiving! Barbaric Autumn Update
Hail and Happy Thanksgiving, barbarian, to all who slay, eat, drink, and be merry today!The battle rages on with porting Savage over to GMS2. I have encountered many pitfalls and speedbumps along the
Savage: The Shard of Gosen is a sidescrolling RPG inspired by the worst Zelda game
There are a lot of modern reimaginings of classic games happening nowadays, but Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link for NES is a game I never thought I'd see get that treatment. Widely considered one
2017.12.13 - Corpse Party and New Build!
Hail, Loinclothed Heathens! Let's get some bad news out of the way RIGHT NOW, shall we? It is becoming crushingly apparent that I won't get to a 100% finished Savage powerhouse of a game by the en
New Patch - Series of Fixes
First of all, thank you so much for all of the support!! All of the feedback, livestreams and encouragement has been insane and is absolutely flooring me! I managed to fix a few issues that have bee
2017.12.13 - Corpse Party and New Build!
Hail, Loinclothed Heathens! Let's get some bad news out of the way RIGHT NOW, shall we? It is becoming crushingly apparent that I won't get to a 100% finished Savage powerhouse of a game by the en
Cultural Differences - New Build!
**IMPORTANT** GameMaker games and Windows 10 seem to be butting heads on certain systems. If your display goes black and then white (showing nothing and no response from Savage) when starting the ga
New Playable Build!
Yes, new build! But we'll get to that in a second - - I've been down in a development hole working like a demon to get this game polished, feeling great, and worth your time to play. I'm finally com
Pre-Volunheim Mega Patch
Hail, Barbarian Horde! ⚔This update is big, juicy AND nutrient rich - but does not include Volunheim. We will get there!For now, I wanted to deliver a video to you covering the bigger, more interest
2017.09.12 - Thrusting All Over (and New Build!)
Horizontal thrusts? Up thrusts? DOWN thrusts?! I've got you covered, Barbarian Horde! The last few months I've been grinding away at the one last juicy feature I felt was necessary to make Savage re
Savagepocalypse – From The (1.X) Ashes
⚔ HAIL Barbarians! ⚔This update is a complicated one, and while it does not contain a massive amount of new content, it changes a massive amount of stuff under the hood thanks to a necessary move to
2017.09.12 - Thrusting All Over (and New Build!)
Horizontal thrusts? Up thrusts? DOWN thrusts?! I've got you covered, Barbarian Horde! The last few months I've been grinding away at the one last juicy feature I felt was necessary to make Savage re
Retropalooza - Coming Up for Air and Mini-Update
Hi everyone! Firstly I want to apologize to you all for the lack of updates. I have been buried up to my neck in this game (for probably too long, ha!) and I forget to come up for air sometimes -- e
HOTFIX - 2.5.1
BONED (badumtish) HOTFIX!Hail, barbarians! 🗡️Here's a quick hotfix to fix a few issues that have been recently reported. If you have run into these issues, sorry for the inconvenience and thank you
New Playable Build!
Yes, new build! But we'll get to that in a second - - I've been down in a development hole working like a demon to get this game polished, feeling great, and worth your time to play. I'm finally com
Happy New Year and Thank You!!
Thank you all so much for a great year, all of the support and patience! I hope you had a great holiday season and are set to have an even better new year!I wanted to take a moment to throw a video t
HOTFIX - Game Not Running/Installer Running Every Time
Very sorry to anyone having trouble playing the game!There are now two launch options for Savage when you play the game, one for 32-bit Windows and one for 64-bit:If you were having trouble launching
