Soulslike meets Minecraft in an MMORPG on Steam. What sounds inappropriate at first looks surprisingly good in the first trailer of Dark Craft.
What is Dark Craft? The publisher and developer Take Top Entertainment, based in Kazakhstan, has so far focused on mobile games like Mother Simulator or Chillybash, but now clearly wants to implement a significantly more ambitious project.
Dark Craft is set to be released on Steam and become the first Soulslike for the MMORPG genre. The developers promise a combat system like in FromSoftware’s classic Dark Souls. In addition, a dark fantasy world and an MMO framework through which other players can become your allies or enemies. The first trailer for Dark Craft gives a first impression:
Game Masters will shape the world
What will this look like in practice? Dark Craft will focus on the following pillars:
- A dark fantasy world shaped by Game Masters: Game Masters can intervene in the action at any time, lure players into ambushes, act as world bosses, assign unique quests, or trigger events that won’t occur again in this form.
- Soul-like experience: Not only the action combat system will be oriented towards Dark Souls, but also the difficulty level and the way victories must be earned. Through defeats, players lose a part of their loot.
- MMO framework: In the world, you can encounter other players anywhere, though you never know at first whether they are friend or foe. Those who team up with others can explore particularly dangerous places and defeat enemies. However, no one guarantees that the distribution of loot won’t end in betrayal.
- Payment model: Dark Craft will adopt a free-to-play model.
On top of all this is the special look: The characters shown in the trailer strongly resemble an adult version of Minecraft with their blocky aesthetic. Combined with the dark fantasy setting, it creates an exciting mix that makes us eager for more in the first trailer. What do you think?
By the way, Dark Craft does not yet have a release date. Fortunately, there are already numerous action RPGs that promise challenging Souls-like experiences. You can find a list of recommendations below: Here are the 15 best alternatives to Dark Souls that do not come from FromSoftware.
