‘Moroi’ available on Steam at the present, is developed by Violet Saint and published by Good Shephard Entertainment.

Have you ever wanted to sit in a dark room and dive into a top-down story-driven fairytale with a full spectrum of dark humour? With Moroi, it’s sure to tick the boxes of many avid horror and grim fairytale fans, bringing gore and enjoyment to the max.

Starting the game, you wake up in what seems to be a prison in the sky, but nothing is as it appears and nothing feels real. After searching around you talk to some of the messed up prisoners including a royal meat grinder who was imprisoned for eating the cook. Each person had a small questline to collect some insane materials to either satiate their hunger or to help you escape.

As you progress, you gain a sword to defend yourself, slowly making your way through the barracks, fighting off every guard in sight. Solving puzzles, fighting waves of enemies, not to mention later picking up what seems to be a Gatling gun called ‘Fury’ which tears through enemies.

You will even be required to collect enough blood to use your finishing move to gain life orbs which heal you, making progress a lot easier. As you progress, you travel to different locations, some that don’t seem realistic in the slightest, blending well with the ultimately uneasy setting.

Moroi has full compatibility for a mouse keyboard and controller, with mouse and keyboard controls being very simple with the classic WASD for movement, left mouse button for primary attacks and right mouse button for secondary attacks.

Also included are movements; Space for rolling, E for interacting, and J for your journal with 1 to 4 going to weapons or equipment. Controller bindings are also very simple using all the main buttons for movement etc. It also has customisation of difficulty with three difficulty levels from Easy to Medium to hard. Enabling you to challenge yourself.

One thing that caught my eye was the amount of detail put into the environment with block texture and shading being extremely crisp, even the weather style and visual effects worked so well and looked amazing. The fight scenes are memorable graphically, cutting up enemies with blood flying everywhere and heads rolling on the floor or with the Gatling gun firing off tearing enemies apart.

The sound work, don’t even get me started. Listening to the ambience and rain sounding so real like I was standing outside in the rain with flashes of lightning and thunder soon followed making everything so surreal, which adds so much to the game itself.

Overall, Moroi has shown that anything is possible, pulling together an absolute masterpiece and I couldn’t be happier. The amount of detail and effort put into the story and visual effects shows true ambition and dedication to the game. I cannot wait until the full game release. I can promise you that I will play the hell out of it, and I know a lot of other people will as well.

Written by: TypicalCambieAU