Ash & Rust – v1.000

For seasoned ARPG lovers, a unique Indie entry is here! Construct a deep build as you fight your way through mysterious places. Enemies are strong and smart, but you’ll have a massive arsenal of tools and abilities to master in order to vanquish them. Dive in!

You are… NOT the hero. You’re just an Entity, plucked from the Aether to join a powerful organization. You are one of many OMENs, granted power and authority in exchange for servitude. You fulfill the wants and desires of overlords, creatures, and companies – the highest bidders. Your missions will take you to the farthest reaches, exploring wondrous places and meeting many characters. Some cower at your coming, but many eagerly embrace you. Some things are just as they seem, while others are smoke and mirrors. You can amass great influence as an OMEN, what mark on the world will you leave?

Game Features

• Abilities, Traits, and Gear interact with each other in deep ways, via an elegant UI grid system. Place Augment shapes into your Activated Inventory to enable them. The more shapes you can fit into the inventory the more power you can amass, so figuring out clever ways to piece things together can become a satisfying secondary skill.
• Design your own Abilities from scratch! Pick from 4 base types, then choose your payload and Element type. As you level, add as many augments as you can fit to tailor your ability to your exact needs.
• Choose from hundreds of augment and equipment options that combine to achieve interesting and deep playstyle types. For example, infusing the “Spell Weaving” trait onto your character makes it such that each time a different ability is cast, you stack up a buff. Casting the same ability twice in a row resets the stacks.
• Fully animation-based attacks and collider-hit physics.
• Abilities have animation timings, cooldowns, and in general require strategic intentions.
• “Weighty” movement and casts creates that satisfying crunchy combat.
• Master the timings of animations and attacks to dodge enemy abilities, block projectiles, and line up your own devastating counter-moves.
• Multiple End-game Modes! Each with Leaderboards/Achievements and unique mechanics.
• Lots of loot: Weapons, Gear, Augments, Trinkets, and more, which all have significant impacts on your power, build, and playstyle.
• Strategic Combat: Smart and strong enemies and bosses use A.I. Behavior Trees to respond to your actions: moving out of AoE, kiting when appropriate, dodging attacks, etc.
• Gorgeous and mysterious places to explore. Full PBR materials (physically based rendering), real-time volumetric lighting, responsive foliage and terrain, and other advanced technical features.
• Branching quests with dialogue choices. Your actions and responses shape the possible paths available to you.
• Character customization. Design the physical appearance of your character.
• And much more!