Depths of Peril
Depths of Peril is a single player action RPG (role-playing game) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and…
Depths of Peril is an indie developed by Soldak Entertainment, released 5 September 2007 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Depths of Peril is
Depths of Peril is an indie game developed by Soldak Entertainment and released in 2007. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Depths of Peril is a single player action RPG (role-playing game) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death! As a faction leader, you must deal with rival factions through diplomacy, trade, and in time, war. Between battles and raids against other barbarian factions, you build the most powerful faction possible, to withstand your enemies. Building the power of a faction involves exploring a fantasy world, slaying dangerous monsters, solving…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Depths of Peril holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.2 GHz Pentium 4 (or other equivalent), 128MB RAM and GeForce 2 (or other equivalent). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Depths of Peril launched on 5 September 2007, within three weeks of BioShock, Halo 3, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Rome: Total War - Collection. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: BioShock, Halo 3, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Rome: Total War - Collection.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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