Articles - Apocryph: an old-school shooter

Apocryph is an old-school fantasy shooter inspired by Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and Strife. - Static, carefully handcrafted levels and level-hubs, all packed with secrets, monsters and traps. - Your character can wield up to 9 different weapons with alternative fire modes, including melee armaments, spells, staffs and artifacts. - Some weapons and items can be used to stun enemies, freeze them solid, deal area of effect damage or even provide defensive measures. - Items can help you in tough situations, health potions will aid your health, mana vials can restore your mana, combat items can do some damage to an opponent. - The game uses a sophisticated gore system. A powerful finishing blow can rip a part of the enemy right out of him, while critically over damaging an opponent literally blows them to pieces, with limbs flying across the room and sticking to the walls.