Bound By Flame
Release Date: 8 May, 2014
You are a mercenary possessed by a flame demon in a desperate world ravaged by seven Ice Lords and their Dead-Army.
In this RPG where all your choices lead to consequences, you will have to choose between unleashing the powers of the beast within and rejecting the demonic influence that wants to claim your humanity.
Freely develop your abilities and combat style through three skill trees: swing the heavy weapons of the Fighter, wield the sneaky dual daggers of the Ranger, or use the devastating flame spells of the Pyromancer.
Recruit companions who will live, love, hate and fight alongside you against the dreadful creatures of Vertiel, in real-time epic battles based on tactics and reaction.
The bigger the danger, the greater the temptation to draw on the demon’s power at the cost of your soul… which way will YOU choose?
In this RPG where all your choices lead to consequences, you will have to choose between unleashing the powers of the beast within and rejecting the demonic influence that wants to claim your humanity.
Freely develop your abilities and combat style through three skill trees: swing the heavy weapons of the Fighter, wield the sneaky dual daggers of the Ranger, or use the devastating flame spells of the Pyromancer.
Recruit companions who will live, love, hate and fight alongside you against the dreadful creatures of Vertiel, in real-time epic battles based on tactics and reaction.
The bigger the danger, the greater the temptation to draw on the demon’s power at the cost of your soul… which way will YOU choose?
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows
Minimum:
- OS: WINDOWS XP SP3/WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
- Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.2 GHZ
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 AND SHADERS 4.0 COMPATIBLE ATI RADEON HD 4850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT OR HIGHER
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Sound Card: DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE
- Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION
SteamOS + Linux
Minimum:
- OS: UBUNTU 12.04 LTS/SteamOS
- Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.2 GHZ
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB SHADERS 4.0 COMPATIBLE ATI RADEON HD 4850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT OR HIGHER
- Storage: 6 GB available space
First steps
Upgrade a skill
Just a warm-up
Vanquish 25 enemies
Beasted
Vanquish a Juggernaut
Just a warning
Vanquish 75 enemies
First come, first served
Loot 20 chests
Blacksmith
Make 5 improvements to your weapons and armour
Vulture
Search 50 fallen enemies
Just a slaughter
Vanquish 150 enemies
Sword it out
Kill 50 enemies with a sword
General demoted
Vanquish a Deadwalker General.
Bloody hell
Kill 50 enemies with daggers
Farewell my Concubine
Vanquish a Concubine
Craftsmanship
Make 100 objects (potions, booby-traps and munitions)
Mercenary
Accomplish 20 side quests
It's a trap!
Set 20 traps and have them sprung
Shot your bolt
Fire 50 crossbow bolts
I'm on fire
Set your enemies aflame 50 times
...the harder they fall
Vanquish Lord Blackfrost
And I don't throw things away
Recycle 30 objects
Chrysalid
Poison your enemies 50 times
Unleash the Beast
Accomplish your transformation by following the demon's way
The one and only Lord
Become the most powerful being on Vertiel
Without fear, without reproach
Accomplish all of Randval's personal quests
At the lady's service
Accomplish all of Edwen's personal quests
Purifying fire
Purify Vertiel by bathing it in flame
Master at arms
Unlock all the the Warrior skills and their upgrades
Patron
Accomplish all of Sybil's personal quests
Master Ranger
Unlock all of the skills of a Ranger and their upgrades
Sacrifice
Use the energy of the Worldheart to annihilate the Ice lords and save Vertiel
Hawk
Complete Bound by Flame in the Hawk difficulty mode
Psycho killer
Kill 50 enemies with an axe
Humanist
Preserve your humanity
Erudite love
Seduce Sybil
Ice breaker
Seduce Edwen
Firestarter
Unlock all the Pyromancer specialization skills and their upgrades
Quite a hammering
Kill 50 enemies with a warhammer
A fulfilled elf
Accomplish all of Rhelmar's personal quests
Buffalo
Complete Bound by Flame in the Buffalo difficulty mode
Captain
Complete Bound by Flame in the Captain difficulty mode
Chivalrandy
Seduce Randval
Romance with pointy ears
Seduce Rhelmar
Mathras, the Undead
Sybil, the Mage
Randhal, the Warrior
Edwen, the Witch
Rhelmar, the Ranger
The demon within
Mardo
February 10, 2016
Few words about the game:
Quite an enjoyable RPG game with nicely done mix of combat styles (warrior or ranger) with magic. Even though I didn't finished the game yet, it's fairly entertaining experience that I easily got involved into. Something that really surpriced me is that the game requires players choices to create their own moral path and it's done really impressively in here. Quite alot of enemy types and fine diversity of surroundings will keep this game attractive enough and when you will add its crafting system and skill tree, it's getting formed into a pleasant adventure game.
Advantages:
+ Splendid design of maps, enemies, weapons and armors
+ Skills tree is complex enough to create your own, unique style of gameplay
+ Story is interesting and nicely told
+ Outstanding music
+ Graphics are pretty good, not amazing, could be much better, but still good
+ You get to choose between being the good one or sacrificing your own soul to demon for sake of being "better"
Disadvantages:
- Fighting mechanics are as refined as you would expect it to be
- Animations are not as good as they should be
- As much as they took care of music, voicing in-game is simply poor
- Enemies are literal punch bags that take bits of damage what makes it a bit annoying after a while
Quite an enjoyable RPG game with nicely done mix of combat styles (warrior or ranger) with magic. Even though I didn't finished the game yet, it's fairly entertaining experience that I easily got involved into. Something that really surpriced me is that the game requires players choices to create their own moral path and it's done really impressively in here. Quite alot of enemy types and fine diversity of surroundings will keep this game attractive enough and when you will add its crafting system and skill tree, it's getting formed into a pleasant adventure game.
Advantages:
+ Splendid design of maps, enemies, weapons and armors
+ Skills tree is complex enough to create your own, unique style of gameplay
+ Story is interesting and nicely told
+ Outstanding music
+ Graphics are pretty good, not amazing, could be much better, but still good
+ You get to choose between being the good one or sacrificing your own soul to demon for sake of being "better"
Disadvantages:
- Fighting mechanics are as refined as you would expect it to be
- Animations are not as good as they should be
- As much as they took care of music, voicing in-game is simply poor
- Enemies are literal punch bags that take bits of damage what makes it a bit annoying after a while
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