“I’ll do it,” he joked (or so I thought). “You should add online multiplayer,” he said.

I had been sending screenshots of a new game I had started in 2019 to my friend Shane Lynch, a fellow coder who’d played unwitting victim in a number of my D&D campaigns through the years. It’s a chaotic dance of blades and bolts, swords and spells.Īnd while questions of which systems and themes will and won’t make the cut remain, one thing is certain: Salt and Sacrifice will absolutely have online multiplayer. Hunting a Mage is a multistage pursuit in which your quarry is just as likely to clash with rival Mages as it is with you.įor those of you who have played Salt and Sanctuary, imagine pursuing The Queen of Smiles through the village: she summons two rotten crossbowmen, retreats, stumbles right into The Sodden Knight, scraps it out with him for a bit, retreats again, summons a bronze knight and launches a salvo of swords at you before retreating to her lair, where - cornered, desperate, fierce - she awaits you, for a final battle from which there is no escape.

Mages roam the world, summoning minions and wreaking havoc. A Marked Inquisitor is a criminal condemned, yet spared the hand of justice in exchange for a lifetime of service in the unending war against Mages: twisted, irredeemable creatures of elemental malice. Salt and Sacrifice expands on the world of Salt and Sanctuary by exploring a new era and region, as well as a new role: a Marked Inquisitor. But to so very many people, the lack of online co-op was the most egregious omission, which brings me to Salt and Sacrifice. The fighter DNA resonated with some people. For others, it was the elaborate skill tree. In hindsight, I’m certainly a little in the dark about what worked best for Salt and Sanctuary, not that there is a single right answer. From there, it was a lot of world pieces, monsters, weapons, and more: all hand-drawn, hand-animated, scripted, and placed a gradual journey to see if the bones of 2D brawling could animate the flesh of this dark fantasy RPG. I’d built some pretty competent combat systems in The Dishwasher series (which is now unbelievably two console generations old), so the idea of using that as a foundation for exploring an indie soulslike made sense.

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