MidBoss

MidBoss
Developer	Eniko
Theme	Fantasy
Influences
Status	Beta
Released	11 April 2014 (v0.5.0 alpha)
Updated	28 August 2015 (v0.7.0 beta)
Licensing	Closed source, free beta
P. Language	C#
Platforms	Windows
Interface	Graphical, mouse, keyboard
Game Length
Official site of MidBoss

About

MidBoss is a video game about possessing your defeated enemies in order to become stronger. You play the weakest of the dungeon denizens, an imp with no ability other than possessing other creatures. Your goal is to defeat and possess increasingly stronger creatures, unlocking their abilities for yourself and becoming stronger as you go along, and eventually defeat and become the dungeon's ultimate endboss.

The game is currently in beta, the game is still being balanced and some art assets and features may be incomplete.

Trailer

MidBoss Beta Trailer

Features

• Possess your enemy and gain their strengths and skills
• 8 forms and 35 abilities to unlock.
• Randomly generated loot and equipment system.
• Randomized potion system. (optional)
• Exhaustive tooltips for everything
• Several types of lootable containers and chests.
• Line of sight and fog of war systems
• Randomly generated dungeon floors
• Single-file save and resume
• Permadeath
• Full options menu including key rebinding, resolution options
• 12 retro mode filters available in the options menu

Gameplay

In MidBoss you play a weak monster in a dungeon, an imp. The imp is not noteworthy at all, beaten by simple skeletons or zombies, except that it has the ability to possess other creatures after it kills them. To progress through the game you level up and put points into four meta attributes (Violence, Cruelty, Relentlessness and Adamancy) which govern your playstyle. How these attributes come to expression in the core attributes (actually used to determine gameplay effects) varies depending on the multipliers of your current form. By unlocking new forms you gain access to their improved multipliers, and as you level those forms up you can unlock new abilities.

Screenshots

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