- Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
A top-down hack-and-slash where Lucah must fight to reclaim their identity from the grasp of the Nightmare monsters that inhabit the dream-like land. Lucah: Born of a Dream features a hand-drawn surrealist artstyle and contains heavy themes relating to organized religion, queerness and suppression of one's identity through indoctrination.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and bleak.
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RPG SiteZack ReeseAug 20189/10A breathtaking adventure that takes a grim and depressing story with highly engaging combat to create a hidden gem well worth experiencing.
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Digital ChumpsEric LaymanJul 20198.5/10Lucah: Born of a Dream is a neon crash of allusive storytelling, deliberate top-down combat, and distressed, manic ambience. Its indirect means of expression risks losing the player in its internal contradictions—it's hysterical and tender, it's demanding and soothing—but tenacious pandemonium is also its objective. Lucah: Born of a Dream seeks an audience that can relate to its world without needing to make explicit sense of its features.
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EurogamerEdwin Evans-ThirlwellJul 2019Sterling hack-and-slash combat meets raw, fractured prose in one of gaming's most essential nightmares.
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Cubed3Eric AceAug 20194/10Lucah: Born of a Dream is the type of game that starts off great, but the more someone plays, the more they realize it isn't really so. Combat ultimately is repetitive, the graphics are bad enough that important scenes are lost, and the largest problem is that the 'deep' story is so vague that this becomes an annoyance every time some dark concept is dropped on the player only to never be seen again. To allow a player to finish a sizable play-through and have zero idea on the story is unforgivable.
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FextralifeJul 20197/10A very fun 2D brawler with a striking art style, marred with an interesting story told very badly. Between the custom combos, the scoring system, and the hard optional dungeon there is a lot here for $15.
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About the game
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- melessthanthree
- Publisher
- Syndicate Atomic LLC.
- Released
- August 21, 2018
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unity 5
IGDB rating 6.9/10 from 7 ratings.
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