Alkurai

Pretty fun game, wish it was a bit more polished.

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INTRO I really didn't know which reviews to take seriously going into this game because they jumped from comparing this game to dark souls (of course) to kinda negative. After having played what I feel was enough to experience what the game was going for here my opinion on the game as someone with no affiliation to the devs. DESCRIPTION The closest comparison I can give to Alkurai is a game called Devour (NOT Dark Souls...) when it was early on in development. Currently it plays as a low budget 4 player co op puzzle game of cat and mouse where you and the other playersare the mice and the AI is the cat. It's simple, engaging, and fun for what it's worth. GAMEPLAY You and up to three other players essentially go on fetch quests within a maze that's inhabited by an angry AI that viciously tracks each one of you down. When a player is caught and dies the others must try not to be caught while the dead player waits for a respawn. The rest of the game is filled with the usual mechanics; stamina which you must use sparingly as you don't want to get caught out of breath by the monster, puzzles that essentially can get chalked down to multi step fetch quests that will have the players navigating from one side of the map to the other, and a few sprinkled in jump scares to keep the horror theme going for it. CONCLUSION Alkurai is an entertaining game with potential if the devs keep up with it for anyone with a group of friends like myself who like to take a break from the AAA titles and find something that will keep us interested at least for a playthrough or two. Unfortunately as of right now I don't think the content provided is worth the steep $10 asking price but if you were to catch it on sale for $5 like I did you have yourself a decently entertaining game that promises much more content moving forward based on the most recent update.