Dark Forest: Reborn hopes to bring the complexity of old-school RPGs to the text adventure genre
Choices and combat in a distant future
At a glance, Dark Forest: Reborn seems quite sparse, even more so than a Tin Man Games text adventure. But this game has big ambitions, planning to bring reactive NPCs and complex interactions to the interactive fiction format.
In Dark Forest, you enter a devastated far-future Earth, and embark on your quest into this otherworldly place. Like old-school RPGs, you'll have a great amount of freedom to progress as you wish, from conversation and deceit to slaughtering anyone in your path.
Interestingly, the game uses a natural language system similar to chatbots to power NPCs reactions, so rather than canned dialogue, you'll be able to have conversations based on typed responses.
Combat will be similarly freeform, letting you target individual body parts with your weapons or futuristic "magic".
Dark Forest: Reborn is still in heavy development; you can follow its progress on the game's blog and SlideDB page.
