The Crystal Golem

The Crystal Golem

released on Nov 02, 2020
by Luis S

The Crystal Golem

released on Nov 02, 2020
by Luis S

The Crystal Golem is a short but hard action game, inspired by Dark Souls and playing old games without a manual. Will you be able to destroy the corruption from the Void and restore Humankind?


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You slowly walk through a corridor and use very slow attacks to deplete the excessively fat health bars of enemies. Honestly, saying that this game is inspired by Dark Souls sounds like an overstatement -- it feels like a King's Field clone, but with slower movement, no level design, no immersion (your camera clips through walls everywhere, and it is obvious that the entire games exists in "the void"), no inventory, no nothing. It's also easy, so that's more false advertising for you. I hope that the developer learnt something through making this game, because as a game, I really do not see any reason for anyone to bother playing this.

This is the part where I'd give a special shout-out tot he music, but it just sounds like a collection of rejected tracks from a PS1 King's Field game.

Edit: turns out, there's a "fast mode", in case you don't feel like spending minutes at a time walking between encounters. Should have put that into the main menu or something.