Dark City spreads its gloomy tentacles from the tabletop on Steam. Originally released in 2020 by Free League Publishing, Dark City is the undisputed, award-winning breakthrough from the world of Old School Renaissance game design. This tabletop role-playing game strips down the d20 rules to their deadliest and fills the empty space with vivid and terrifying death metal-inspired visuals that are equal parts ferocious and colorful as its mechanics.
On September 24, independent game designer Morbidware announced that he was working on a modern video game inspired by Dark City‘s world, deadness and art design. The game is called Dark City The Supreme Heresy. The game is a 2D side-scroller action game, and its Steam page makes its gloomy promises of death with the tag “Roguelike.” From what we’ve seen so far, it resembles its peers like Blasphemous AND Corpse Keeper.
Mork Borg Heresy Supreme vows not to forget its OSR roots, offering RPG elements in the form of stats and skill rolls. As Steam page threatens“You should always trust your life to the roll of the dice. That’s why it’s called a roll of the dice.” In many ways, the game promises a mix of gory grandeur and the knowledge that you’ll have to work your way through many, many characters before you finally reach the end of its pitch-black apocalypse.
Mordbidware’s previous game is Textorcista bullet hell game based on exorcisms, which only strengthens this cooperation Dark City makes more sense when I say it. Mork Borg Heresy Supreme announced Kickstarter campaign to fund a modern, digital vision of their surreal hell. Kickstarter starts October 1stand the game’s premiere is planned for the end of 2025.
The board game advises you to burn the book; I suppose now we should burn our computers too. I just hope they kept the thigh club.
