The Leper King

The Leper King is a metroidvania about a man whom life punished for his wrongdoings, trying to find his way back to the life he had.

The project combined classic metroidvania gameplay with elements of role-playing games, different story paths to choose from and even some elements of other genres that shine through at certain points in the game. It is, however, still very much in development, so a lot of that can and will inevitably change. Still, here is what I have:

The main character of The Leper King is - unsurprisingly - a leprous king. At the start of the game, he is thrown out of a castle and the gates are shut behind him - being too weak to rule his kingdom, he was removed from power. Now, the player is on their own, the only possible direction to go being the forest. Here, they find another character, the ghost of a past king. The ghost is absorbed by the main character and gives him power, allowing him to move fast, jump high and be strong. Now, after finding the first three items, a sword, a shield and a pistol (and with them the first three abilities), the player can decide to go either into an old abandoned church to fight demons, into a library to fight undead, or into a ruin to fight eldritch beings. This decision determines the powers the player will get, as well as the mini boss they will fight later in the game.

There are three possible "classes" for the players to choose from. Project titles are "Cleric", "Mage" and "Warlock" (yes, I like D&D), but I might change the names later on. Each one is fundamentally a tree of abilities that is determined by the choice at the beginning of the game (Cleric for the church, mage for the library and warlock for the ruin). Each one gets a number of individual abilities and is associated with one of the three starting abilities (Cleric with the sword, Mage with the shield and Warlock with the Pistol).