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Avernum 2: Crystal Souls Releasing this Week

In a press release sent to Gaming Cypher, developer Spiderweb Software (Exile 2: Crystal Souls) announced that its newest CRPG, Avernum 2: Crystal Souls will be releasing this week, January 14.

Avernum 2 Launches Jan 14th for Win & Mac
Famed RPG coming to Steam, GOG, Apple, Humble Store, and direct from SpiderwebSoftware.com
 
Jan 12th, 2015 – Spiderweb Software is excited to announce the second game in the Avernum series, the retelling of the classic Exile franchise from 1996.
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls Releasing this Week

Avernum 2: Crystal Souls features:

  • Epic fantasy adventure with over 40 hours of gameplay.
  • An enormous underworld, with multiple nations and alien cultures.
  • Over 100 towns and dungeons.
  • Three separate game-winning quests. There are many ways to fight the invaders. Do just one of them or all three!
  • Unique races and settings make Avernum different from any adventure out there.
  • Dozens of side quests and hundreds of magical artifacts.
  • Rich game system with over 60 spells and battle disciplines and a multitude of beneficial character traits to choose from.
The end has come. Years ago, your people were imprisoned in the underworld, doomed to end their lives in the darkness. Then that was not enough. Your captors have invaded your caves, determined to kill you all. They are winning the war.
Spiderweb Software, Inc. announced today their return to their epic Avernum saga, to continue the story of the underworld Avernites and the war against their oppressors. Avernum 2: Crystal Souls is the second chapter in this indie fantasy role-playing saga, a tale of desperate exiles and their battle for survival and a land to call their own.
The surface world is commanded by the tyrannical Empire, the eternal power that controls all known lands. Everyone who spoke out, misbehaved, or didn’t fit in was cast into the dark, volcanic pits of Avernum, far below the surface. They were meant to die. Instead, these exiles survived, gained power, and struck back. They assassinated the lord of the Empire. Now the Empire will have revenge. They have invaded Avernum, seizing cave after cave and destroying your people. Your land needs a hero, and it needs it now. If you can’t find a way to stop them, and soon, you are all doomed.
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls is an epic fantasy role-playing adventure in a unique, massive world, full of strange caves, cunning dungeons, and the alien inhabitants of the underworld. Fight to complete up to three game-winning quests. Explore a massive nation of tunnels and caverns, seeking over 100 towns and dungeons. Master over 60 spells and battle disciplines and hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Avernum 2: Crystal Souls is a total, ground-up rewrite of the award-winning indie hit Avernum 2. It will be open for adventuring in Q4, 2014.

Here is the official game trailer:


More information is available on the official website or the Steam page.

Related: Avernum 2: Crystal Souls Dated for January 2015

Source: Press Release

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