Explore like Skyrim, fight like Baldur’s Gate: New role-playing game on Steam wants the best of both worlds

Archaelund is a rather classic role-playing game, but the change of perspective gives it a very special twist

Do you like turn-based battles but prefer to roam a fantasy world from a first-person perspective? Then Archaelund might be the right role-playing game for you. Developer 4 Dimension Games is trying to combine both in one game and is launching Early Access on Steam.

Archaeland on Steam

All important information about the Early Access of Archaelund:

• Start date: It already started on January 8, 2024.
• Costs: The Early Access version costs 20 euros. According to the developer, the price may increase during the test phase.
• Content and scope: You can freely explore a section of the map and complete quests, talk to NPCs, search for treasures and fight battles. 4D Games expects a good 15 hours of gameplay, you are limited to the first chapter of the main quest and a maximum level of 4. You can choose from five races, 15 classes and a variety of talents, abilities and spells at the start.

Watch the trailer for the Early Access launch of Archaelund:

How to play Archaelund

At the beginning you create a party of two to four characters. You choose from races such as human, goblin or minotaur and select acareer – this is the name of the game’s classes.

At the beginning, only simple careers such as bandit or pilgrim are available, but these can later lead to an assassin or archmage. You can use talents, skills and spells to build up the combat characteristics of your party members.

The special thing about Archaelund is the change of perspective. While you explore the open game world in the ego perspective and in real time enemies trigger a turn-based combat system for which you switch to the iso perspective . This is intended to combine immersive exploration like in Skyrim with the tactical battles of Baldur’s Gate.