#dread delusion

[rukafais]

Finally starting a fresh Dread Delusion save after it released so here's my character, name pending. Originally from the Endless Realm and formerly a murderous adventurer-wizard who consumed people for sustenance and as raw material to sustain their experiments in spellcasting until they Broke Reality A Little Bit and became a wanted criminal and then got thrown in jail whoopsie doodle. They're mad about losing all their shit but have chosen to use that time in prison to think about how their excessive murder sprees/kinda serial killer behaviour was perhaps maybe not a great thing to do.

The bandages that bind their mask are a reminder of their vow to never again consume thinking meat.

#dread delusion #rukart #and no it has not escaped them how fucked up it is that like #they got arrested for illegal spellcasting #and not yknow #the copious murder and eating people

[heinn-dev]

Dread Delusion floater duder

#lowpoly #psx #dread delusion

[ritasanderson]

#dread delusion #my art #body horror

[occultopossum]

Love starting w/ the intent to just be a sketch and went ham on it So lil more of my dread delusion pc, the games fun looking forward to more updates

#teak #oc art #artists on tumblr #shitty arts ahoy #dread delusion #OOPS made a few minor tonal edits

[shrimpmandan]

funniest/coolest shit I learned today is that the same guys who published Dread Delusion ALSO published Sucker for Love, Amanda the Adventurer, and My Friendly Neighborhood

#dread delusion #amanda the adventurer #my friendly neighborhood #sucker for love #context: DD is like. morrowind on LSD

[trainwiz]

Playing the new Dread Delusion update, in the span of thirty minutes I went and:

Beat the shit out of a small steam locomotive on legs

Got ran over by a farmhouse on tank treads

Woke up in giant god's sewer

Was informed by the giant chained up god that that was fucking stupid of me but he's going to keep me alive because I seem like a swell dude

Went back aboard the farmhouse on tank treads

Was informed by the farm's captain that if I spoke in non-even-numbered words the farm tank would explode.

Responded by saying "bye" to the farm's captain.

Met an AI god

Told the AI god that I'm an illegal immigrant

The AI god responded by printing out forty pages of machine code in response to that

Told the AI god's vizier about it

Got told by the AI god's vizier that I'm a little bitch for daring to question its divine word

Learned that the AI god is retconning children out of existence because a programmer somewhere forgot a semicolon

This game's pretty good.

#Dread Delusion #Look it's not the Morrowind successor you want but it's still a neat game

[landgraabbed]

currently playing: dread delusion (dev. lovely hellplace)!

man, what a game! you are prisoner xvii, kept captive by the apostatic union. however, as they attempt to capture vela callose of the dark star mercenaries, the mission doesn't go quite as planned, so you are freed in a last ditch attempt at salvaging the mission. shenanigans happen and you are set out to continue the hunt for vela in the open world of the oneiric islands. this is a small archipelago, part of this wacky world in which the surface is an uninhabitable wasteland and humanity lives in floating islands orbited by neuron stars. on top of that, humanity killed their gods and now contends with the fallout. you navigate the world trying to advance your hunt for vela and at the same time deal with the local issues. different factions have conflicting interests and you may navigate those issues as you see fit.

mechanically, character creation and stats are very simple, but work well in this smaller scale rpg. the worldbuilding is dreamlike and eldritch, the leveling mechanic feels very lovecraftian in the sense that you collect delusions through exploration and questing, and use them to improve your core stats (which in turn raises two of the skills). exploration is a core component of this game. it's how you come across quests and find glimmers of delusion in the world. since combat doesn't contribute to leveling, these are your two ways to level up. it is an open world without quest markers which is something i adore (but might be a barrier at first for some people). instead, you can make your own map through a quest, and since the world is small (though very dense) you can easily reference landmarks (which you can also add to your map) to navigate the world. in terms of performance, it plays really well save for a lag spike when the game is loading a new chunk, which happens very infrequently.

i found the art direction to be lovely. it looks like the lovechild of morrowind, king's field, and lsd dream simulator. it's perfect. the low fidelity style pairs well with the eldritch-like design for creatures. the game comes with options to enable/disable the 3d wobbliness that is a hallmark of the ps1 era, which is a boon for the motion sickness prone folks like me. the soundtrack is mostly ambient and i really like it, but i did notice the lack of variety after a while.

what has left the most positive impression on me, together with the ambiance, is the tone of the writing. the worldbuilding grounds the factions and npcs very well, and they are in turn very likeable. the main and side quests alike present situations that i found really interesting to navigate. some choices i found really difficult to make and to digest, which is in my book an excellent sign. i found it all subtly nuanced and incredibly compelling in a very understated way.

#p #cat's gaming library #dread delusion #i think (as most games that impact me like this) this is one of those games that isn't for everyone. #but i couldn't recommend it enough for the people that read this and get curious #and it's very well priced!! i'm surprised the price didn't go up at the end of early access

[askzloyxp]

"your majesty, there's Ghost in your blood CRYPT, you it should do cocaine this potion about it!

#dread delusion #penitent Thaw #Queen Of Silver #zloyxp

[beetleslap]

Go check out the game Dread Delusion, this shit rules

I'm really proud of the composition here, this is the most ambitious piece I've made for the time it took to actually make it, wow!

#dread delusion #rpg #fanart

[sasquach-scratches]

Idk who's bright idea it was to constantly compare Dread Delusion to the Elder Scrolls in prerelease media but I blame it for the amount of new people that seem to believe it's a bloated open world game in the same vein as recent TES with like factions and stuff before they're disappointed

Like I guess in terms of it being an alien world with a lot of lore to discover, yeah, it's kind of like Morrowind but that's (and Mushroom) where the similarities end.

#dread delusion #elder scrolls #the general trend of describing games as X meets Y makes me itch #saw the same effect with Gloomwood where the lead dev had yo deal with a lot of Thief fans #to the point where he began to shy away from referencing it anymore in spite of the inspiration #like yeah the people that blindly get into games based on a blurb are dumb but the sheer number of them is a pain

[leventdraws]

Dread delusion tribute.

#dread delusion #indie games #retro gaming #retro aesthetic #rpg #2d art #digital art #digital illustration #digital drawing #digital painting

[heinn-dev]

Dread Delusion

feathery friend

#dread delusion #lowpoly #3d

[ritasanderson]

The Duchess

#dread delusion #my art

[occultopossum]

This man is like a bug to me And some of him and Emil (Who belongs to the bestie) Tall freak man with nervous dog energy and a knife freshly outa prison what could go wrong ~~my lil dread delusion pc character cause god games like that get such a hold of me~~

His bg is Apprentice/Aetherist/Ambitious caster

#dread delusion #teak #oc art #BNHJMKL I FEEL SILLY POSTING HIM IN THE TAG BUT GRIPS #i do love making pcoc's so #also top center is vex/lunacid oc cause man two mages from equally fucked up worlds

[gamesline]

Our staff list of the day comes from Franny with a numbered list of 7 games in no particular order. What's real? What isn't? Click here to find out!

#a space for the unbound #baldur’s gate 3 #chants of sennaar #diablo iv #Dread Delusion #feature #franny #goty #melon journey #Season: A letter to the future. #goty 2023 #game of the year

[thehushedcasket]

The Wikkan and the Godling (please play dread delusion, it’s so good)

#dread delusion #fantasy oc #original fantasy #digital art