Depths of Peril is a single player action RPG (role playing game) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death!
Features[]
- Unique blend of action RPG with strategy elements
- Leader of one warring faction fighting for supremacy
- Must navigate relationships with enemy factions using diplomacy, trade, war, and raids
- Real and hard consequences from a living world
- Breathing, evolving world
- A deep wellspring of history (40+ short stories, 60,000+ words)
- Random, seamless world
Overview[]
Depths of Peril is a single player action RPG (role-playing game) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death!
As a faction leader, you must deal with rival factions through diplomacy, trade, and in time, war. Between battles and raids against other barbarian factions, you build the most powerful faction possible, to withstand your enemies. Building the power of a faction involves exploring a fantasy world, slaying dangerous monsters, solving quests for the city, avoiding deadly traps, and plundering loot to share within your faction.
But in this world, actions actually have consequences, so take care. Annoying the powerful and aggressive Legion of Fear faction will cause them to declare war and destroy you. Ignored Orc uprisings in the Black Forest will cause even more trouble. Protect ally covenants that are being raided, because friends are hard to come by.
System Requirements[]
Windows Minimum specs:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
1.2 GHz Pentium 4 (or other equivalent)
128MB RAM
GeForce 2 (or other equivalent)
150MB of hard drive space
Windows Recommended specs:
2.0 GHz Pentium 4 (or other equivalent)
256MB RAM
GeForce 3 or better (or other equivalent)
Mac Minimum specs:
OS X 10.4 or 10.5
1.5 GHz processor (PowerPC or Intel)
128MB RAM
GeForce 2 (or other equivalent)
150MB of hard drive space
Mac Recommended specs:
2.0 GHz processor (PowerPC or Intel)
256MB RAM
GeForce 3 or better (or other equivalent)
Mac OS X 10.3.9 should also run Depths of Peril fine, but you need OpenAL installed first. You can download the OpenAL installer from Creative.
Depths of Peril also seems to run fine in Linux using Wine. If you are interested in running the game on Linux, please try the demo first though.
As always system specs are very subjective. If you are concerned about whether or not your computer can run the game as well as you would like, please download the Depths of Peril demo and find out.