
2023's Lunacid is one of my favorite indies, dungeon crawlers, and just games, period of the last few years. It's a first person RPG taking after FromSoftware's King's Field series, set in an unforgettable subterranean world festooned with secrets. Creator Kira LLC has just released their next project, a follow-up to Lunacid, but there are more than a few twists to it.
Lunacid: Tears of the Moon is a prequel set thousands of years before the main game, and it was made with appropriately primeval tools: Sword of Moonlight, a game making toolset based on King's Field, released by FromSoft in 2000, and maintained by a dedicated community ever since.