FromSoftware’s Dark Souls inspired so many other developers that it spawned an entirely new genre, but its older first-person RPG series, King’s Field, hasn’t enjoyed nearly as much attention. In recent years, games like Lunacid have proved that you can still make an excellent RPG while sticking close to King’s Field’s decades-old formula, and now a new take on the first-person RPG shows there’s still plenty of life in the old-school genre.
I first encountered Verho — Curse of Faces during the most recent Steam Next Fest. The demo begins well into the game, where your character is equipped with magic and an assortment of weapons to fight the hordes of walking plants and frog monsters occupying a small, swampy village.
