Sacraboar posts

Sacraboar is a capture-the-pig real-time strategy game. This playable demo includes 1 skirmish map, 6 tutorial missions, and 3 (out of 4) spell types, making for 12 out of 16 spells. System requirements are shown after the jump. The full game is available for purchase through digital retail outlets like Steam and Impulse.
"You command your units like you do in well-known real-time strategy games. Your goal is to get the enemy's pig trophy and protect your own from being stolen. To take the enemy's pig trophy you have to send one of your units to the enemy's pig stand to grab it. When the unit has taken the trophy you need to send it back to your own pig stand to score.

The enemy can stop you by killing the capper (the unit that carries the pig), or he can prevent you from scoring by grabbing your pig. You can only score when your pig is on its stand.

When a pig-carrier is killed, he drops the pig. You can return it to your own pig stand by having one of your units walk over it - the pig will then be teleported back to its stand. When one of your units touches a dropped enemy pig, it will automatically grab it and be a new capper."

Download Sacraboar Single Player Demo (171 MB)

After a massive amount of new games last week, things settle down just a bi for this week. However this week also includes a game which could get some Game of the Year nods before 2009 concludes

Dragon Age: Origins: BioWare's return to a straight fantasy RPG has been long awaited by PC fans and this week they get their wish in this massive single player title. The game will come with some downloadable content, including an all new quest, for free for the first copies of the game to be sold.

Yep, that sentence is correct. The game is centered around you protecting your . . .pig . . . while also trying to capture your opponent's . . .pig. Is it just us or does this sound an awful lot like a game that Monty Python might come up with in their heads? In any case, Sacraboar (love the title too, by the way) has both single, skirmish and multiplayer modes (LAN and Internet) and will be released on November 6 via Impulse and Steam. You can pre-order the game now for 25 percent off its planned $19.99 price and get instant access to the game's beta test.