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Eternal Step

Eternal Step

Released: 10/16/2015

So what is Eternal Step? It's our answer to MMO grinding. While playing a lot of MMOs we came across people who would just grind to max level, so we sat and pondered this and asked the great tree of knowledge "why do people do this tree?" Well it didn't answer - it's a tree... they don't speak unless they're from Middle Earth. But we had the idea of taking that concept and building around it - we wanted to create a game that a player could keep playing and it would increase in challenge while rewarding the player. Thus we threw loot at people and then add random elements and took some of our fave games for inspiration, like Dark Souls, and Bullet Hell games, and MMO raiding, and other Rogue-like lovableness. That all came together and Eternal Step was born. It's a Rogue-like game that's built around fighting floor after floor of enemies while equipping yourself with more weapons, more skills and leveling up, with epic boss fights and rare monsters.... and trading cards all stitched together.

So what is Eternal Step? It's our answer to MMO grinding. While playing a lot of MMOs we came across people who would just grind to max level, so we sat and pondered this and asked the great tree of knowledge "why do people do this tree?" Well it didn't answer - it's a tree... they don't speak unless they're from Middle Earth. But we had the idea of taking that concept and building around it - we wanted to create a game that a player could keep playing and it would increase in challenge while rewarding the player. Thus we threw loot at people and then add random elements and took some of our fave games for inspiration, like Dark Souls, and Bullet Hell games, and MMO raiding, and other Rogue-like lovableness. That all came together and Eternal Step was born. It's a Rogue-like game that's built around fighting floor after floor of enemies while equipping yourself with more weapons, more skills and leveling up, with epic boss fights and rare monsters.... and trading cards all stitched together.

So what is Eternal Step? It's our answer to MMO grinding. While playing a lot of MMOs we came across people who would just grind to max level, so we sat and pondered this and asked the great tree of knowledge "why do people do this tree?" Well it didn't answer - it's a tree... they don't speak unless they're from Middle Earth. But we had the idea of taking that concept and building around it - we wanted to create a game that a player could keep playing and it would increase in challenge while rewarding the player. Thus we threw loot at people and then add random elements and took some of our fave games for inspiration, like Dark Souls, and Bullet Hell games, and MMO raiding, and other Rogue-like lovableness. That all came together and Eternal Step was born. It's a Rogue-like game that's built around fighting floor after floor of enemies while equipping yourself with more weapons, more skills and leveling up, with epic boss fights and rare monsters.... and trading cards all stitched together.

Critics
59
Steam
64

Score Breakdown

58.8

Critic Average

4 reviews

64

Steam User Score

75 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-5.3
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
-5.3

Average of both sources

Review Timing

4 launch window (100%)0 late (0%)