Sang: The Desert Blade

dang i remember seeing an ad for the kick starter for this about a year or two ago on yiffer nice to see its playable now

This game is very good!!!

I really love this game!

i've only beaten the game once with the warrior god and the ending made me really confused but intrigued for what could come next

i accidentally duplicated the music files and fsr it wont delete, any idea on how to solve this problem?

PS: love the game btw

I really love the demo even though I haven't really got into souls games. It feels like I'm missing a lot of good games :(

Is it ok if I share the vid here?

Really liked the game. I'm always excited when someone tries to mix things up in the magic department, gives me warm, nostalgic feelings for Arx Fatalis and stuff like that. Its cool to input your own spell combinations. Aside from that, controls are responsive and combat is crunchy and on-point. It never stops being hilarious to lure enemies onto traps. Maybe make them a bit smarter, so that isn't a failsafe go-to for any hard battle? Dunno, just nitpicking, the demo is solid in concept, and it feels like a living world, with the animal folks worshipping the Earth Mother, sacrificing blood and body to the great womb. So good luck onwards! Looking forward to seeing more of this.

I loved the demo and style of the world! It was great fun and brought me back to memories of playing DS2 on my dad's Xbox and raging at the Dragonslayer ^w^ Can't wait to play the full game! the only thing that pains me about it is that I cannot fund the kickstarter anymore >^< would've loved a guide to the world and the other goodies, need more Sang!

PS: After writing this comment I've decided I need more Sang in my life to an absurd degree, would it be possible in the slightest of chances to be able to buy the kickstarter content somehow? This has become my new obsession and I need more.

I hate souls games...yet I also played all the Souls games from Demon Souls to Elden Ring... Have I beaten any of them? Lol nope...
The games are fantastic! I just hate getting angry...but I also really like a challenge...
To put it simply, it's not the game's fault. It's merely a skill issue. This is a great demo and I love it so far, but also at the same time I hate it with a burning passion and I look forward to the full release.

What an excellent demo! The art, character design, music, world and story are all excellent and I can't wait to see how you build on all of it!

In terms of the gameplay, I think there is a lot of great stuff here. Even in just the demo, I love the build variety! Starting builds, different weapons, different accessories and effects, talents. All stuff I love.

Attack, heavy attack, spell, parry, and dodge are simple but effective core features for a combat system and I had fun with it. The effects on a successful dodge/parry are also great, firstly because it lets me know I was successful, and also it because it feels satisfying. There was also a good amount of enemies with different attack patterns and even a boss, which I thought were all a good difficulty. I also enjoy the spell system, and liked that you use magic in combat and for exploration. Even found a secret spell which is fun!

As for things I'd like to see improved, it's all stuff I'm sure you have your eye on changing anyway. One or two enemy attacks were a bit awkward to parry, and the stamina felt a little too restrictive. Its also a little awkward casting a spell in battle. For a game still in development, these are very small points.

I'm very impressed and had a lot of fun! Sad I missed the kickstarter, but I'll definitely be following this project from now on. (Also I can't find any donation links anywhere, but would love to chuck a few bucks your way to support you!)

Great art style btw!! Really hope to get farther into the game soon.

One concern: I'm definitely not a grinder but this game gives me major Crypt of the Necrodancer vibes with how hard the enemies are. I chose Ygraku as my god, so that definitely hinders my situation, my fault for that tho lol. The enemies doing so much damage so early on in the game is a bit much for new players, in my opinion.

The dungeon in the third checkpoint seems a bit clustered, as well.

In general I'm still getting used to this game only having played it for my first time for an hour straight, but I'm really looking forward to playing it again!!

THIS WAS LITERALLY SO MUCH FUN!!! :D 

this is what i've been wanting out of a furry game! I can't wait for new updates!!!

Hi! i just played the new version but i didnt get any new content like in the pictures. i've delete save, quit the game and relaunch it but it still didnt give me new stuff. i've beat the boss like 4 times already :v didnt know what i did wrong

Great game btw!

very good boss fight no damage taken  the demo run still working on it maybe tomorrow whit small commentary 

Hello, I have completed the new version of the game and I would like to ask a question and report a bug

1. This is about bugs, I had such a bug several times that after death in a place with toxins, my ghost is not there, and all points were lost, I have not seen more bugs

And the question is, the content that is shown on screenshots and gifs, is this for higher versions? Since I didn't come across this in version 0.26

Hello, I have just played and finished the Sang: The Desert Blade Demo and enjoyed it very much and I look forwards to playing the full release. However, there are a few critiques I have for it though.

1. Now I play games with a controller as I am not very comfortable using a mouse and keyboard due to how spread out the buttons are and I always have to look down to be sure I press the right button as a result. I'm far better with a controller due to the buttons not being spread out and I know exactly where they are. While I'm thankful the demo works fine enough with a controller, the button prompts in the demo were only matched to the mouse and keyboard with nothing for the controller and because of that I did not know which prompt worked for which button on the controller. There were also certain actions I could only carry out properly with the controller and I could only do it with the mouse and keyboard which was the the items menu and the menu for the Alter where you can spend Soul Points to level up and regain health. Another one was that while with some things like talking with NPCs and interacting with certain objects like pulling levers, entering and exiting rooms, reading those books and other things, whenever I found a chest with an item inside for some reason it refused to open the chest when I used the controller and I could only open it with the keyboard. But since this is a demo and not the final game, I'll give it a pass for now though as I'm certain it will be ironed out eventually. Just so you know I used an Xbox Series X Turtle Beach Recon Controller when playing the game.

2. Another issue was that I lost track of where I was in the section of the dungeon that was very dark so the addition of a map would be nice too or is there one planned for the final release or is there one in the game and I'm just not yet aware of it?

3. Now this is not really an issue with the game itself and more that I just do not know how to save the game or I'm unsure if you even can save the game. Can you save the game and if so where? I tried looking in the pause menu and I did not find anything that let you save it or does the game save automatically or is it The Alters you save at? I played a bit of the game yesterday and reached one of those alters but when I opened it again I could not find a Continue option.

That's all the critiques that I have for now. I'll probably share more if I can remember anymore. I'm definitely going to play more of the demo to see if I can find anymore issues that need ironing out.

Other than that besides some things needing to be ironed out, there is not really a whole lot of problems with the game and is near perfection with what you already have with it in my opinion.

I very much like the artstyle (I can see you are based Hyper Light Drifter appreciators).

Here are my critiques:

1. PLEASE give us an option to disable chromatic aberration and vignette. I absolutely despise these effects.

2. The letterboxing during parries is very jarring and unnecessary.

3. No need for the "Press [button] to do thing" prompts more than once. They're unnecessary and negatively impact the atmosphere. If the player sees a lever, they'll understand trying to press the interact key next to it.

4. The dust effect when sprinting looks a bit silly.

5. Simple blade has a typo in its description ("it's" should be "its"), and Cutlass repeats "Pretty nice sword" over the entire description area.

6. Sang's response to Malak's second book would be better worded as "Whatever these priests were", not "Whatever were these priests" - the latter would be used for questioning.

7. The "spark" effect when cutting objects looks a bit out of place in the artstyle, in my opinion.

8. Similar to Sang's response, the first part of the Symbol of Poison description would be better phrased "Your weapon applies poison damage over time to your target, lasting 4 seconds." Would also be nice to know how much damage the poison does.

First of all, I HATE the boss (probably because I don't want to turn off hard mode). Second of all, this is an amazing game and I love it you did an amazing job. And third of all, is this still being worked on and if so when will the next update/full game come out?

10/10, Great Game so far, keep it up devs!

great game,honestly speaking i was shocked by the first boss that was soooo coooool! anyways i think theres something wrong with the game. The crates are somehow problematic and so do the iventory. When i press c it just dont show out. also sometimes i cant open a crate when pressing e as following the instructions, hope u guys fix this, cant wait the new update. also i hope to add a save and load system, cause each time when i quit the game, i need to start from the beginning. great game

Question, will this be on Consoles or Mobile? I don't usually use my computer.

The pixel art is really beautiful, there are many wonderful details and great gameplay. Amazing game, congrats.

Dude this is AMAZING, do you think there might be multiplayer sometime in the future

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Is the game on xbox?

amazing game, I was blown away by every aspect of it.

Absolutely stellar demo for what looks to be a promising as heck game, super excited to see where it goes!

Android version is planned or impossible because of the controls (too much buttons)? 

loved it! cant wait for the full release!

i think is a game with big potential, but i cant play becouse while i am walking i cant move my cursor :( its a shame i cant play only with my keyboard , i will be happy to play if you fix that. any ways good job,  i wish to be notice if you fix that pls (i dont know if i write well , i am learning english)

This game is amazing. For a demo this is the most polished 2d souls-like game I have ever played. The atmosphere was really mysterious and a little spoopy and the gameplay although simple really captures the jank combat of the souls games. The enemies were neither difficult nor easy. The demo boss was truly amazing. In my video it actually took me 5 tries because I had to remember that dodge roll exists. Even after defeating the boss it really gave me that sense of accomplishment. I cannot find any faults in this game and I can't wait to see the full game! Good luck on completing it :D!!

Just uploaded my playthrough of the demo on my youtube channel! This demo is awesome, really interested to see what the full game is like! Here is the video: 

I love this so much! I can't wait to see how evolves when the full game is released! I hope you charge money for it, cause I'll gladly crack my wallet open for this. 

(p.p.s. i just realized that the review was supposed to go together with the rating. uh, it won't hurt to have it here too would it?)

I just finished playing the demo and it looks like it has a lot of cool things going for it! the spellcasting is very interesting and I like the way parrying and dodging works. however, I will say that there are some things I'm not fully fond of.

firstly, the hitbox of the strong attack is a bit too unforgiving I feel. I've been right in front of an enemy and still miss the strong attack. I can see that the sword was going to miss them by an inch, but I feel it can be a little more forgiving, since it's very hard to actually make use of the strong attack at all as is since sang can't attack diagonally, the strong attack ends up missing by a hard over half of the time.

the hyper armor/super armor/poise of the big enemies makes sense, but I feel it could be indicated. it'd cause little harm to the game since it seems to be content with showing health bars and stamina bars very clearly. I don't see why a white outline around a character with poise would hurt. though I could just be an idiot forgetting that they have super armor

Of course, there's also the fact that different weapons don't have different models/movesets. This may be a demo thing, but in case it isn't i really feel at least a slightly altered model could be nice or even a different moveset for some weapons like the way dark souls handles straight swords and curved swords. I didn't find any of the other weapon classes, so I only have the standard swords for reference. still, I hope this isn't too much of an issue. maybe I'll edit this if I end up looking for and finding the other weapon classes

Again, this can be taken with a grain of salt. I'm not experienced in game design, but I hope my feedback can still help even a little. the game looks very promising and I'll be watching with lots of intrigue.

p.s. was this the right place to give my feedback on the game?