You can’t even walk into a Mcdonald’s without hearing about Diablo IV and how utterly amazing it is. Every single person and their mother somehow managed to pick up a pre-order copy and have been playing for almost a whole week now, while the rest of us have had to do grown-up things, like work or suffer through game launch error codes.
If you’ve got a skeleton-smashing itch and you need it to be scratched before Diablo goes on special or you decide to sell a kidney, here are three much less expensive games that might satisfy you:
Halls of Torment
Price R60
Halls of Torment is the birth-child of Diablo and Vampire Survivors. With a late 90s graphical aesthetic and those typical rogue-like survivor mechanics where you must tackle your way through waves and waves of stronger enemies that have been released from the abyss. Create the most optimal build from the random drops and level up your hero the more enemies you slay. The game also offers meta progression, giving us a taste of RPG as well. The game is in early access, but at only R60, it’s definitely more affordable than Diablo 4 right now.
Darkest Dungeon
Price R230
Another from the rouge-lite category but with a completely different gameplay style to Halls of Torment, Darkest Dungeon offers up many skeletons and beasties to slay in a turn-based, party builder package. Attempt to keep your party together while managing disease, stress and the wounded while still trying to out-run the dark and if you manage to do all that and feel like you need a little more, Darkest Dungeon 2 has just hit the shelves and is loaded with even more horrors for you to destroy.
Children of Morta
Price R150
If you’re looking for something more story-driven, then Children of Morta is the corruption-slaying Action RPG for you, with stunning pixel art graphics, fast-paced top-down combat, an excellent levelling system and an epic story about keeping your family together and their sometimes conflicting ideals. Children of Morta also offers up the whole campaign mode in both local and online co-op, so you don’t have to take the challenge on alone.
Have you got anything else on your playlist that’s pushing the boundaries of affordability? Let me know, and I’ll lay more of my suggestion knowledge upon thee.