Golden Fall(Indie RPG): Quick Guide.

This is a quick guide of the indie RPG game Golden Fall for Steam.

Golden Fall is a cave crawling Indie RPG(Role Playing Game) following the misfortune of a young golden haired adventurer looking for some coin.
While looking for a quick coin our hero fell into a cave many adventurers have ventured into without ever coming out.
Once our hero has fallen, his only way out is to delve deeper.

The game contains 8 hand tailored levels, no procedural levels mean creative level design instead of generic AI levels.
You will level up, find equipment, gain skills, spells and yes… find gold.

Unique monsters and challenges awaiting. There are no orcs, vampires or your typical fantasy monsters. The monsters are unique to this game and world.

Interface:

Your player, enemies and stats.
Game Screen Guide screenshot Part 1

Elements in game screen:

  1. Right to this label we have our blonde hero. He is currently using a Hand Axe. Our Hero is always in the center of your screen.
  2. This is an enemy with a red square around it. This mean you can attack this enemy by clicking on it with the mouse and he is in range.
  3. These two are also monsters but you do not know if they are friendly with no prior knowledge, unless they attack you or there is a red square around them.
  4. This is a map tile that you saw before but is not currently visible in your field of view.
  5. This is a tile you didn’t reveal yet and you do not know what it contains.
  6. This is your mana bar. Your mana is used for skills or casting spells. The blue stripe is available mana. In this screenshot it is full.
  7. This is your XP(experience points), when the white stripe is filling the entire bar, you level up.
  8. This is your HP(Health Points) or life meter. When this bar is empty, your character dies.

Interactable, NPCs, bonuses and minimap
Game Screen Guide screenshot Part 2

Elements in Game screen part 2:

  1. This is the shop keeper in the game. He has a teal square around him because you can interact with him. Clicking on him with the mouse will open the shop menu.
  2. This is the mini map. You can see the part of the level you already revealed in this minimap. You can zoom in and out of the minimap using your mouse scroll wheel.
  3. To the left of this label is the attack bonuses you have. Currently the character have 1 attack bonus. This increase your chance of hitting an enemy.
  4. This is the armor bonus. The higher this bonus, the harder it is for enemies to hit you with conventional attacks.
  5. This is the amount of gold you carry. Gold allows you to buy items from the shopkeeper.
Weapon choice, armor puppet, spells, skills and consumable.
Game Screen Guide screenshot Part 3

Elements in Game screen Part 3:

  1. To the right of this label is the weapon choice tabs. Each highlighted number represents a weapon you found. You can click the highlighted numbers to switch between the weapons you already own.
  2. This puppet show you which armor parts you have. Purple parts are chain coif or mail. Orange parts are made of steel. Red parts are fire resilient chain coif or mail.
  3. This row is your available spells and skills. You gain skills and spells either by leveling up or by buying them from a shop keeper. Only the spells and skills you have enough mana for will appear here.
  4. These are your consumable items. Consumable items either heal your Health Points or regain your mana. You can have more than one of each of these items(denoted by the number multiplier in the text).

How to play?

You move your character in 4 directions with either the arrow keys or ASWD.

You interact with things or talk to NPCs by clicking on them(with your mouse) when there is a blue square around them.

You attack enemies by clicking on them(with your mouse) if there is a red square around them.

Skills and spells are presented as clickable buttons. They only appear when you have enough mana to use them.

Clicking an item in the row bellow the skills will consume that item.

In each one of the 8 levels your goal is to find the exit to the next level.

Each level has at least one shop keeper.

After reaching the end of each level, your progress is saved and you can continue from the beginning of the last level you reached, with the exact same state you reached there.

If you enjoyed this guide then you can buy this Indie RPG Game, Golden Fall, on Steam!