With a mix of RPG, strategy, city-building, and a tower defense game, Darfall is sure to test the players’ mettle and resolve in their quest to hold back the tide of darkness.

During the day, you must grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and build up your settlement. At night, you must survive the hordes of undead.

The undead hordes threaten the land. Your home stands as a beacon of hope and light in the darkness against them. Defiance against their whims draws their ire, and now they come to extinguish that which you protect.

As the lone hero, become the strongest that you can be. Arm yourself with weapons of epic craftsmanship, and master powerful arts so that you alone can stand against the encroaching evil.

Each night that the forces of evil are thwarted, the more dangerous and numerous the nighttime raids become.

Paradox Arc and SquareNite released a new demo for Darfall. The demo offers revamped graphics, an update to the Survival mode as well as a brand-new Scenario Editor.

With the editor, players can unleash their creativity to design custom maps and game modes, adding further depth and replayability. The demo is available on Steam now for free.

The Scenario Editor offers freedom and creativity to players by allowing them to design and make their own maps, quests and even game modes. The editor has easy-to-use tools for editing terrain, triggers, quests, creating custom items and much more. Players can also share their creations via the Steam Workshop.

The new demo focuses on two of the three main pillars of the game - The Survival Mode and the Scenario Editor (We'll talk more about the Campaign later!). Read below to get a better idea of what to expect this time!

Survival Mode:

The new Survival Mode comes with a number of brand new gameplay improvements:

• A new hero unit Ardan: n Aran’thal archmage with powerful abilities.
• Edgescar Survival Map: Our first survival map, set in the grassland biome.
• Nightly Undead Invasions with increasing challenges each night.
• Orc Raids, that grow in intensity the richer and more prosperous your town becomes.
• Dark Pylon Waves, which need to be proactively destroyed, to control the amount of enemy forces.
• Class-specific quests for the hero Ardan.
• Improved AI, providing smarter enemies, formation and more.
• Exploration: Venture beyond your town to find treasures, events and other adventures.

Scenario Editor:

The brand new addition to Darfall - the Scenario Editor - comes with a number of features:

• Terrain Editor: paint landscapes, raise mountains, place buildings, add special effects, and position units wherever you like.
• Trigger Editor: Use a simple, sentence-based interface, define events, conditions, and actions to control what happens. Have a boss deliver a warning when you enter its lair, or command an orc army to march and attack—your storytelling is limitless.
• Quest Editor: Create custom quests with objectives, subtasks, and markers that appear on the minimap or within the world.
• Modify Objects: Adjust any object’s properties, including health, damage, and AI behavior. Craft your own challenging boss mechanics and interactions to give players memorable encounters.
• Create Custom Items: Design unique items, from resources to hero equipment, and assign them custom icons. Bundle your creations with your scenario files, making it easy to share your custom gear, resources, and more with others.
• Create Map Links: Want to design a campaign or epic RPG? Connect multiple scenarios, preserving player progress between them. Allow heroes to carry over items, levels or any custom variables from zone to zone, giving players a massive world with distinct biomes and quests.
• Steam Workshop Integration: Ready to share your creation with the world? Whether it’s a tower defense map, a puzzle, or an epic RPG across a vast continent, publish your scenario directly from the editor to steam workshop with just a few clicks—complete with a custom thumbnail from the game.

Darfall is coming to Steam Early Access in 2024 with full launch planned for 2025.