Alluris

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Summary

Prepare to embark in a journey like no other in Alluris. Play as a reluctant hero or villain to save the world… or just save a colony of bears from some lumberjacks. However you play, you’re sure to walk away with a few crazy stories about your adventure.


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Alluris Reviews & Ratings

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Review by Xbox_Alive [user]
October 20, 2019

Alluris's alludes to, "What if someone mixed Oregon Trail, Dungeons & Dragons, Hearthstone, and Tinder?" Feels a bit misleading. If Alluris isAlluris's alludes to, "What if someone mixed Oregon Trail, Dungeons & Dragons, Hearthstone, and Tinder?" Feels a bit misleading. If Alluris is sexy enough to earn a Tinder comparison, I sure didn't see it in my play of the game.I'd say Alluris is probably better described as a card-based game of choose your type of adventure. You begin the game by picking a gender, race, and starting job for your brave adventurer, which also determines your starting point and beginning stats. From here, you move forward into the game, selecting from a binary choice at every step, as represented by a pair of cards. You swipe left or right to continue with your game, avoiding or instigating conflicts or new adventures, with each choice potentially costing, earning, and also possibly regaining experience levels, gold, health, and karma. You can train in various skills along the way to make certain options easier or at least more likely to succeed, spend gold to gain new options and equipment, and make moral choices to raise or lower your karma, which in turn can close and open new paths in the game. The earliest, easiest choices also result in the most typical sorts of fantasy scenarios; a human fighter, for example, starts off helping their uncle deliver a cart of goods to market before being interrupted by a roadside attack. Each trip through the story, however, gradually unlocks additional starting options for future runs through Alluris, which introduces some dramatically different elements to the stories you can tell. You can begin as a bard, which gives you the option to sell out immediately, grabbing a huge pile of money and a deal to go on a sponsored musical tour throughout distant kingdoms, or play as elves or ratfolk. It should be noted here that Alluris is a roguelike. It's very easy to die, especially if you begin as a class with relatively low base health, and dying sends you back to the title screen with nothing but any progress you've made towards fortunately unlocks. The earliest, easiest choices also result in the most typical sorts of fantasy scenarios; a human fighter, for example, starts off helping their uncle deliver a cart of goods to market before being interrupted by a roadside attack. Each trip through the story, however, gradually unlocks additional starting options for future runs through Alluris, which introduces some dramatically different elements to the stories you can tell. You can begin as a bard, which gives you the option to sell out immediately, grabbing a huge pile of money and a deal to go on a sponsored musical tour throughout distant kingdoms, or play as elves or rat folk. I should mention that Alluris is a rogue-like experience. It's very easy to die, especially if you begin as a class with relatively low base health, and dying sends you back to the title screen with nothing but any progress you've made towards unlocks.Still, it's an absorbing enough experience. Alluris doesn't take itself particularly seriously. It's a fast-paced game that seems like it's designed for people who really enjoy exploring branching narratives. Alluris was made with Unreal by 562 Interactive, a three-person indie studio based in Maryland and partnered with Epic Games. It's 562's second completed project which has been in development since last April. It's spent the summer picking up awards from Dreamhack, GameDaily Connect, Quakecon, and the Rooster Teeth Expo. Definitely one to add to your Xbox One library if you're a fan of the genre.

Game Information
Release Date October 11, 2019
Publisher 562 Interactive
Content Rated E10+ (Everyone 10+)
Game Modes Single player
Genres Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Card & Board Game
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch