

Every section in the game has challenges that the player can go after to receive special rewards like more items, extra gold or bonus experience. Victor Vran’s maps for the first time in recent ARPG memory are completely set pieces and while this may be a shock to ARPG fans, there is a reason for this. From there it’s time to go monster killing and Victor Vran has a few surprises for you. If you play on normal, those hexes will become available over time and you can choose which to have on while you play. Loot progression is less about finding higher quality items, but improving the ones you likeĪfter a brief tutorial, you’ll be able to select between normal and hard mode which determines overall difficulty and starts you off with Hexes: Negative Passives that impact the game but will reward you with more gold and greater items. However Victor Vran doesn’t stop there with the amount of items to equip: There are different potions, armor, Destiny Cards which act as passive buffs and you can choose different special attacks to unleash when your overdrive bar is full everything I just mentioned can be dropped through play or bought at stores. Just like any ARPG, weapons are randomly generated and come in different rarities which can have special effects like increased damage. Your outfit affects how you build up overdrive which is used to power your special skills and they also have special modifiers.

After a few levels of play, you’ll unlock the ability to equip 2 weapons which lets you switch between them with a push of a button essentially giving you 4 special skills to make use of at one time. The special skills are what define the weapon such as the hammer that lets you create AOE slams for heavy damage and life steal. Every weapon type has three skills assigned to it a normal attack and two special. Instead, your gear and equippables are all customizable and offer a lot of different strategies and builds to the player. Starting out, you won’t have much in terms of gear and there aren’t really “classes” in the same sense as Diablo, where the class dictates skill progression and strategy. The first thing you’ll noticed about Victor Vran is that it’s a lot more action heavy compared to titles like Diablo 3 you can run, jump, wall jump and dodge out of enemy range. Victor Vran is a monster hunter who has arrived at a mysterious city besieged by monsters in search of his friend and must help the queen take things back while fighting lots and lots of undead monsters.

While the game may not look like much when compared to Diablo 3 or Grim Dawn, there are a lot of great things under the hood that make this game very interesting. Victor Vran recently came out of early access and is an attempt by developer Haemimont Games to take on the big boys of the ARPG genre.
