Larva Mortus

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Larva Mortus
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Developer(s) Rake in Grass
Publisher(s) Meridian4 [1]
Designer(s) Frantisek Chmelar
Programmer(s) Pavel Tovarys
Artist(s) Frantisek Chmelar
Composer(s) Borislav Slavov, Victor Stoyanov
Engine Torque 2D [2]
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release13 May 2008
Genre(s) Top-down shooter, role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Larva Mortus is a 2008 top-down shooter video game developed by independent developer Rake in Grass. The source code of the Torque 2D based game was made available by the developer under non-commercial usage terms in 2009. [3]

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Plot

The game is set at the end of the 19th century. It follows an agent who was recruited by a group which specializes on exorcism of various supernatural evil creatures. He is forced to face an evil from ancient times as it plans to capture a powerful artifact of black magic. The artifact was discovered by five adventurers and broken up between them. The agent has to find all pieces before the evil does so. [4] [5]

Gameplay

The player controls a hunter of monsters. Their task is to kill all enemies in a level. There are 30 types of enemies. Missions are randomly generated. There are role-playing elements, such as the player gains experience by killing monsters. [6] [7] [8]

Reception

The game received mixed to positive reviews. [9] [10] [11]

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