Larva Mortus

Larva Mortus is a 2008 video game developed by independent video game developer Rake In Grass. It is a top-down shooter. The source code of the Torque 2D based game was made available by the developer under non-commercial usage terms in 2009.[3][4]

Larva Mortus
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
EngineTorque 2D[2]
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release13 May 2008
Genre(s)Top-down shooter, role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

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.[5][6]

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.[7][8][9]

Reception

The game received mixed to positive reviews.[10][11][12]

References
  1. http://www.gamevortex.com/gamevortex/soft_rev.php/4592/larva-mortus-pc.html
  2. http://www.garagegames.com/best-of-torque/torque-2d#larva-mortus
  3. Source code of Larva Mortus on rakeingrass.com (May 1st, 2009, archived)
  4. larva_mortus_src.zip on rakeingrass.com (2009, archived)
  5. http://www.ign.com/games/larva-mortus/pc-14253834
  6. http://www.giantbomb.com/larva-mortus/3030-26940/
  7. "Larva Mortus Review". Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  8. http://www.realmofgaming.com/reviews/pc/larva-mortus/836.html
  9. http://www.byttenreviews.co.uk/gamereview.php?id=292
  10. http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/larva-mortus
  11. http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/946341-larva-mortus/index.html
  12. http://www.mobygames.com/game/larva-mortus/mobyrank
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