Bainok: City of Fighters

You play as a martial artist trying to make ends meet in the anarchic urban hellscape  of Cirqualo. Doing jobs and constantly honing your fighting skills. Pitting yourself against hooligans and monsters (just hooligans in this demo).

Controls

• SPACE/ENTER - Okay, and confirm. 
• ESC/BACKSPACE - No and cancel. Can be used to skip conversations as well. Escape also doubles as the main menu when in the overworld.
• WASD/arrow keys - movement and menu navigation.
• Usually characters in Blue have actually important things to say. The other characters are background elements.

Features

• Solo-RPG: No party. Only you and your fists.
• Training: you don't level up and grow stronger on every field. You have to dedicate time and effort to train. Either by practicing your individual techniques, or training an attribute of yourself like strength.
  
• Combat Condition: Fighting while hungry, exhausted, and generally ailing, means your strikes will be a lot weaker than otherwise. Conversely if you are in top condition, you'll be far stronger too. There is also a big gap between the two if you don't want to bother with being perfectly in balance.

Combat

There is a part by part tutorial in the game, right in your home. Here is the tl:dr; 

• In essence every fighter has an initiative which decides when it is their turn.
• Every attack costs initiative, and every hit does initiative damage to the target, which are respectively called the Haul and the Shock of the attack. 
• Balancing this is the key. You can always check the values of each technique in combat while holding ALT, or outside of combat in your character menu.
• Every attack has a height. Figuring out which height your enemy attacks next, enables you to dodge it, evading all damage, shock, and causing large haul penalties for the attacker. Otherwise just block high and mid attacks.
• Don't spam the same attack, as each successive use lowers its efficiency, and the enemy might get wise to them.
• Heavier attacks have lower accuracy. You should soften up your enemy with lighter attacks first.

Known Bugs

• Night cycle is a bit funky, some NPCs don't disappear when the time of the day says so
• Lights have no appreciation for the depth system, thus some of them look weird at night.

Accreditation

• Music by Karl Casey, Whitebat Audio