Village RPG:

In Brief:
Village RPG is an old school action RPG created with the Unity engine.

You can see a video of game play HERE.

The Game:
The game opens to a configuration window where you can select the screen resolution, the graphic quality (Fastest, Fast, simple, good, beautiful and Fantastic) as well as choose which monitor to have the game displayed on if you have a multimonitor display.

On starting the game you are presented with a character selection screen, with a choice of a swords person or a wizard/witch. Once chosen you wander around the village looking for weapons or magical potions depending on which character you choose; the swordsman can pick up potions and the magic user can access certain items from the swordsmiths shop.

Movement is via the mouse; just click where you wish to move to and your character responds by walking to that spot.

You start off with 1000 gold and can purchase various items from each of the shops. To do this approach the vendor that is standing outside their store. A message will pop up that says welcome to potion shop. Clicking on the downward arrow at the bottom of the message will open up the shops menu, which initially only contains three potions , two HP potions and a MP potion. You can select any of these, then click on the buy option. a small box with an empty field appears with an OK button next to it. Type in the number of potions you wish to buy, then click on the okay button. I would advise you first approach the swordsmith to purchase a weapon and armour first.

You can zoom in closer to your character by using the mouse wheel.


From the potion shops menu, potions cost between 30 to 60 gold depending on which potion you choose to buy, for example a potion that gives you an extra 50 hit points for a limited time costs 60 whereas a small potion of the same gives you 20 hit points. There are a limited number of potions at the start of the game, but I'm assuming you discover other potions later in the game.

The weapon shop has a lot more goods to purchase at the start of the game, but all the best ones are out of your price range. i.e.

Wood Sword.............300 gold.........+5 attack...................................................sell for 150 for Swordsperson.
Steel Sword..............1200Gold.......+12 attack...................................................sell for 600..........for Swordsperson.
BroadSword.............3000 gold.......+25 attack, +12 defence.............................sells for 1500......for Swordsperson.
Wood Rod.................300 gold.........+3 attack, +10 MP.......................................sells for 150........for Magic User.
Magic Rod.................1600 gold.......+20 attack, +20HP, +50MP..........................sells for 800........for Magic User.
Helm.........................500 gold.........+6 defence...................................................sells for 250........for Swordsperson.
Magic Hat.................800 gold.........+4 defence, +15 MP......................................sells for 400........for Magic User.
Bronze Armour.........800 gold.........+8 defence...................................................sells for 400........for Swordsperson.
Silver Armour...........1800 gold.......+14 defence, +30 HP....................................sells for 900........for Swordsperson.
White Robe...............700 gold........+4 defence, +10 MP.......................................sells for 350........for Magic User.
Dark Robe................2000 gold.......+10 defence, +5 attack, +30 MP....................sells for 1000......for Magic User.
Shield.......................400 gold.........+3 defence....................................................sells for 200........for Swordsperson.
Hard Shield..............1500 gold.......+12 defence..................................................sells for 750........for Swordsperson.
Boot .........................500 gold.........+2 defence, +0.5 MS.....................................sells for 250........for both classes.
Gold Ring .................500 gold.........+20 HP, +10 MP.............................................sells for 250........for both classes.

where:
HP = Hit Point (indicator of your health)
MP = Mana Points (indicator of the amount of magic you have to use)

I haven't a clue what MS stands for. Researching it, the closest I could find related to gaming was Mortal Strike from World of Warcraft.

You'll find various weapons, each with its own attack and defence attributes for example the broadsword, that costs 3000 gold has an attack of +25 and a defensive +12 whereas a wooden sword costing 300 gold has an attack of +5 with no defensive capabilities.. Both the swordsman and magic user can buy weapons from the weapons shop, but certain weapons can only be purchased by each one i.e. the wooden rod can only be purchased by the person wielding magic. There are also armour types available from the weapons shop such as an helm or a magic hat, shields, dark robe and some items that can be used by both classes such as the Boots (that gives the wearer +2 defence & +0.5 MS) and Gold Ring (that gives the wearer a +20 HP and a +10 MP).

At the start of the game you should approach the Quest Giver/Mayor of the town who tells you that their village was attacked by a wolf and asks your help in killing it, with a reward if you are successful. Your first quest is to kill 10 baby wolves. You will be given 1000 gold if you succeed. You can accept or decline (cancel) the quest if you wish. If you cancel, you'll still be given the same quest if you approach the quest giver again.

As you progress; earning gold by killing enemies and wild animals as well as completing quests, you can upgrade your equipment. You also go up in levels as you gain experience.

Conclusion:
Overall a nice little action RPG game, with retro styled graphics. If you are already familiar with role playing games such as the Elder Scrolls, Gothic, DragonAge, System Shock, or the earlier Fallout games (1 & 2) and jRPG's such as Baldur's Gate Ultima, Neverwinter Nights & Icewind Dale: Village RPG will seem far too easy and much less interesting. However, if you are relatively new to RPG games, this is probably a reasonable introduction to the genre. Personally I would rather play my old Fallout 1 hard copy or my Steam version of Baldur's Gate or my GOG version of Icewind Dale or even better the more advanced Dungeons and Dragons games, the later Fallout 3 & 4 or the later Elder Scrolls games (Morrowind, Oblivion & Skyrim or the Online version that encompasses all the previous Elder Scrolls games; all of these are vastly superior to this game Not only that, you can likely pick up most of the mentioned titles when on Steam sales, or via sites like CD Keys for not much more than what you'd normally pay for today's game over on itch.io. that asks for $5 or more to add it to your Itch.io account. Of course, Falcoware have given this away for $0 today; so, grab it while you can and check it out for yourself.

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game using Virus Total and it found zero hits from 59 antimalware engines.

The downloaded executable 'may' include some low level adware that only opens your browser once to Falcoware's home page after the game has installed and also places four shortcuts onto your desktop (which can be safely deleted once the game has installed).

The installation does NOT inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to Falcoware's home page following the games installation, it earns Falcoware games some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. Once you've installed the game, there are no more browser redirections. This is because Falcoware removed their installer over a year ago (that installer would show an advert for a game and then open your browser each time you played and then closed the game down.)

You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a6965593b2dbd3e2fb96cefb634db8694711b07e57fedee886a8a93b6f04ea67?nocache=1