Every once in a great while there comes a game with a seemingly endless amount of love put into it. Lucah: Born of a Dream is one of these games. As you likely saw from the images on the store page, the game is drawn in this almost chalkboard style, visually distinguishing it immensely. It also helps to contrast with the game's subject matter, which is often very dark. The game heavily discusses religion, human morality, and also serves as an excellent allegory for being transgender. This game will disturb you to at least some degree, hitting you in the deepest recesses of your heart, that highly emotional feeling that leaves an impact on you. This game is also VERY difficult. You will die, and the game punishes you for dying and not using your resources properly. There is a steep learning curve you will have to accustom yourself to, but it feels incredible to get into a groove in this game. The game plays like the tags would suggest, it is very fast paced, and you spend combat trying to break your opponents' defenses to begin to deal substantial damage. To do this you gain abilities you put into presets, a main ability, and a secondary which changes the function of the primary attack. You also have companions to keep up pressure when you run out of stamina. There is an optional parry system, though it becomes exponentially more useful later into the game when dealing with stronger and stronger bosses.
I cannot stress enough how good this game is, and how little justice I can give it. The team who made the game poured their very hearts and souls into this game ABSOLUTELY deserves all the support they can get. There are few games I can recommend to the same degree as Lucah: Born of a Dream. This game will kick your ass in the gameplay, then do the same to your emotions in the same breath. I have only come across a few pieces of media that made me cry, and this is one of them.
Please, buy Lucah: Born of a Dream today. It is a beautiful, fun, thrilling, and emotionally gripping story all in one that while I can't guarantee you will love as much as I do, you should at least experience for yourself.
Just remember,
everything will be okay.