Arken (Extended Demo)

Welcome to the world of Arken

 [Release of full version is to be expected for early 2025]

In this retro inspired Zelda-like you take the role of the hero to save not only one but two worlds.

'The day has come for you to take the Guard's Trial, young knight!', the king of Liones Castle spoke to me. Back then, I didn't know it was the day my quest to save Arken started. So I left the castle and went South to the Cave of Trials.'

The extended Demo is here!

This new demo contains all the content from before with the following additions:

• 2 new main dungeons
• 1 required mini dungeon
• lots of new caves
• Flip world access
• new sub locations like the farm and Aquara's Domain
• Bottle items
• Bug Net
• Fishing (although not in the final state)
• new map display
• new GUI layout (with explanations to each item in inventory)
• Item Randomizer

Item Randomizer Mode notes

In this mode, some changes to the Story Mode were made to ensure a fast start and an more open world from the beginning. More on this will tell you the NPC in your house when you play this mode (to avoid Story spoilers here).

Some restrictions were made, some features are still not ready, so this mode will be drastically improved in the full version. Planned features are:

• Hints on item locations
• Ingame map tracker
• Enemizer
• Keysanity

Which input methods are supported?

Currently the game supports keyboard and XBOX-controllers. You are able to configure the keys / gamepad buttons in game. To reconfigure the key mapping, select options in the file select screen and navigate to the input device you want to configurate.

This table contains the default input settings:

Button	Keyboard	Gamepad (Xbox)	Actions performed
	Arrow-Up	DPad-Up	Move player, navigate menus
	Arrow-Down	DPad-Down	Move player, navigate menus
	Arrow-Right	DPad-Right	Move player, navigate menus
	Arrow-Left	DPad-Left	Move player, navigate menus
	A	Button 1 (A)	Player talk, lift, roll etc, confirm in menus
	S	Button 2 (B)	Use Sword, cancel in some menus
	F	Button 3 (X)	Use equipped item 1
	D	Button 4 (Y)	Use equipped item 2
	E	Left shoulder	Quick swap items
	R	Right shoulder	Quick swap items
	Enter	Start	Open inventory, close inventory
	Space	Back (Select)	Open map display

What if I find a bug?

It's very likely you will find bugs. If this is the case, please report this to me, so I can improve the quality of the future builds. You can use itch.io or contact me via Twitter: https://twitter.com/libra_bits

Hey, I like this game! How can I support its developement?

I really appreciate any kind of feedback! Do you have some ideas how to make the game better? Did you find things that you didn't like? Please tell me! Also, a donation is very much appreciated and helps improve the game's graphics and audio quality!

Also, join the Discord: https://discord.gg/VruPcKtNWP

Credits:

Music & Sound effects by RyanAvx (Twitter: @RyanAndBreezy, Itch.io: RyanAvx)

Thank you very much for playing! Hope you enjoy!