Indie publisher Nordcurrent Labs has announced that its RPG Greedventory, developed by Ukrainian studio Black Tower Basement, is now available on PC via Steam and GOG.

If you put Monty Python and Dark Souls in a blender, you’d have Greedventory. It’s all about surviving multiple runs to satisfy your character’s hunger for gold and loot. It blends humour and irreverence with souls-like and RPG mechanics.

Heroes are forged from bucket helmets and wooden planks in Greedventory, there are no knights in shining armour pulling swords from stones here. Confront evil magicians, defeat titanic bosses, and uncover ancient treasures while navigating an outlandish world packed with crass humour that takes aim at generic fantasy settings and tropes.

Players will explore moonlit caverns, and delve into spooky forests, all of which are presented in a highly stylised pixel-art design that provides a visually striking, yet dark, backdrop for the adventure that awaits. There’s no way of knowing what lurks in the shadows, and a failure to match the challenging obstacles that lay ahead will see players begin their journey anew, helmet and plank in hand.

Greedventory steps away from the well-trodden controls of its contemporaries, instead letting players wield their keyboard and mouse in an innovative real-time combat system that relies on reaction times and hand-eye coordination.

Players will attack and evade using the mouse before sending a volley of spells towards enemies using the keyboard. Even the most battle-hardened knights will fall at the hands of the dangerous enemies that await them, but every death is an opportunity to learn from failure and then master Greedventory’s rewarding combat system. While the challenge and consequences of dying may remind you of Souls-like staples, Greedventory injects the genre with a refreshing dose of whimsical charm and hilarity that sets it apart.

The game has been developed by the Ukrainian team Black Tower Basement. During development, they have overcome many challenges, including working during the pandemic and living and working in an active warzone. The team has chronicled their experiences in a behind-the-scenes documentary titled ‘Greedventory Dev Diary: Game Development Under the Presence of War’ available to watch now.

Greedventory is playable in English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese. To keep up with the latest Greedventory news, you can follow the Black Tower Basement team on Twitter and the official Nordcurrent Labs Twitter.

In the meantime, check out the trailer below: