Nevergrind PC (Build 24277780)

Define your playstyle with a unique talent tree and discover powerful items! Experience a streamlined dungeon crawl focused on pure combat and treasure hunting! Nevergrind is set in the world of Vandamor, a land inhabited by orcs, giants and dragons! Battle against the dark forces that have sewn chaos and destruction throughout the world. Nevergrind’s gameplay is focused on fighting battles and completing quest objectives throughout four acts. When you first start out, you’re just a recruit helping secure the perimeter of Edenburg. Your commander, Miranda Crossheart, sees your potential and keeps you busy with more difficult quests.

This leads to your first boss encounter at Lanfeld Outpost, Chief Grimden. In a similar fashion, each act climaxes with a tough boss battle through which more of Nevergrind’s story is unveiled to the player. Treasure-finding is a key feature of Nevergrind’s gameplay. Finding rare, powerful items is the best way to make your character more powerful. Since loot is so important in this type of game, a great deal of time and energy was spent designing exciting items. In addition to items with randomized properties, there are over 900 uniquely designed items that can be discovered. You can even find items from 28 different sets which provide passive bonuses as you equip more pieces!

The chain combo system is a core game mechanic which boosts your hero’s rewards! Completing chain combos is a great way to increase experience gained, gold find, and magic find! A chain combo is achieved by killing consecutive monsters without leaving combat. Racking up a huge chain combo requires smart equipment decisions, understanding of the item properties, and a masterful understanding of your hero’s strengths and weaknesses! You can even boost your rewards by fighting multiple enemies at once! Taking on big risks leads to big rewards! It’s essentially a single-player, combat-focused version of EverQuest without the constant traveling between encounters.

Nevergrind borrows sound effects, classes, races, ability names, and other elements directly from EverQuest, while simplifying and rebalancing them to better suit solo play—perhaps a bit too much in some cases. The number of enemies fought at once can be adjusted, along with when they appear, allowing the difficulty and pacing to be customized. Since chaining battles is heavily encouraged, much of the challenge comes from managing resources efficiently to survive as many consecutive fights as possible. Originally Nevergrind released as a browser game, this version was brought to Steam following community demand and also served as an inspiration for Nevergrind Online.