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''Overgrowth'' is an
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released by
Wolfire Games Wolfire Games is an American independent video game development company founded by David Rosen. Wolfire Games develops video games for macOS, Windows, and Linux. History David Rosen founded Wolfire Games in 2003 to organize his open source ...
available for
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and
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. It was announced on September 17, 2008, and released on October 16, 2017, after 9 years of development and
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. ''Overgrowth'' is the sequel to '' Lugaru'', a 3D
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from the same company. The
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is Turner, an
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with combat skills. The game plays as a 3D third-person action game, set in a
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world of anthropomorphic fighter rabbits, wolves, dogs, cats and rats. The game is designed by David Rosen.


Plot

''Overgrowth''s story takes place several years after the events of '' Lugaru'' and follows the same protagonist: Turner. After avenging the murder of his family, killing the
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wolf, and killing the corrupt king Hickory, Turner refused to take Hickory's place on the throne, instead choosing to leave the
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headless and wander the island in search of some new purpose. The game takes place on the island of Lugaru, an unknown number of years after the fall of the human race, indicated by the ruins of tall man-made structures overrun by vegetation. Lugaru is a chaotic world, inhabited by anthropomorphic rabbits, wolves, rats, cats and dogs living at a pre-industrial level of technology.


Gameplay

''Overgrowth'' is built on the gameplay of its predecessor, '' Lugaru'', and as such uses a hand-to-hand combat system that bases attacks and counters on timing and context using context-sensitive action buttons rather than different key combinations.


Development

Since November 25, 2008,
Wolfire Games Wolfire Games is an American independent video game development company founded by David Rosen. Wolfire Games develops video games for macOS, Windows, and Linux. History David Rosen founded Wolfire Games in 2003 to organize his open source ...
has released new
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s every 2–5 months, containing most of the features so far implemented in the game. These are available to people who have
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ed the game. Overgrowth was released December 17, 2013, as an Early Access title on
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. On January 18, 2017, the game was officially updated to
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status. The game reached 1.0 and was released on October 16, 2017, which had been revealed as the release date a week earlier. On April 21, 2022, the code for the game was released as open-source via GitHub. Parts of the game are scripted with
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. The level editor is included with the game. The game supports free or inexpensive mod tools such as
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.


References


External links

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Official webcomic
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