Redaxium 2

Redaxium 2 is a sequel to Redaxium 1, set in the same large game world. You have six days to appease God by making sacrifices at Divine Shrines; otherwise, God kills you. To break the cycle, earn enough points to win. Hunger, thirst, fatigue, anxiety and adrenaline all affect your character, and the game includes a full day-and-night cycle.

Survival and exploration

Explore large terrains with abstract textures, and manage your survival needs as day turns to night. You can pass time into the future, provided you are not under too many negative effects. Mining, digging, fishing and farming offer ways to obtain certain items more easily; Advanced Mining also lets you gather useful materials to sell. The world includes more plants, and clouds drift in real time, changing position on the hour.

Combat and character builds

Combat is turn-based, and you can fight multiple enemies at once. External Combat lets you use special External Weapons to inflict damage or gain an advantage before turn-based battles. Level up to unlock more powerful skills, customize your character, and build toward melee, elemental or weapon-focused play. Combat Metas allow critical strikes: they fluctuate over time and build through the skills you use, while certain items can boost them.

You can equip weapons and armor, and use skills for roleplaying and battle, including Analyze, Gambling, Steal and Explosives. The game also includes many stats and attributes, such as Sight and Stealth, handcrafted monsters, and Kamikaze units that chase you. Mutant Abominations called the Glitched soar across the lands; they are invulnerable and pass through objects like ghosts.

People and encounters

Talk with humanoid NPCs, recruit and customize companions, and use an interaction menu to engage with most things in the way you choose. The game has over 80 random encounters, including randomized mission providers, shopkeepers, innkeepers and bankers. Free Form Dialog gives your character things to say about some locations you reach.

Choices and progression

Customize your character’s name, picture, description and age. You can choose hardcore mode, where dying invalidates your save, or resurrection mode, where you respawn after death instead of reloading a save. A detailed activity log records information about your actions, and the journal can show finished and unfinished quests.

You can purchase home and guild lots, which offer benefits such as MP regeneration; guild lots also offer hirable companions and cost more. You must find specific NPCs to access particular homes or guilds, so exploring helps you find different options. Lots include They/Them stations that you can activate daily until you obtain a Blood vial to sell. Other additions include perishables that restore MP, a junk-selling NPC outside the bank in Lagorigana, bank doors that close at night at least in Lagorigana, and a bank vault you can buy at least in the first town. Chests have a recycle button for destroying items, and currency uses gold, silver and copper.

Changes from Redaxium 1

Redaxium 2 uses an upgraded version of the Unity3D engine, with some CPU performance increases. It also has improved shadows and lighting, enhanced shaders, smoother-looking character bodies, bump textures on terrain, and redesigned menus including the Stat and Journal menus. UI elements have been realigned, and some menus have new background images.