DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar

About This Game

This game is still very much a work in progress. We’re dedicated to creating a fun and exciting arcade style action game and we’d love for you to try the demo and give us feedback. We’ll continue to refine and enhance many aspects of the game as development continues.

Please be sure to watch the training video from the main menu for tips on how to play.

Currently this demo has cheats for easy testing for those using Xbox style controllers. You can press the left shoulder button to regain health, and the right shoulder button to gain magic energy.

You can also press the 1 or 2 keys to go directly to those levels from the splash screen.

You’re humanities last hope. Given the magic gauntlet DaemonClaw, which takes unique forms and gives you powers best suited for the foes you face.
high speed side scrolling classic console and arcade style action game.

Bash your way through an array of distinct landscapes, through swarms of unique enemies with your magically enhanced abilities which adapt to the strengths and weaknesses of the enemies you face in each level.

DaemonClaw is being developed for Megadrive, Neo Geo, and Modern platforms, and if you get DaemonClaw here on Steam, you get to play all three versions.

Each version of DaemonClaw will have a unique second playable character. The second selectable character for the Megadrive version is Gareth from Demons of Asteborg!

A sudden coordinated attack by the varied mystical ‘zverkin’ armies has thrown the once peaceful world of Nnar into chaos. You’ve been chosen as man-kinds best hope for survival and given a powerful magical artifact, called DaemonClaw, to aid you in your quest.

You must traverse the lands of Nnar, through many distinct environments, battling a new cast of foes in every land, confront the powerful leader of each zverkin army, and find a way to end this senseless bloodshed as quickly as possible.

Can you survive long enough to bring peace back to your world and uncover what machinations led to this organized onslaught against all the towns of human kind?

Hone and test your skills as the deceptively agile Elrik Eisenfaust. While you can always count on your basic move set for fast evasion and powerful physical attacks, you must also learn to utilize the incredible power of your magic gauntlet, DaemonClaw, which takes on a new form in each land, giving you new magical abilities best suited to vanquish the new foes you face.

Experienced players can discover and master the nuanced elements to the combat. For example, there are many ways to deal with the boomerang blades thrown by the Adleraki (bird-people) of level 1:

While taking place in a epic fantasy world, the intriguing plot unfolds fluidly during the action and level transitions. Like the classic arcade style games of the past, DaemonClaw is intended to be an adrenalin fueled blast. There’s no grinding for experience points or health potions in DaemonClaw and no back-tracking to find additional items. Bosses become easier to beat as you build your actual skill playing the game. DaemonClaw is a continual fast action push towards the goal of ending a sudden war and saving humanity. The goal of the game design of DaemonClaw is non-stop fun and great replay value as a result. The kind of game you’ll want to play again even though you just beat it earlier that same day.

These is the first two bosses you’ll encounter in DaemonClaw. You’ll have to face many others during your quest.

While each level constantly keeps you on your toes with a never ending onslaught of basic enemies, the end of each level is where you’ll face off with the most formidable leader of that land, and to make maters worse, they each control powerful magical artifacts, or, in some cases, maybe the artifact controls them…