Hello everyone,
I decided to start sharing our progress here about our upcoming game Dark Queen of Samobor, a side-scrolling action-adventure game heavily inspired by the atmosphere of INSIDE, Slavic mythology, Croatian folk tales and combat mechanics from games like Neva, Dead Cells and Song of Iron.
I'm planning to set up a proper Itch page sometime next week: [upcoming Itch io page] and start doing devlog articles there and share those updates here as well.
The story of the game centers around a knight coming home from a crusade and realizing that an evil queen (inspired by the myths about real-life Barbara of Cili who was accused of practicing witchcraft, alchemy, and sorcery) has woven his homeland into darkness.
You experience this game by stepping into a book, told through 5 chapters, each one in a different biome and with a few new enemy types inspired by Slavic folklore. We aim create a cinematic experience that would give you a similar feel to being a hero in a fairytale.
For now, the game only has a Steam page but you can follow my profile on Itch here for more info as well.
We also have a Discord server you can join, where we post our weekly (or sometimes bi-weekly) progress and will run some playtests soon.
Here are some screenshots:
Latest update
As a starting point here's an update to game's combat and visual effects I did last week (unfortunately I can't upload the GIF here as it's too big).
People commented before how visual effects were not visible enough and the feel of impact wasn't there, so we worked a lot on that in the past few weeks, these are the results. #gaming #indiegames #gamedev #madewithunity [image or embed]
— Aleksandar from Downtown (@b-aleksandar.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Moving forward
I hope you find this interesting and will join us on our journey. Our next milestone is adding a ranged enemy, doing some major improvements to combat, and then finally releasing a demo in a couple of months (and hopefully squeezing in a few playtests before that). As I said, for now, you can follow me here on Itch and you'll be notified once I set up the page for the game.
