Nightmare Reaper News

Hi everyone,

I've been saying that the release date for Chapter 2 of Nightmare Reaper would be at the end of summer, and as you know, summer ends later this month. This won't be enough time to complete it and I felt that I had to tell the community and also give you a hard release date to make up for it.

Nightmare Reaper Chapter 2 will release on october 31st 2020, on Halloween.

Open testing for the beta will start at around two weeks before the release date. All you need to do to participate is to own the game and ask for access to the beta on the Discord.

[h2]Updates[/h2]

Did you watch Realms Deep 2020? It was a crazy boomer shooter event last weekend and it features footage of a ton of retro shooters, including Nightmare Reaper.

Check out a gameplay trailer of Chapter 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK0UgBpPZMc

Did you miss Realms Deep? Day two of the event also contains an interview with lead developer ItBurn: https://youtu.be/EJIso-RKtFU?t=8498

A peek at another location in Chapter 2: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1294650051843653634

An in-progress look at completely revamped blood effects: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1295445286379192326

An appropriate rebranding of the horse water powerup: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1297210721244270592

[h2]How to get more frequent updates[/h2]

Follow @NightmareReape4 on Twitter for up-to-date news and bi-weekly previews.

Join the Discord channel for minute-to-minute updates and to chat directly with the devs.

- ItBurn

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since we've done an update on Steam. Time flies when you're having fun :p.

We've completed most of what Chapter 2 will hold, but still have to finish some level design, the new skill tree levels, enemy sounds, new random events and the general polish and testing. Keep close to our Discord for when the time for testing comes if you want to help us with that.

I know you want to ask, when will Chapter 2 come out? We're still aiming for end of summer.

Here are a bunch of update videos, mostly from our Twitter, which we update every two weeks. It's going to be a big one!

An early preview of the settings of Chapter 2: https://youtu.be/Wa8U6C6S1zw

The first Nightmare Reaper music track released by Andrew Hulshult: youtu.be/KvRpSbtwlgk

A new enemy that will, for sure, never anger anyone: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1266746189824884741

An entirely new way of traversing the levels: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1274356335824510976

A new weapon that's so cool it's unreal: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1279461201353805825

Water physics! https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1284503193951428609

A look at many of the redone enemy sprites by Brouzouf Jones : https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1289619194976378881

[h2]How to get more frequent updates[/h2]

Follow @NightmareReape4 on Twitter for up-to-date news and bi-weekly previews.

Join the Discord channel for minute-to-minute updates and to chat directly with the devs.

- ItBurn

A short while ago we were contacted by the people at Project Warlock. They reached to us and to a couple of dev-friends that launched well received, gore-filled, fps games. The reason? To discuss the possibility of launching a new bundle. One that would collect all of our games and offer it at the best possible price to all the fans of the genre.


Five large email threads, tens of discord messages and some really cool concept art and brainstorming later we arrived at what you see before your eyes: the Quad Damage Bundle featuring the barbaric Elderborn, the half-orcish Hedon, the mysterious Nightmare Reaper and brooding Project Warlock.


Each game is a passion project by the creator, or a small handful of creators that managed to pour their heart and soul into lines of blood-sprayed and dismembered code. Do check them out.


This bundle is both about the chance to get all of these games at a reasonable price, and to discover titles you might not have been familiar with. So, without further ado: introducing four games to satiate your thirst for brutal, high-quality, no-nonsense fps.


Pry the secret of eternal youth from a cursed city as a powerful barbarian in Elderborn.

Take control of a pissed off Half-Orc in her quest to repel a cultist invasion in Hedon.

Solve the mystery of the nameless heroine in a mental asylum in Nightmare Reaper.

Face the minions of hell as a magic-wielding, gun-toting loner in Project Warlock.


Elderborn, Hedon, Nightmare Reaper and Project Warlock combine to bring you:


- 97 power-ups & skills !

- 101 weapons & spells !!

- 107 levels and stages !!!

- 120 enemies & bosses !!!!


Please remember: you only pay for the games you don’t yet own here.
Also: for the best deal you might want to buy Quad Damage Bundle between 01.06-08.06!

Check out these videos if you want to know more about each invidual games.

Project Warlock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_zV01ggxV8

Hedon: https://youtu.be/bTvfhLMNOCQ

Nightmare Reaper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4I7gfhhqbc

Elderborn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZLpRU59mfA

Hi everyone,

It's that time again to get you up to speed with some updates to the game. We continue to work hard on Episode 2. All 24 new weapons are done, the music is done, all the enemies have been designed, but still need art and we're currently working on level design. We've also recorded more voice acting for the main character and we've made many improvements to the game in general.

We have a major announcement, we've hired an artist to redo all enemy graphics and to make the new ones. Say hi to the incredibly talented Brouzouf Jones.

Here's an example of his reimagining of the regular melee zombie:


Here's a comparison to the old version. It's a huge improvement.


Feast your eyes on this entirely new Episode 2 enemy straight from your nightmares:
https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1248989179872038913

Two more things, here's a preview of the Scrap Launcher level 3 weapon:
https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1233783988994445312

And the Dual SMGs:
https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1254062613605912578

See you next time.

[h2]How to get more frequent updates[/h2]
Follow @NightmareReape4 on Twitter for up-to-date news and bi-weekly previews.

Join the Discord channel for minute-to-minute updates and to chat directly with the devs.

- ItBurn

Hi everyone,

Since many of you probably don't follow our Twitter very closely, we figured that we could give you more frequent updates in the form of these news posts.

We've been working on tons of new weapons for episode 2 and wanted to share three of them:

The Railgun
Long range destruction: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1218563699344056320

The Quad Shotgun
Now with useful pushback: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1223637130166980611

The Heavy Minigun
Kickass sound design: https://twitter.com/ItBurn_/status/1228710560679677952

We've currently completed 19 of the 24 new weapons and it was tough to pick which weapon would make it in and which one would have to wait for episode 3. We decided to let the fans decide what the last two weapons would be and this was the result:



The Black Hole Gun was the clear winner, so that'll make it in episode 2, but we'll also add the Akimbo SMGs. Can you imagine the reflection powerup with these akimbo guns?

That's it for now. Keep following the game and giving feedback!

[h2]How to get more frequent updates[/h2]
Follow @NightmareReape4 on Twitter for up-to-date news and bi-weekly previews.

Join the Discord channel for minute-to-minute updates and to chat directly with the devs.

- ItBurn