Crit Happens is a free online fantasy RPG for Windows, and it's early in development. You don't pick a class. You pick your gear, and every piece you wear gives you a spell. You can make that gear yourself, sell it to other players, or fight for it with friends.
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No classes. Your gear decides.
There are 8 kinds of weapon and 20 pieces of armour. Each weapon gives you 2 spells and each armour piece gives you 1, so you can use 36 spells in all. Change your sword for a spear, or your helmet for a different one, and your spells change with it.
Mix and match however you like. Heavy plate and a taunt make you a tank. Light leather and a katana that slips behind enemies make you something else. Your gear also changes how much enemies want to hit you, and every enemy remembers who hurt it most.
Every fight on nine keys
Keys 1 and 2 are your weapon's spells. Keys 3 to 6 are the spells from your helmet, chest, legs and boots. Keys 7 to 9 are yours, for potions or anything else from your bag. Spells only have cooldowns, with no mana bar to watch.
Fights are in first person, against more than 30 kinds of enemy, including elites and bosses.
Make it yourself
Mine ore and chop wood, smelt the ore into bars at a furnace, then forge weapons and armour. Your crafting skill goes from 0 to 100. The better you get, the better your work turns out, from Crude up to Masterwork.
Everything you make carries your maker's mark. Gear wears down as you use it, and you can repair it.
Better with friends
Form a party of up to five people. The party shares the experience from kills and the credit for quests. You can also found a guild for 1000 gold. Party members and guildmates can't hurt each other, even in PvP areas.
Some fights are worth bringing friends to. Bosses such as the Goblin Chieftain and the Ancient Treant hit hard.
A world that keeps moving
Day turns into night. The townsfolk have their own stories and quests for you. Your level goes up to 20.
An AI plans world events and day-long campaigns, and a human game master checks each one before it starts. How the AI game master works.
Also in the game
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A market run by players
Shops don't buy your loot back. Post it on the market board, set your own price, and see what similar items have sold for. You can also trade face to face, send mail, and keep things in the bank.
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PvP only if you choose it
PvP areas ask you before you go in. If you die there, you drop what you're carrying, except plain shop gear. Large ore veins have a PvP circle around them, so the best ore can be fought over.
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A big world
There are over 30 zones, linked by roads and passes. A minimap, a zone map and a world map help you find your way.
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Play your way
You can change every key, choose from graphics presets, and change how the interface looks.
Where the game is now
- This is an early test build. Expect bugs and rough edges.
- Combat balance is still being worked on, so numbers will change.
- Characters may be reset before the closed alpha.
- It's Windows only for now.
- The game updates itself whenever there's a new version.
Start playing
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Download the installer
Download Crit Happens for Windows. The installer is small, and it downloads the rest of the game for you.
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Run it
The installer isn't signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognise it. Click More info, then Run anyway.
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Create your account
Sign up here. The Create a new account button in the game opens the same page. You need an email address, and you must be at least 16. Then log in to the game with your account name and password.
Join the community
Chat with other players, report bugs and hear about updates first on the Crit Happens Discord server.
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Controls
These are the default keys. You can change every one of them in Options.
- W A S D
- Move
- Shift
- Sprint
- Space
- Jump
- Mouse
- Look around
- Left click
- Attack
- 1 to 9
- Hotbar: spells and items
- E
- Talk, pick up, open
- R
- Draw or sheathe your weapon
- I or Tab
- Inventory and equipment
- K
- Spells
- L
- Quest log
- N / M
- Zone map / world map
- P / G
- Party / guild
- Enter
- Chat
- F1
- Help
- F2, - =
- Music on or off, quieter, louder
- Esc
- Close windows, game menu