You can either visit the game’s official website, or you can trot over to Desura.

Hence the correct genre placement as side-scrolling RPG/RTS.įor more information and download Epic Inventor you have two options. Your job as inventor is to protect friendly NPC’s and yourself from enemies with your many inventions. You should get the idea from that with any luck. What if there were only a select number of structures for you to choose from… until you upgraded your level of Technology? And what if there were only certain kinds of items you could make for yourself without additional Skills?” What if there were many kinds of structures – for example, defensive structures like… an auto-crossbow turret? What if you could put down a placeable item, like a Chest in Terraria, but instead of a chest, it were… say… a Lumber Mill? This Lumber Mill could generate “Wood” for you at a steady (if slow) rate. “Thinking in terms of Terraria, I started asking myself questions letting my mind take me to ideas that I thought I would really enjoy seeing… The developer explains the thought process behind this rather neat idea: And a robot! Essentially, Epic Inventor is Terraria mixed with the always fantastic Age of Empires. In essence, they questioned what else they wanted Terraria to do and made a game based around those concepts.ĭespite Epic Inventor having no tie to Inspector Gadget (as much as I would like it to), it does have its own unique charm.

It is, however, based on ideas that the developers sprouted from playing Terraria.

Pixel Prone have emerged victorious it would seem, as their free game Epic Inventor is no longer exclusive to their own website as it is now also available on Desura.Įpic Inventor is not a Terraria clone.