FromSoftware is one of the most influential game developers in recent history, though most games inspired by the studio borrow the ideas of its post-Demon’s Souls output. For dark fantasy RPG Lunacid, however, developer Kira LLC took inspiration from the Japanese studio’s far lesser-known series King’s Field, which first appeared on the PlayStation 1.Despite taking this leftfield approach, Lunacid proved a big hit, racking up a ‘Very Positive’ rating on Steam from over 7,000 Steam reviews. Indeed, Lunacid has been successful enough that it’s getting some DLC, even though its creator, Kira, is confused about the game’s success.In a Steam post, Kira issued an update on the expansion’s progress: “I am still working on the DLC, it’s about 70% done (I feel like it’s been at 70% forever though). I definitely had too big a scope for it, but I have to complete it, even just for my sake.”Kira points out that completing the DLC is currently her main project, briefly apologising for “getting distracted by Halo modding.” She doesn’t provide an estimate for how long that additional 30% will take, but notes that the DLC’s launch will coincide with “a few more rounds of bug fixing that will accompany the base game as well.”While it’s been almost three years since the base version of Lunacid released, Kira has not been idle. Last year she released Lunacid: Tears of the Moon, a free spinoff of the base game built in Sword of Moonlight, a toolkit created by FromSoftware in 2000…
