$29.99Absolver Build Your Own Fighting Style
Absolver is a martial-arts action game set in the ruins of the Adal Empire, where masked Prospects fight to join the Absolvers. Build your own attack flow, team up with co-op friends to clear ruins for loot, or duel them in arenas. Best bought as something to learn side by side.
Is Absolver worth it?
Absolver is worth it if…
- you want to learn a fighting system together with co-op friends
- you like trading wins in duels and tweaking builds between rounds
- you like short, repeatable co-op sessions in a ruined world
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Build your own fighting flow
You pick a combat style, a weapon, and the attacks in your Combat Deck, then chain them together in four stances. Dodges, parries, and strikes link into a rhythm that is yours alone, and blocking or evading an opponent's move teaches it to you. Tinkering with speed, range, and stamina cost is half the game, and co-op friends give you patient sparring partners to test each draft against.
Clear the ruins side by side
You wander mossy ruins and old altars, fighting roaming warriors and bosses for weapons, gear, and armor. Friends can join you through much of this, so one of you can draw attention while the other lands hits from the side. Encounters with strangers stay uncertain, since another Prospect might help, teach you a move, or attack, which keeps even a quiet walk tense.
Duel friends in the arenas
Dedicated arenas give you a clean place to settle things one on one or in teams, with spoils and rank progress for champions. No wandering enemies, just spacing, stance shifts, and reading the other person's deck. Random matchmaking is quiet now, so this lands best as a planned night with co-op friends: same moves, same lessons, then rematch to see what stuck.
What should co-op friends know?
Can you play the whole thing as a co-op team?
Much of the open ruins can be cleared together, but a few story bosses are solo affairs. Plan on splitting for those fights, then regrouping to keep exploring, sharing gear finds, and practicing what you learned.
How do you learn new moves?
By defending against them. Block, dodge, or parry an attack enough times in a fight and it joins your collection, which makes fighting different enemies and sparring with friends the fastest school there is.
What do mentors and schools add?
You can take on a mentor or join a school to borrow its deck and style, which is useful when your own flow has gaps. It lets a newer Prospect fight with a veteran's toolkit while still building skill stance by stance.
