Larva Mortus

Larva Mortus is a 2008 top-down shooter video game developed by independent developer Rake in Grass. The source code of the Torque 2D based game was made available by the developer under non-commercial usage terms in 2009.^[3]

Larva Mortus
Developer(s)	Rake in Grass
Publisher(s)	Meridian4[1]
Designer(s)	Frantisek Chmelar
Programmer(s)	Pavel Tovarys
Artist(s)	Frantisek Chmelar
Composer(s)	Borislav Slavov, Victor Stoyanov
Engine	Torque 2D[2]
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release	13 May 2008
Genre(s)	Top-down shooter, role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Plot

The game is set at the end of the 19th century. It follows an agent who was recruited by a group which specializes on exorcism of various supernatural evil creatures. He is forced to face an evil from ancient times as it plans to capture a powerful artifact of black magic. The artifact was discovered by five adventurers and broken up between them. The agent has to find all pieces before the evil does so.^[4][5]

Gameplay

The player controls a hunter of monsters. Their task is to kill all enemies in a level. There are 30 types of enemies. Missions are randomly generated. There are role-playing elements, such as the player gains experience by killing monsters.^[6][7][8]

Reception

The game received mixed to positive reviews.^[9][10][11]