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Avil is the last-remaining Sentinel and only he has the power to save humankind. Indie developer Iron Galaxy presents a brand new action-adventure game – Extinction. Extinction places emphasis on high-speed traversal around an interactive environment. Avil must move quickly traversing across rooftops, alongside buildings, and more to save humanity from the encroaching horde, and take down the seemingly endless waves of Ravenii using his powers as a trained Sentinel. And while the swarm of smaller minions may seem like the crisis at hand, there’s always a larger problem on the horizon. Armies of ogres are equipped with their own weapons and armor, requiring Avil to use tactical thinking, the structure of the environment, and even the enemies themselves in order to quickly eliminate the giants before they destroy all that’s left of the world and drive it to extinction. It will take more than raw power to defeat these monstrous foes. Avil needs to use strategy, cunning and quick thinking to permanently take down ogres covered in layers of bone, iron, spikes, thorns, and dark steel. Avil fights these giants in real-time combat, but there’s only one way to stop them permanently, decapitation. However, a Ravenii decked out in spiked armor isn’t going to be easy to take-down as his armor will injure Avil if he comes in contact with it. Therefore, he must lure a spiked Ravenii into smashing the ground, cracking his own armor until it breaks away. Only then can Avil sever a limb, vertically run up the monster’s torso, and make the finishing blow using a Sentinel’s most valuable skill: a powerful rune strike. Extinction comes with a deep story campaign featuring Avil front and center as he desperately rescues countless civilians while taking down massive and brutal opponents. Added to the fray, Extinction laces the action with dynamic side missions maintaining various objectives, earnings upgrades to aid the adventure. Players will need to master Avil's vast array of skills based combat and maneuverability. Avil is an agile protagonist who can quickly travel horizontally and vertically, performing wall runs with the use of a whip as a vault to perform devastating air assaults. Every battle in Extinction is uniquely different from the last and there are tons of battles. Impressively, these epic battles are integrated with fully destructible environments, allowing the us