Depth of Extinction – HOF Studios’ sharp turn-based strategy game with roguelike elements – is launching Thursday, September 27 on Steam, GOG, itch.io, and the Humble Store. Inspired by XCOM 2 and FTL: Faster Than Light, the game allows you to handpick fighters from a roster…
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The term “permadeath” is a bit of a red flag for me. Nothing makes me run faster from an otherwise intriguing game, other than maybe zombies or overly simplistic pixel art, than seeing that term tagged on a game in Steam. Or simulators, those usually…
Who doesn’t love an action-RPG with roguelike elements? Vortex: Tears of the Abyss has launched its very own Kickstarter campaign, and is aiming to raise $25,000 by the 7th of November. Why should you back the game? Well, it’s pretty, for a start. It’s a…
Randomized open world co-operative starship simulator with permadeath. That pretty much sums up Pulsar : Lost Colony from Leafy Games. Sure, there’s lots of other details, like the fact that it’s first person, supports Oculus Rift, features five player classes, and features a single player…
A good tactics game is able to take the thinky pain of an RTS and match it with the palatability of a turn based RPG. Lightbulb Crew’s, Othercide manages to burn those synapses just right. With a red, black, and white color palette reminiscent of…
Hive Jump is a cross between a twin-stick shooter and a roguelite. While it doesn’t really excel in either of these genres, Hive Jump is a surprisingly great party game. Originally funded by a Kickstarter, Hive Jump was previously released on Steam and strangely enough WiiU. It has now…
Mittelborg: City of Mages is an interesting game recently released on Steam early access. It bills itself as a rogue-like strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of mages and demons and features a branching story filled with difficult choices and dark consequences. In…
Over the last several years, the gaming subgenre known as the “roguelike” seems to be making quite the comeback. It’s somewhat odd considering the grueling nature, and thus, the often niche appeal many of these titles provide, along with the fact that their roots stretch…
If you’ve found yourself blown away by the new rogue-lite strategy RPG, Into the Breach, you’re not alone. Subset Games’ most recent title has quickly grabbed the attention of many tactical strategy fans. Into the Breach offers fast-paced gameplay, a rewarding difficulty curve, and variety of…
You’ll spend half of your time in Deep Sixed looking at the in-game manual, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The game requires patience and precision to play. It offers all of the tedium associated with the flight simulator genre minus the piloting. Failure after catastrophic…
If you eagerly scrolled to the bottom, you already know the Kickstarter game’s All Walls Must Fall‘s final score; a three. However, there needs to be a conspicuous asterisk added in superscript above that middling number; if post-launch updates continue along the trajectory of the Early…
When I first began playing The Long Dark, the idea of “organic narrative” kept popping into my head. I touched on it in an article about Wintermute, the game’s actual story mode. In that piece, I contested that the need to survive (and the inherent…
Tangledeep is a charming roguelike dungeon crawler from Impact Gameworks with gameplay inspired by games like Diablo and Rogue Legacy and an aesthetic that pays tribute to the 16-bit days of adventure games like Chrono Trigger. It’s a game that wants you to play; it…
If you’re unfamiliar with the Long Dark, it’s important to understand that permadeath is the defining mechanic of the game’s survival experience. It is the falling action of Survival Mode’s dramatic arc, the only true end to one’s personal narrative within the game. The games…
It’s not often I get excited about a menu screen, but gosh darn it; The Behemoth know how to sell you on a game before you’ve even started playing. Water balloons full of color to the dome! Frenetic organ synths that are somehow Gothic and goofy at…
As the Alien franchise has long recognized, the truly ferocious power of sci-fi horror rests in absolute isolation. Feeling utterly cut off from the safety of home and any promise of help. Sunless Skies, Failbetter Games’ successor to their bleak rogue-like Sunless Sea derives its appeal…