Excerpt: "If you’re new to the genre, the game does an excellent job of holding your hand through it’s optional, but almost required tutorial to teach you the basics of the game’s systems. And there sure are a lot of them. You’ll have to manage your health and a hunger meter, there’s crafting, weapons, and gadgets. It seems daunting, but it’s hardly micromanaging, at least on the early difficulties. While this isn’t a traditional roguelike, it follows the basics: death is permanent, there are RPG elements to increase stats, and requires you to survive as long as possible. Here, the end comes at reaching the Sublevel of 30.
Starting a game proper asks you to pick one of four difficulties: Easy, Medium, Hard, and Insane. Easy is just that, enemies are weak and are sparsely laid out across the randomly generated map. Insane reduces your life expectancy to mere minutes if you’re not qualified. Something unique to the game is the ability to pick a class to start with either the Marine, Engineer, or Scout. These classes, as you’d expect, have different stats to start out with. But after that, you can begin shaping your character to meet the demands of the game and become a hybrid."
Marcus Estrada writes: "Everyone knows about crowdfunding these days. However, most people know of it purely thanks to Kickstarter. Kickstarter is great and all but it’s not the only player in the marketplace! IndieGogo also exists and has seen a variety of successful campaigns over the years. Thanks to its smaller audience there haven’t been nearly as many video game projects, much less released titles just yet. Curious of what you might have missed on the IndieGogo platform? Here’s a list of a handful of fantastic games which have released thanks to them thus far."
iLLGaming writer Ajay Verma writes:
"What is a rogue-like? As steam user jamesbuc puts it.
Essentially its a dungeon crawler with random elements abound from random rooms, random enemies and even random item effects. They are tough as hell and often only for real fanatics.
So sharpen your knifes and stockpile those arrows for humble bundle presents The Humble Roguelike Weekly Sale featuring Six roguelike games . Which offer ridiculous entertainment if you’re into roguelike’s. While this may not cater to the masses, instead focuses on a niche and addicting experience for room based looters. So If you are someone who dislikes permadeath, random levels and cruel difficulty, and a lack of story you might want to skip the pack."
Coolbeans writes, "What began as a space-4X series of the same name, developer Kerberos Productions has now extrapolated the SOTS universe and plunked that into a roguelike dungeon-crawler template. The setting is Arbuda IV, a retirement settlement for hardened veterans uninterested in rest or active military service. A plague has spread wildly across this paradise and has turned humans into flesh-eating monsters. There’s currently no known cure. Hope lies within the Feldspar Mountains: an alien facility told in myths and ghost stories known as ‘The Pit’ may contain something to cure this ravaging disease. The only thing that’s certain is that anyone who’s gone into those mountains has never returned."
Original content from N4G? Coool, I really enjoyed that podcast a couple days ago.
What like about this review is theres no score... Just your take on the game, cool stuff
Yeah, it's a breath of fresh air for me whenever I get the chance to do these officials. Although I do like a scoring system more, there's always that possible... "oversight" in the comments section asking why this score didn't average out with the sub-categories' score, why's this scored higher, yada yada yada. You can check my blogs to see some other games I've covered that you may be interested in.
On topic of the review: Something about this review tells me the reviewer is a very handsome fellow. He may arrange a few letters incorrectly at times, but he's handsome nonetheless. XD
