A fantastically drawn gothic fantasy roguelike the place you get to play as demons combating hordes of excellent guys? Sign me proper up. During the Nacon Connect stream, Cyanide (makers of Blood Bowl and Styx) simply gave us one other have a look at their upcoming game, Rogue Lords, which is on monitor to launch subsequent yr. Set in a world primarily based on superstitious 17th century England, you play because the Devil who’s returning to Earth to take revenge on his arch-enemy Van Helsing.
Each run of Rogue Lords will take you thru a procedurally-generated world, with the purpose of amassing artefacts that the Devil misplaced a few years in the past in his struggle towards that goody two-shoes demon hunter, Van Helsing.
There appears to be a bunch of superstitious folklore-y issues combined collectively right here – I at all times thought Van Helsing was extra related to vampires reasonably than the precise Devil, nevertheless it appears to be like like there’s gonna be some vamps in Rogue Lords, too. You see, whereas the Devil is technically your fundamental character, you’ll even be controlling “evil disciples”, scary folks like Dracula and Bloody Mary, and utilizing them to struggle towards the forces of excellent.
I completely adore this idea artwork they put up of Bloody Mary on the stream. I do know what I’m going as for Halloween.
As with a variety of roguelikes, fight is turn-based, and every struggle you’ll play as three of the Devil’s aforementioned disciples. They every have a set of distinctive abilities you may select from – Cyanide use Bloody Mary as an instance this, as one in every of her talents permits her to position a mirror behind an enemy, reflecting the injury she offers to that enemy to hit them once more.
The Devil can become involved in fight himself, in fact, primarily permitting you to cheat and get the higher hand to your devoted followers. One instance of that is being able to pause fight just about at any time when to wreck instead of one in every of your disciples, saving them from a killing blow.
The ruler of hell getting upset that one in every of his henchmen is about to die and leaping in entrance of a silver bullet for them appears… opposite to what the Devil is meant to be like. Maybe that’s the purpose, maybe Lucifer is really a giant outdated softie.
Rogue Lords is being developed by Cyanide and Leikir Studio, and is ready to launch in 2021. If you already like what you see, you may wishlist it on Steam proper now.
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