Like a skeleton fired out of a dimensional rift, Undungeon‘s eldritch creatures have arrived on Steam. Well, one of them did. A free demo for Laughing Machines’ hack n’ slash n’ loot ’em up launched with a brand new trailer throughout this not-E3 weekend, letting you roam the post-apocalyptic ruins of seven Earths as Void – a ghostly world-hopping “Herald” who by no means fairly left their goth part behind.
Funded on Kickstarter again in 2017, Undungeon is a beautiful cosmic-horror action-RPG set after some actually absurd dimensional shenanigans went down. Seven completely different types of planet Earth have been smashed collectively like multi-coloured play-doh, wiping out humanity and leaving bands of alien weirdos to choose up the items.
The demo places you within the clawed boots of Void. One of the total game’s seven playable “Heralds” – oddball aliens from every of the dimension-smashed Earths – Void is a spooky skeleton man with the flexibility to put mines and carry out a phase-shifting sprint. Opening the demo by crashing face-first into an arid pixel-art desert, I can’t say the intimidation issue holds up – particularly when your man’s getting knackered by tiny bugs.
What follows is a quick grab-bag of Undungeon’s hack n’ slash / RPG mashup, taking fairly extra closely from the latter than I used to be actually anticipating. The dialogue is surprisingly dense from the get-go, instantly letting you unpick the game’s layered worlds. Small discuss and the odd loot drops will often add new areas to am overworld map evocative of the older Fallouts – and, like these, your line within the sand is usually interrupted by probability encounters with mates or foes.
It is fairly beautiful, too – barren pixellated landscapes interrupted by the glitches of a world-that-was, distinct sufficient that it by no means feels an excessive amount of like Hyper Light Drifter. Still not offered on the title, although. Undungeon doesn’t inform me a lot about something, does it?
Undungeon’s playable demo will be picked up free over on Steam proper now. The full factor is eyeing up a launch someday close to the tip of the 12 months.
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