Maintain that shotgun shut, children, as a result of Quasimorphosis is an upcoming roguelike survival horror recreation that blends tactical gun fight with area station dungeon exploration. Set in a post-cyberpunk company future, it is the sort of world you would not wish to have children in: particularly now that somebody’s found summon eldritch demons and all that.
It was first launched as an entire, completed roguelike proof of idea earlier this yr—without cost. That is referred to as Quasimorphosis: Exordium (opens in new tab), and it is nonetheless free, however improvement group MgnmScrptmDvs have teamed up with HypeTrain Digital to publish a fuller model of their recreation.
In it, you will take management of a non-public army contractor on the path of darkish secrets and techniques and “the unforgivable issues humanity has dedicated within the deep, darkish depths of area.” That’ll contain “creatures from a parallel dimension” which might be a “menace to all life.” Basic.
It is a cool sounding idea, the place you will journey across the Photo voltaic system in your PMC’s ship discovering issues like “planetary bases, secret labs, spaceship wreckage, and different factors of curiosity” with the intention to get candy loot: New weapons, new tech, new organic augmentations. These bases are a part of a politics system amongst companies, the place you’ll want to stability how a lot the large canine such as you together with your missions.
What’s neat is that although it is a roguelike with dangerously excessive stakes and randomized hits, the tactical battles are balanced towards the flexibility to repeat your operatives’ reminiscences to a disk. Subsequently precious characters, and their expertise, will be recovered to clone our bodies.
There are tantalizing hints at different mechanics, like ever-shifting battlefields and character specializations. You will discover a few of that within the demo slash proof of idea slash first recreation, Exordium. We’ll see extra when the correct Quasimorphosis releases “quickly.”
You will discover the free recreation slash demo, Quasimorphosis: Exordium (opens in new tab) on Steam, and you’ll find the web page for the sequel slash expanded launch beneath the comparatively less complicated title Quasimorphosis. (opens in new tab)
In case you really feel such as you’ve seen one thing comparable earlier than, that is since you sort of have. Jupiter Hell (opens in new tab) is a a lot less complicated roguelike that mimics Doom reasonably than the advanced construction Quasimorphosis goes for.
