- Release Date: 24th September 2020
- Developer: Aggro Crab
- Publisher: Team17
- Platform Played: Xbox Series S
- Platforms Available: PC, PS4/5, Xbox One/Series, Switch
I’m not a fan of roguelikes or dungeon crawler games, but I ended up really enjoying this (admittedly with accessibility settings on as I’m awful at games like this). The style and humour makes it a very enjoyable experience.
It’s a future where not-Amazon practically rules the world, and are constantly buying startup companies. You join one of these start up companies and are sent to clean out monsters from other floors – only it turns out the monsters are other failed startup companies.
Each start-up company consists of four floors, three with random rooms and the final with a boss. You gather upgrades (you start off fresh each time), although after you use one enough you can select it as a permanent one (but only one selected at a time). Side quests can be done for other permanent bonuses (such as stealing a random item from a shop).
Pretty much everything is a weapon – the computers, keyboards, pencils, staplers, along with more traditional weapons like crossbows and swords. They all feel satisfying to use and the more mundane items (pencils, styluses) are comically oversized.
The dialogue is also a lot of fun, and even the style of the text boxes (bubbles from a phone messaging service) adds to the wonderful style of the game.
Fun
