JRT
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One nice new game I tried is still in Early Access, but it's from Supergiant games, the gang who gave us Bastion and Transistor. It's a rougelike game called Hades. It was first released as a timed Epic exclusive but is now on Steam.
You are the son of Hades and want to escape that realm. You start it the palace of Hades, and can interact with figures from Greek myth such as Achilles and Nyx and a few others. You escape and try to survive. There are four major realms, each with several rooms (randomly generated akin to how the Diablo games are). The regular rabble are some made-up monsters inspired from myth--but the end realm bosses are NPCs you encounter are all from classic myth. You gain boons from various Greek deities, which empower your abilities. You eventually unlock other weapons.
Death is considered a part of it--when you die, you instantly transfer back to the Throne room and have to start over. If you find it tough, you can use "God Mode", which is not like the old term--each time you die if this mode is enabled, you get an extra percent damage reduction, which caps at 80%. (There's also a Hell Mode). The immediate goal is to get through the realms up to the surface. If you defeat the final boss--well, somehow you always encounter an accident and go back to the Throne Room of Hades. They get humorous about it -- when it's out of Early Access, you may finally have a proper ending (which I believe is meeting your mother, Persephone). Once you make it through you have the ability to make the game harder and add "Punishments", like up the encounter strengths, weaken your own abilities, etc.
It's a pretty fun game.
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Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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You are the son of Hades and want to escape that realm. You start it the palace of Hades, and can interact with figures from Greek myth such as Achilles and Nyx and a few others. You escape and try to survive. There are four major realms, each with several rooms (randomly generated akin to how the Diablo games are). The regular rabble are some made-up monsters inspired from myth--but the end realm bosses are NPCs you encounter are all from classic myth. You gain boons from various Greek deities, which empower your abilities. You eventually unlock other weapons.
Death is considered a part of it--when you die, you instantly transfer back to the Throne room and have to start over. If you find it tough, you can use "God Mode", which is not like the old term--each time you die if this mode is enabled, you get an extra percent damage reduction, which caps at 80%. (There's also a Hell Mode). The immediate goal is to get through the realms up to the surface. If you defeat the final boss--well, somehow you always encounter an accident and go back to the Throne Room of Hades. They get humorous about it -- when it's out of Early Access, you may finally have a proper ending (which I believe is meeting your mother, Persephone). Once you make it through you have the ability to make the game harder and add "Punishments", like up the encounter strengths, weaken your own abilities, etc.
It's a pretty fun game.