Developer: Galvanic Games
Steam Deck Compatibility?: Verified
Rrp: £20.99 (Humble and Steam)
This game is a roguelite survival game with a time loop mechanic. With each loop you search for gears to fix the machine that loops time as well as finding materials to improve your situation.
Exploration and experimentation are vital to progress in this game, while you are given a brief tutorial at the start many mechanics are not explained and require you to either stumble upon them or find them through experimentation.
There are a lot of resources you will be collecting for crafting but the main one you’ll need is arcana. You can only get arcana by defeating ‘chaos’ creatures or sealing the rifts that the chaos creatures come through. It’s best to dispatch the chaos creatures as quickly as you can as they destroy the very ground you walk, leaving holes in the map, making navigation much harder.
The roguelite element is not overly harsh, at least not on the ‘gunslinger’ difficulty, which is the default. If you die while out of the tower (which is your base that’s ‘outside’ of time) you are brought back to the tower but lose all the items that were in your backpack and any arcana you have. However, any weapons or ammo you had at the time of death are untouched.
This is one of those games that I’m absolutely certain is great when played with your friends. It definitely works as a single player game and is pretty enjoyable, however I did find myself growing tired of the gameplay loop after a while. I think this is going to be one of the games I keep playing on my Steamdeck for a while.
