If you happen to, like me, are principally at all times hungry for one more fast-paced horde taking pictures roguelike with loopy gadgets and combos to construct, I’ve acquired nice information. Upcoming roguelite shooter Gatekeeper is simply that, and it has a reasonably dang beneficiant free demo slash prologue model out now that is fully-featured sufficient to incorporate cooperative gameplay.
Gatekeeper casts you, and possibly some pals, as considered one of a set of characters with totally different talents, hopping from one degree to the subsequent finishing randomized aims, defeating bosses, and amassing loot and expertise used to purchase upgrades. Any given degree has you blasting by waves of enemies when you concurrently full aims like discovering keys for bizarre obelisks, staying close to pillars that wish to kill you, or taking down a number of key enemies amongst the swarm.
Every run climaxes with showdowns towards enormous bosses that throw bullet hellish fields of assaults towards you that you will have to dodge with the intention to survive.
The prologue—Gatekeeper: Infinity—has a good few characters to get pleasure from in it, although the true delight is in chaining totally different sorts of stacking gadgets and degree up advantages into an unstoppable, damaged monster of a combatant. I constructed a terrifying character in my run at it that targeted on correct computerized assaults that might themselves stun, knockback, ignite, and chain into enemies advert nauseum. It was pleasant.
The prologue model has a number of totally different enemy varieties to come across and begins with two totally different characters to check out. There was some restricted selection in what varieties of things you may discover, and that considerably limits the number of cool builds to strive, however I am not going to evaluate based mostly purely on the demo. I used to be intrigued sufficient to verify the primary recreation was on my Wishlist and adopted for subsequent 12 months’s launch.
Yow will discover free demo/prologue on Steam as Gatekeeper: Infinity, and you too can discover Gatekeeper correct on Steam, the place it is listed as releasing within the first a part of 2024.