We played a full hour of Inkbound, a promising new roguelike from the developer of 2020's hit Monster Train.
The measure of a great roguelike is in how much you can absolutely break it. Some of my favorite games in the genre allow me to piece together wildly overpowered builds capable of squashing fierce bosses in a few fell swoops. Based on my first hands-on demo with Inkbound, the upcoming game from Monster Train developer Shiny Shoe, I wager the monsters of its storybook world will fear me as an unstoppable force of nature when the indie title enters early access.
Oops, all crits In Inkbound, you play as a featureless character who rises out of an inky ocean. After a bit of customization, you’re tossed into a hub world from which you can pop into a traditional roguelite run. The basic framework of a run isn’t too different from other games of the genre. You’ll battle enemies, gain upgrades, encounter special events, and more en route to a few sub-bosses and one final big bad.
I was instantly able to pick up that core loop. In an early battle, I carefully weakened a powerful enemy with some slashes before using movement to move behind three enemies that were lined up and kill them all with one shot. That made for a fun enough chess game that requires some smart order-of-operations play, but the action really got cooking as I began to upgrade my attacks.
Though I love those attack upgrades, it’s the game’s passive buffs that turned me into a monster. Players can hold a select number of relics, which grant standard boosts to health and damage. I eventually decided to work my way into a critical hit-focused build, upgrading both my chance of landing one and how much damage it would deal. That quickly began to snowball. Soon, I was stacking enough to give me a nearly 70% chance of landing a critical blow for massive damage.
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