Should you, like me, are principally all the time hungry for an additional fast-paced horde taking pictures roguelike with loopy gadgets and combos to construct, I’ve obtained 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 perhaps some buddies, as certainly one of a set of characters with totally different talents, hopping from one degree to the following finishing randomized goals, defeating bosses, and accumulating loot and expertise used to purchase upgrades. Any given degree has you blasting by means of waves of enemies when you concurrently full goals like discovering keys for bizarre obelisks, staying close to pillars that need to kill you, or taking down just a few key enemies amongst the swarm.
Every run climaxes with showdowns towards large bosses that throw bullet hellish fields of assaults towards you that you will have to dodge as a way to survive.
The prologue—Gatekeeper: Infinity—has a good few characters to get pleasure from in it, although the actual 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 centered on correct automated assaults that would themselves stun, knockback, ignite, and chain into enemies advert nauseum. It was pleasant.
The prologue model has just a few totally different enemy sorts to come across and begins with two totally different characters to check out. There was some restricted selection in what sorts of things you possibly can discover, and that considerably limits the number of cool builds to attempt, however I am not going to guage 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.
You’ll find free demo/prologue on Steam as Gatekeeper: Infinity, and you may also discover Gatekeeper correct on Steam, the place it is listed as releasing within the first a part of 2024.