Upcoming indie shooter Sulfur has you taking roguelike pictures at an ever-shifting labyrinth of beasties, goblins, ghouls, and baddies as a gun-toting priest with a speaking amulet and a drive for revenge. It is a cool cel-shaded mixture of old-school shooter and roguelike with a little bit of platforming thrown in for good measure.
Sulfur’s large twist is that it is not only a go-until-you-die Roguelike: It is secretly an extraction shooter as nicely: You need to abort every run simply earlier than you go dry on well being and ammunition to be able to preserve as a lot loot as doable to spend on the retailers and fill your reserves between runs.
I wasn’t completely positive about that facet till I attempted the demo, which made me understand it is extra compelling than I assumed. Tucking away all these spare molotov cocktails meant one thing actual fairly quick—simply going into a brand new run with an “oh crap” button you saved from the run earlier than feels good.
PC Gamer’s Morgan Park as instantly offered on Sulfur after taking a look at it final yr, and I am fairly nicely intrigued after taking part in the demo. I particularly appreciated the gun-tweaking facet of discovering oddball prolonged magazines, sights, and varied bolt-ons on your weapons that gave bonus results. That and optimizing your man by placing on a swimming fin and in addition a cool sneaker.
Sulfur is developed by Excellent Random and can launch this yr on Steam, which can be the place you’ll be able to strive the demo.