Lost Castle 2 Preview (Steam Early Access)

by Jim Smale · July 23, 2024

Lost Castle 2 Preview, is a 2D Beat’em up Rogue-Lite game. Explore abundant treasures and items to enhance yourself, master various weapons to showcase your skills, and challenge powerful monsters to demonstrate your strength. A new adventure is calling for treasure hunters!

Lost Castle 2 Preview Pros:

Smooth HD cartoon graphics.
862.91MB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – resolution, window mode, quality preset, v-sync, half v-sync, and framerate.
Can remap the controls.
Gameplay settings – vibration, show helmet, languages, show player stats, show boss health, show teammate stats, and live streaming mode.
3 save slots.
Action fighter gameplay.
Cartoon minimal animation cutscenes and character interactions.
Character creator – Eyes, face, head, beard, skin, makeup, voice, and preset choices. Name your character.
You have a main hub camp where you can buy weapons, upgrade weapons, pet the animals, speak with other characters, and take on quests.
2.5D game World.
Takes inspiration from games like Castle Crashers.
Initial and replayable training area to learn all about the combat and how it works.
Combat has your typical hack-and-slash attacks but you also have charged attacks, and you can pick up barrels and throw them.
You can pause the game.
Earn loot from enemies and chests.
You can equip new gear instantly or dismantle it on the spot for resources.
Enemies can be picked up and thrown at each other to cause damage.
Many breakable objects in the world.
You can change the direction of attacks at any time even when in the air.
Combo counter.
Multiple route choices, you get an icon on the door which gives you some idea of what to expect.
Dying means you end your run and go back to camp but you do keep collected treasure.
You can buy and upgrade the buildings of the camp.
Three game difficulties and you can set it each time before you start a new run.
Every time you respawn you are the same character but you get different weapons and gear.
Multiple choice encounters and interactions.
After clearing an area you get a loot chest.
Many bits of gear to find from armor to weapons, resources, and even AI partners to help you.
Uses the clear green for good and red for bad text to help with choosing gear.
Every weapon has a special attack that uses MP, you earn MP from attacking or using potions.
The camp does have a couple of random weapons available for free so you can have some say over your starting weapon.
Ethereal crystals can be found in a run and you can use these to buy new gear in Stores, you lose it all upon death but still.
Big boss fights at the end of an area.

Lost Castle 2 Preview Cons:

The game doesn’t have a built-in keyboard (not even on big screen mode) so naming your character still needs a keyboard.
Movement feels sluggish and not as smooth as you would expect. (this is the base rate as obviously, items can change this)
Text in places goes over the top of other text making it hard to read.
The game doesn’t do a great job of telling you the game loop, what to do, the changing of gear, and anything to do with the actual game.
The difficulty is up and down constantly.
Starting new runs early game is repetitive.
It just takes so long to get going and show what makes the game unique.