Plague Breaker Preview (Steam Early Access)
For this Plague Breaker Preview, we play a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floor’s boss.
Plague Breaker Preview Pros:
- Pixel art graphics.
- 175.59MB Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – resolution, frame rate limit, zoomed camera, window type, and v – sync.
- Pixel font on/off.
- Gameplay settings – disable cooldown flash, show cooldown flash on weapons, deadzone sliders, disable feedback overlay, show interact prompt, confirm purchases, and show already viewed cutscenes.
- Supports a keyboard.
- You can rebind controls for both keyboard and the controller buttons.
- Local two-player support.
- Five characters with one (warrior) are available initially, each has unique abilities and items.
- Three difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
- Opening tutorial section with ongoing pop-up text as needed.
- 2D view.
- Action-platformer gameplay.
- Shields are used to stop projectiles but the gimmick with it is the shield works as a timed energy so you can’t just hold the button down.
- Fluid grabbing and climbing on ledges animation.
- Auto equips better gear.
- You can see enemy health bars.
- Move around with the stick or d-pad.
- Simple hack-and-slash combat.
- You can have up to two items/abilities equipped at one time.
- Metroidvania elements.
- The game is roguelike based in that you lose everything when you die and restart with the levels and enemies randomized.
- Coins can drop from enemies or within a chest and be used to buy items.
- You can sell-unwanted loot/items.
- Camera zoom affects how much you can see.
- The map fills in as you play.
- Minimap in the corner shows the layout of the current room.
Plague Breaker Preview Cons:
- The mouse cursor stays on the screen when using a controller.
- The menus feel a bit clunky.
- Colors used in the menus can make the reading text really hard.
- A fourth locked-out difficulty shows.
- You cannot interact with anyone by pressing up on the stick and instead, you have to use the d-pad.
- Feels a bit basic in the fact that you seem to get the same weapons and items over and over.
- Boss fights feel a bit cheap and repetitive.
- From what I can see there is no one thing that is kept and carried over to new runs.
- On the map, it shows loot even though you have collected it.
- The fluidity and ease of climbing ledges can be really detrimental.
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Plague Breaker:
Developer: Wozzy Games
Publisher: Wozzy Games
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