It all comes together very well, with the player having plenty to think about in each run.
Some of the rooms are full of more enemies and hazards on the road to the boss, others can give you shops, and some can even offer something a bit more lighthearted. The abyss is full of locked rooms and chests, so you’ll often have to decide which doors to open based on a bit of luck and guesswork as you’ll only have a finite amount of keys and crystals to play with. Sometimes you’ll get nothing, other times you’ll get a random buddy to follow you until you die, providing all sorts of useful abilities, like throwing fireballs at up-close enemies. Once you’re in the abyss, you will encounter a ton of different items and abilities which can stack, including the aforementioned masks which can do everything from produce more hearts per kill to improving rate of fire.īut perhaps most interestingly is a pets system where you gather eggs and once you beat all enemies in a room, one of them will hatch. Your only other neat trick is teleporting quickly between rooms, meaning you can easily hop to the shop just before a boss or go looking for some other hidden areas in the dungeon to find extra loot. You can lob a grenade which makes for some neat action moments, though these’ll often be used to clear away debris so you can loot some treasure. You’re quite limited in manoeuvrability, though, with just a jump button to your name and some melee attacks when up close. If you want to add that nifty piano room to your game, you can decide to do just that. You can essentially define the run you want to have with the game, choosing to unlock things that entertain you and you have fun with. Neon Abyss is a twin-stick shooter, then, letting you choose a character and abilities before each run, but interestingly the game shapes to your choices and new rooms can be added via a unique skill tree which you can progress through by spending crystals you pick up during each run. Still, even though Neon Abyss is clearly inspired by just about every roguelike on the market, it also has its own very clear and unique direction with a vibrant aesthetic, and quirky style. But there’s also statues and floating chain monsters. Honestly, some of these bosses look like they’re ripped right out a Persona game with talking television sets and arms flailing about the place. Should be a walk in the park with names like that…. But as a member of the Grim Squad, your job is bigger than just minions, as you’ve also got to take down the New Gods.
You’ll contend against everything from one-eyed bats to floating octopi and some good old spiders to round things out. If you believe an age-old quote from André Berthiaume, we all wear masks.Īnd Neon Abyss, a new roguelike published by Team 17, takes that at a base level, providing an arsenal of spectacular and intriguing face coverings with unique properties for players to wear and use.įalling somewhere between an Enter the Gungeon and Nuclear Throne, Neon Abyss tasks you with various procedurally generated levels of increasing difficulty, each with a mini boss at the end.
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