Hello! This week under the heading “What to play”, we:
shoot from a minigun and burn enemies with a flamethrower in the simulator of a miner Deep Rock Galactic;
Meet Crucible, an ambitious online shooter from Amazon;
trying in vain to keep up with the chaos of the superhero action The Wonderful 101;
and finally, explore the taiga wasteland in ATOM RPG: Laborograd!
Deep rock galactic
Developer: Ghost Ship Games
Publisher: Coffee Stain Publishing
Platforms: PC
What to play + the best discounts of the week. Deep Rock Galactic, Crucible, The Wonderful 101: Remastered, Atom RPG: Labor
For two years of early access, Deep Rock Galactic managed to become one of the most highly rated (according to users) games on Steam, and now it finally got to the release. In this cooperative shooter, a team of space gnomes is engaged, in general, in the same way as fantasy gnomes - they mine ore. But procedurally generated caverns populated by monsters are full of dangers. Therefore, flamethrowers, miniguns and explosives will go even more often than the good old pick. Moreover, the environment is completely destructible: try not to collapse the ceiling on your head!
Crucible
Developer: Relentless Studios
Publisher: Amazon Games
Platforms: PC
What to play + the best discounts of the week. Deep Rock Galactic, Crucible, The Wonderful 101: Remastered, Atom RPG: Labor
Amazon, despite all its money and capabilities, is just beginning to develop the gaming industry. A few years ago, the corporation announced three projects at once, but, ultimately, one survived until the release - a free shooter called Crucible.
The gameplay as a whole strongly resembles Overwatch, but Amazon clearly decided not to exchange for trifles: judging by the game modes, it is aimed at the widest possible audience. A small royal battle for 16 people, team MOBA battles ... It’s hard to say how the audience will perceive such a salad, but Crucible’s ambitions will not hold.
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
Developer: Platinum Games
Publisher: Platinum Games
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch
What to play + the best discounts of the week. Deep Rock Galactic, Crucible, The Wonderful 101: Remastered, Atom RPG: Labor
If you can’t stand the eastern igroprom in spirit, then you can not even look at The Wonderful 101 remaster - the Japanese again made some kind of game. However, if you like Japanese games in general and the work of Platinum Games in particular, then you can’t pass by.
The Wonderful 101 is the brainchild of Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba, with Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe and Okami behind them. At one time, the game passed by the general public due to exclusivity for Wii U, and it is good that this mistake was corrected at least now. After all, the action turned out to be unusual, even by the standards of Platinum Games! A hundred superheroes are trying to save the Earth from an alien invasion, and you need to manage literally everyone at once. The mummers of the planet, according to all the canons of Super-Sentai, unite now in a huge fist, then into a sword, then into a stern pink whip. Paphos, absurdity, epic - in general, everything is as it should.
ATOM RPG: Laborograd
Developer: AtomTeam
Publisher: AtomTeam
Platforms: PC
What to play + the best discounts of the week. Deep Rock Galactic, Crucible, The Wonderful 101: Remastered, Atom RPG: Labor
Early access to Steam came ATOM RPG Trudograd - an independent addition (and in fact, a sequel) for a step-by-step role-playing game ATOM RPG. We just recently talked about both games in a separate article, but, in short, this is Fallout in Soviet scenery. And very successful. Trudograd in this regard turned out no worse. It can be seen that the developers took into account the experience of the first game: the dialogs are written cleaner, the battle and the role system have become deeper. Instead of endless wastelands and small villages, the players received a giant snowy metropolis. True, now only a small part of it is available - less than a third of a full-fledged game. But the authors promise that in 2020 they will finish everything that remains.