As We Descend, a fairly stylish-looking upcoming deckbuilder from new studio Field Dragon, will likely be revealed by Espresso Stain, the identical people publishing hits like Valheim and Deep Rock Galactic.
Describing itself as a “roguelike deckbuilder with the soul of a technique sport,” As We Descend has a pleasant aesthetic that appears to mix magic with know-how in a determined, dystopian city-vault that’s humankind’s final outpost on a devastated world.
As We Descend can have a roguelike construction, with every expedition out of the town having you compose your unit of a number of squads of specialist models, with retrieved tech from exterior the vault providing you with extra kinds of models to entry. Fight can have two zones on your models to maneuver between: A ahead protection space and a rear assist zone. The important thing to success will likely be in transferring them between the 2 in response to enemy intents.
The opposite a part of the sport will likely be exploring cityscape of the vault with a view to “make contacts, collect forces, scavenge ruins, and discover helpful sources to realize a bonus over the lethal monsters threatening humanity’s existence.” You may use these sources to beat again assaults by the monstrous enemy, who sort of appear like fantasy creatures crossed with deep sea coral and mineral formations.
Developer Field Dragon was based by two former Stunlock Studios (Battlerite) builders, Kevin Chang and Karl Bergstrom, with senior character and setting artist Aleks Nikonov from Riot Video games.
“It appears like solely yesterday we have been saying that Field Dragon existed, and right here we’re over two years later unveiling what we’ve been crafting for all this time,” stated Kevin Chang, Recreation Director at Field Dragon, in a press launch. “We’re ecstatic to start playtests in our closed beta to assist form the event of our sport. We nonetheless have a variety of work forward of us, however we all know that we will make As We Descend an S-tier roguelike deckbuilder with the assistance of passionate gamers who love this style and are longing for one thing new and massive.”
You’ll find As We Descend on Steam and on its official web site. In case you’re serious about attempting a closed beta, you may join that on the official web site as effectively. It would not but have a launch date.