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SCOURGEBRINGER

Developer Flying Oak Games

Publisher Dear Villagers

Format PC, Xbox One

Origin France

Release TBA

Roguelikes might have spent 30 years as a fairly niche concern but, here at the end of the 2010s, the subgenre is so thriving that even if you only count the action games, you’ll quickly drown in brilliant examples of the form – with most of them adding their own unique twist to the formula. Look at and its destructible scenery, or ’ splicing with Metroidvania isn’t interested in any of that.

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