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    PixelJunk Raiders

    Mar 25, 2021 4 minutes

    Publisher/developer Q-Games Format Stadia Release Out now

    With its long-running PixelJunk series, Q-Games has taken familiar genres and imprinted them with its own idiosyncratic personality. Now with its latest entry, developed for Google’s streaming platform, it’s taking a stab at the modern Roguelike. This is something of a change of pace for the Kyoto studio, whose projects are often rooted in retro and arcade nostalgia. That it should seek to break out of its comfort zone is something worth celebrating, but in execution, Raiders is an excursion into new territory that hasn’t entirely paid off.

    An unexplained cosmic anomaly has engulfed the planet Tantal, flooding this normally peaceful desert world with

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