Armatus has everything I love in a videogame: brutal melee finishers, lots of guns, a roguelite loop, demons, a man plucked out of his time and placed into ours, a city in ruins. The boundary between our world and another has been ripped open, and now an ancient warrior—that's you—has to get all those nasty hellspawn back where they belong: England wherever it is they came from.
The PC Gaming Show blessed us with a new trailer for the third-person roguelite, developed by Counterplay Games and published by Fictions, where we see the unnamed warrior tearing through the city streets.
Watching our crusader charge through the urban metropolis with their cape swaying in the breeze while also mag-dumping on alien-looking foes gives the whole thing an almost Destiny aesthetic. You also get access to a nasty purple scythe that you can impale enemies with, and a cool set of powers.
The game's Steam page promises you'll "start strong, end Godly," which is quite the offer. As with any roguelite, you'll die a lot and learn as you go, but it seems Armatus wants you to feel pretty buff right from the jump. You'll start with the scythe and a gun, but find celestial powers like holy fire and the ability to slow time along the way.
This is very welcome news. I love roguelites, but the early game of each run can often feel like a slog until your build comes online, so I'm glad to hear we'll be skipping that grind. The attacks shown off during the trailer look phenomenal, though, so I'm equally excited to get stuck in and start exploding things once I'm deep in a run.
Armatus is launching this winter, so you've still got a while to wait until it comes out, I'm afraid. Wishlist it on Steam now.
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