Indie Developer Unfinished Pixel Reveals Roguelite RPG Blightstone
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Spanish indie developer Unfinished Pixel revealed their new game called Blightstone, a tactical roguelite RPG set to release on Steam early access sometime in 2025.
In Blightstone, players will engage in a grid-free turn-based combat where environmental awareness and preparation are key. In each encounter, party members will have to be strategically positioned to take advantage of their surroundings and overcome the odds against relentless enemy forces and the pervading dark blight.
As the insidious plague spreads across the rifted world during combat and at nightfall, players will need to manage their resources and equipment effectively to survive. While few will emerge victorious in their undertaking, failure will be crucial to your eventual salvation. Earthglass shards gathered from failed runs will fortify the guiding Crystal and strengthen future adventurers, pushing heroes onwards for another chance at victory and freedom.
Use interactable environmental hazards and objects, as well as weather elements to carefully read situations and strategize their every action. The smart use of the environment or weather effects can turn the tides of battle at the last minute!
Choose from a wide range of combat active and passive skills: melee, ranged, area of effect, delayed powerful skills, interruptions, traps, on event triggered skills, skills to summon characters, to control other characters too. These abilities are available to both players and enemies.
Combat statuses like bleeding, poisoned, immobile, stunned, doomed and dozens more.
Environment zones: ponds of water, tall grass to hide (can burn too!), quicksands to sink, holes to throw enemies in, and more!
Random weather modifiers: fog hides the UI of the enemies, rain applies wet to all entities, wind decreases ranged accuracy, etc.
Companions and summonable allies that work on their own, but can be controlled with certain skills.
Environment entities that explode, cause damage on impact or affect the gameplay in emergent ways.
Unfinished Pixel is working on Blightstone with a 17-man studio that was in 2014. Their previous titles were Spy Chameleon, Super Volley Blast, Super Tennis Blast, Super Soccer Blast, showing that Blightstone is the studio’s shift to another genre that gives off the tone and style of Darkest Dungeon.
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