"Regardless of how you shape your personal Void, there’s something slightly off about the underlying sauce." But for all its flexibility, the game is built on some seriously shaky foundations.
Within an hour you have at least 15 distinct arrow types to think about and twice as many grenades. Undungeon is eminently tweakable, overwhelming you with options and items and crafting mechanics from the outset. Then there are a whole host of runes and nodes that can be slotted into your core to create a fine-tuned build that suits your preferred defensive or offensive style of play.
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You can upgrade your brain, skin, legs, heart and intestines for more advanced versions that come with permanent attribute boosts. You’ve also got grenades, consumable items and arrows, all of which can be swapped out for improved versions, or for new weapon types that come with their own attributes and special effects.Īs an undying creature constructed from divine bio-scrap, Void is also customisable on the inside, where it counts. For the most part Undungeon is a top-down, loot-centric action game in which you’re armed with a set of claws for attacking, a rib cage for defensive moves, and a mask that empowers your dash ability. In terms of what you actually do? Well, you’re taking on your standard RPG quests for various locals, tracking down their lost friends, ferrying fertiliser around, and investigating mysterious meat. Everybody you meet has been plucked from some corner of some timeline and looks completely strange and interesting: a mummified cowboy in a wizard hat who will trade you knives for spare brains, a happy guy that’s just a hovering eyeball peering out of a copper porthole surrounded by a thicket of iridescent brambles. Undungeon looks and sounds unbelievably pretty, from the gorgeous pixel art style to the electronic, lo-fi, Ennio Morricone-ish twanging guitar soundtrack, giving the transcendental science-fiction a discordant Western vibe. You’re sent down to the dusty mortal plane to plug everything back in again and reset the multiverse, like an interdimensional BT engineer. Collapsing dimensions are causing no end of trouble, that’s pretty clear, shattering into an infinite number of spinning shards that rain like an exotic meteor shower over a scorched wasteland inhabited by nomadic technomancers and acid-spitting scorpions. The characters, a cast of hovering orbs, corrupted flesh angels and crystal beings, repeatedly try to explain what’s going on, but it never quite sinks in. I’m still not entirely sure what Undungeon is about. Something very complicated has happened to reality, and you’re here to fix it with your swooshing Freddy Kreuger claws and clever dialogue choices. Undungeon is a peculiar action RPG set at the end of the universe, in which you play an immortal herald called Void who has been pieced together by God themselves using a primordial stew of hot organs, conscious essence and wet rib cages. A delirious action RPG set at the end of a dying universe in which time, space and combat mechanics are collapsing in on themselves.
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