A New Game is launched Ex Dragon Age writer’s new studio shrugs off a failed Kickstarter, chucks its exorcist take on Slay the Spire right onto Steam – and it’s a cool roguelike with a mana system I don’t think I’ve ever seen is launched.
Ex Dragon Age writer’s new studio shrugs off a failed Kickstarter, chucks its exorcist take on Slay the Spire right onto Steam – and it’s a cool roguelike with a mana system I don’t think I’ve ever seen new features
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Malys is an interesting, inky roguelike card game
Ex Dragon Age writer’s new studio shrugs off a failed Kickstarter, chucks its exorcist take on Slay the Spire right onto Steam – and it’s a cool roguelike with a mana system I don’t think I’ve ever seen new features
Malys is the next game from Stray Gods developer Summerfall Studios, an Australian outfit co-founded and helmed by former Dragon Age writer David Gaider, and it was described as the “last hope to keep the studio alive” when we spoke with Gaider last month. Things took a turn when its Kickstarter campaign failed, but Summerfall’s gone ahead and released the game in Early Access on Steam, and it’s off to a promising start as a novel little roguelike card game.
There’s a lot of Slay the Spire in Malys, especially in its sprawling map of routes and encounters, but the presentation is wholly distinct – inky, graphic novel-style vignettes with heavy, escalating music – and many core card game rules have seen some upheaval.
You play as an exorcist navigating a city of angels and demons, saving victims of possession through turn-based card battles. (To think, all those priests just needed a good Magic deck.) You draft a deck, negotiate battles, hit up merchants, and work toward the mega-demon waiting at the finish line.