Just one more run.
What would you get if you crossed Dead Cells with Streets of Rage 4? Well, to save you the hassle, we’ll tell you. You get Absolum, a ‘Rogue ‘em Up’ from developers Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks which we recently got the chance to play via a streamed preview build. It takes the slick, stylish, and accessible combat mechanics that you might expect from a classic beat-‘em-up title and adds in unique runs with branching pathways, permanent upgrades, items, and quests.
Trading in the urban environments of Streets of Rage for lush, colourful landscapes that look like they’ve been plucked straight from Tolkien (or, perhaps more aptly, Golden Axe), Absolum sees you take on the role of one of four rebels in a quest to defeat Sun King Azra, an all-powerful entity that rules the fantasy land of Talamh. In the short preview build, we had access to two of the four playable characters: Galandra, an agile sword-wielding fighter and Karl, a brutish dwarf whose rifle lets him damage foes from a distance.
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