A dozen roguelike action RPGs show up on Steam every month, but none of them have grabbed me like Cursemark. I play plenty of these games and know how long of a grind it usually takes to feel like you have a satisfying combination of skills that you could call a build. In Cursemark, I was wiping the screen clean of monsters in just 15 minutes.
That's impressive for a game that's not even finished yet. The early access version of Cursemark—which dropped today—already has enough in it to keep me replaying its first few levels, and developer Clyde Games plans on adding a lot more over the next several months.
The studio's previous game, Into the Necrovale, shares some DNA with Cursemark: Pixel art, skeletons, and hundreds of unique items that combine into devastating builds. Action RPG fans who like mowing down waves of monsters without much difficulty seem to love it. From what I can tell, Cursemark is more akin to a soulslike with dodge rolls and tanky enemies, which means it takes a little longer to ramp up your character into a monster-slaying god.
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