Whimsy, grimdark, and playing? And a roguelike as well?! In my 2025 indie recreation? Eh, go on then. It seems neat. The trailer beneath incorporates a desolate, hellish space referred to as “The Pläins öf Päin” (umlauts mine) inhabited by lone egg fool named ‘eggo’. A curse on the egg fool and his cracked shell, and a curse on the world for permitting this sort of tomfoolery to proliferate unchallenged.
Slots & Daggers is by Friedemann, whose earlier recreation was the Katharine-approved tiny townbuilder. Summerhouse. “After my final recreation, I wished to make one thing radically completely different,” says Friedemann. “One thing sooner, with numbers, fights and goblins!”. Offended caffeinated math goblins, you say? Listed below are another options from Steam.
- Enjoyable slot machine
- Bizarre fantasy world
- Crude drawings of unusual little guys
- Retro visuals
- Crunchy hip hop drum machines
- Addictive arcade gameplay that goes “pling” so much
- Numbers! Fights! Goblins!
“To make this recreation I mixed a whole lot of issues I deeply love – bizarre fantasy worlds, crude drawings of unusual little guys, old skool crunchy hiphop drum machines and addictive arcade video games that go “PLING PLING PLING” as they spit out little cash – with traditional roguelike mechanics,” says Friedemann. In addition they warn that it is a solo venture, and as such “doesn’t provide 80+ hours of content material like video games developed by larger groups.”
As delighted by each the crunchy drum machines and chucklesome weirdos as I’m, I do despair a bit that anybody feels the necessity to avert potential gamer rage by clarifying that their venture would not final so long as a CRPG. This is not a slight on the developer, after all. Going by a pattern of 1 (me), actually everybody who has ever performed a videogame earlier than is a large fool, and you may’t be too cautious. Cannot look ahead to the enraged Steam evaluation at precisely 79 hours of playtime.
