



Every playthrough you’ll find new ways to experience familiar environments. It says a lot that Jupiter Hell a turn-based roguelike where mistakes end your entire run can whisk your cautious sensibilities into an unadulterated blood frenzy at the drop. Randomized levels set all over Jupiter’s orbitBlast through procedurally-generated civilian sectors, military space bases and mining colonies on the violent moons of Jupiter. Beat the game to unlock more difficult challenges rather than grinding to make the game easier. Each run you build your character anew, and every unlocked perk can change the way you play. With a subject so sensitive, Millar is careful with it and gives us a delicate story of truth conquering hardship in the most purest form by the end, we are. Meaningful RPG progressionCustomize your character with new weapons, items and abilities gained as you progress through a permadeath-prone hell. Spiritual successor to DOOM RoguelikeJupiter Hell is built by ChaosForge, the team that’s been making top-down, cosmic hell roguelikes since 2002, when DOOM, the Roguelike (later renamed DRL) filled the screens with ASCII-based, gory, explosive action and defined the turn-based shooter genre. As you can imagine, and staying true to Doom, this is about killing demons or anything that gets in our way. Now under a new graphics engine, not so archaic and which aims to emulate the titles of the 90s, it will take us to the moons of Jupiter to experience our own hell. Play with mouse+keyboard, keyboard-only, or gamepad controls. Jupiter Hell is the accumulation of this experience and very good ideas. Controls are immediate and accessible while retaining the back-end depth of a turn-based RPG. In this case, it’s a top-down turn-based shooter akin to X-COM, but set up both. Even so, I do not believe that the game exceeds an MA-13. Jupiter Hell takes on that tried and true method of trading on gaming nostalgia with modern conveniences. It focuses on fast paced ranged combat, while including the standard elements of the genre - procedurally generated levels, character advancement with traits and loot with randomized properties. While the game operates on a grid, the presentation is in semi-realistic 3D. Gibbing enemies with the shotgun at close range, or rockets at any range, is common. Jupiter Hell is a traditional top-down, turn-based roguelike game set in a 90s sci-fi inspired setting. As this game maintains a top-down perspective view, the details are less gruesome. Tactical, turn-based combatBenefit from classic roguelike turns with modern shooter sensibilities and real-time responsiveness. Violence: Again, as Jupiter Hell is inspired by Doom, players should reasonably expect a blood and gore. All to the shine of CRT monitors and the tune of heavy metal! Rip and tear zombies, demons and unmentionable monstrosities, using classic weaponry such as shotguns, chainguns, railguns and the trusty chainsaw. Set on the moons of Jupiter, the game pits a lone space marine against overwhelming demonic forces. Jupiter Hell is a classic, turn-based roguelike set in a 90s flavored sci-fi universe.
