MECHBORN, a Unique Roguelike Inspired by '90's Anime, Announced

Greek mythology and '90's mech anime travel unneurotic successful MECHBORN, a caller roguelike deckbuilder from developer Turtle Juice and steadfast Curve Games. The hook is that your mech is your deck, meaning you tin swap retired parts arsenic desired utilizing your cards.

More intriguingly, Turtle Juice says that "every paper played is instantly replaced, forcing players to deliberation ahead, presumption cards strategically, and concatenation aviator abilities to forge mech-pilot synergies and unleash onslaught combos that tin crook the tide of battle." Lead decorator Ernani Rocha said, “With MECHBORN, we wanted to rethink what moment-to-moment strategy feels similar successful a roguelike deckbuilder. The conveyor-belt paper strategy fundamentally changes however players plan, adapt, and presumption themselves each turn.” Check retired the uncover trailer supra and the archetypal screenshots successful the assemblage below.

There are 12 mech pilots with unsocial skills and backgrounds, allowing you to make each kinds of builds during your runs. You're besides escaped to determination and combat anywhere, though substance volition beryllium your constraining assets that indispensable beryllium managed.

MECHBORN volition beryllium disposable connected Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 successful precocious 2026. You tin play the pre-alpha demo close present connected itch.io if you're interested.

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