Neath, the Rogue Legacy devs' RPG set in an "irradiated, inverted tower" warped by godly whims, arrives 2026

Get acceptable to "ascend the corrupt citadel to defy the decree of the undivine" successful Cellar Door Games' latest work

"PRAISE NEATH", outcry the developers of Rogue Legacy. "What's Neath?", I inquire politely. It's their caller game, they say, a roguelike RPG with immoderate tactical combat astir an upside-down operation perpetually shifting due to the fact that a deity can't marque up his mind. It's retired adjacent year, they add, earlier their fingers suffer grip connected the ceiling and they clang down from their inverted positions.

"Lead a set of fragile warriors done a colossal, inverted tower, wherever Taboos, the everchanging edicts of a God, warp the laws of reality," reads the commencement of the game's cracking synopsis. The tower's pointy, but stout, with its predisposition meaning that it's hanging alternatively precariously supra a metropolis successful a crater. Think an infernal robo-stalactite. The metropolis has a tavern, for the emotion of each that's roguelikey, won't idiosyncratic deliberation of the ale?

Anyway, my fearfulness of things falling aside, you caput into the operation with your party, wherever gridded conflict rooms await. The bid of turns is ever shifting and the extremity is to deliberation 1 measurement ahead, anticipating enemies' moves. Each tally aims to beryllium similar a classical dungeon-crawl, with the accustomed roguelike twists and turns to support things caller and person you uncover much clues to the acheronian enigma that needs solving.

Cellar Door co-founder and pb programmer Kenny Lee cites Subset Games' mech strategy-fest Into the Breach and committee crippled Mansions of Madness arsenic Neath's inspirations. "Development has taken america acold from our comfortableness zone, moving successful an unfamiliar genre with an aesthetic overmuch darker than what we usually do," helium said. "But we’ve got a batch of caller ideas, from 'engagement locking' to the 'attack resoluteness system', and we’re excited to spot if we tin determination this burgeoning genre successful a full caller direction."

Neath's presently being aimed for a 2026 merchandise connected Steam. Cellar Door are readying immoderate closed betas adjacent year, which you'll beryllium capable to propulsion your sanction successful the chapeau for via the studio's Discord. Here are erstwhile RPSer Ed Thorn's thoughts connected Rogue Legacy 2 if you're successful request of thing to tide you implicit 'til then.