The roguelike family is about to usher in a brand new member: Ruin of the Reckless. From what I understand, the introductory ritual involves lots of twin-stick mashing, chaos, and (naturally) death. Here's hoping the folks over at Faux-Operative Games make it out relatively unscathed.
Action roguelike title, Ruin of the Reckless, is well on its way to completing the journey from Twinkle in the Developer's Eye to Actual, Real, Video Game. With a late-April release date looming on the horizon, developer Faux Operative is hard at work throwing on some extra polish to their Beta as well as... wait, what's this? LOCAL CO-OP?!
While the game got Greenlit on Steam, development on Ruin of the Reckless isn't done. The two-man development team of Faux-Operative Games launched a Kickstarter campaign a couple weeks back and just hit their funding goal of $10,000 today.
Many of the rogue-lite games we see these days all fall within the boundaries of the "twin-stick shooter" genre. While both Charles Webb and Daniel Crockenberg of Faux-Operative Games are fans of these titles, they wanted to do something a little different with Ruin of the Reckless; they wanted to make a "twin-stick fi...
So many games these days have you crawling through a dungeon to get at some nebulous treasure looking within its depths. But why go down when you go up? Faux-Operative Game's Ruin of the Reckless is a "tower crawler" where you'll fight your way through floor after floor to reach the top and have your wish granted.
