YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmpZnUZ1sqE

Emberdrift is a promising new released precision side-scrolling roguelike platformer with an extreme emphasis on speed, fluid movements, and vastly upgraded weapons and abilities. Power sliding, wall jumping, diagonal launching, grappling, and teleportation are just some of the dynamic movement mechanics you'll use to explore the worlds within this game. Each world is its own roguelike run that starts you with a random selection of weapons. It's important to progress quickly through the levels to unlock upgrades, such as choosing between refilling your HP or adopting a pet. Explore vibrant worlds, each offering randomized levels and various shops, mini-games, and challenge rooms in between. With distinct weapons featuring alternative attack modes like the jetpack, grappling hook, and teleporter, the gameplay is constantly evolving. Unlock additional challenging modes for each world to earn cosmetics and experience limitless replayability. This game is super promising. I can't wait to see what else comes in the future.

This game is like Sonic if Sonic chugged 10 energy drinks and whipped out a laser rifle. It's insanely fun to blast through the levels, build up huge combos, and get crazy builds going. There are lots of mechanics here to interact with between the pets system, banner system, and weapon upgrade forges. Plus some secret levels which I haven't been able to explore much beyond the first one. The one complaint I have is that builds can get a little too snowbally leading to destroying bosses extremely quickly later in the game. So hopefully that gets balanced out. Overall highly recommend!

One of the most interesting roguelikes I've seen this year. The game is blisteringly fast, but once you get a hang of the controls you can really start flowing through the levels like a speedrunner. Each run starts you out with a selection of Weapons, which come with their own movement abilities, and Banners, which give bonuses dependent on certain playstyles. As you progress through the game you'll unlock run-specific and permanent upgrades. Definitely recommend this one if you're looking for a fast-paced roguelike!