It’s been two years since bullet hell roguelike Ira launched in Early Entry. Now it’s nearly able to blast off outta there with Nicalis setting a PC launch date for October 3, 2023. Ira shall be accessible for $19.99 on Steam, Epic Video games Retailer, and GOG. 

Ira places gamers within the position of a woman named Yeon, who channels an historic god’s powers to battle the forces of Chaos. Korean studio ABShot is behind this one, which mixes anime-style artwork with bullet hell capturing and roguelike recreation design. You’ll be able to see a pattern within the PC launch date trailer beneath.

Bringing a bow to a laser combat

If you happen to’re a fan of the bullet hell model of shooters popularized by builders like Toaplan and Cave, you’ll be proper at house on this colourful maze of lasers. Along with godly powers, Yeon wields a bow in her quest to find the scattered remnants of the Ira crystal. Over 150 totally different bows will be discovered all through the sport together with numerous energetic and passive power-ups. Some may say 150+ bows is overkill, however are you able to ever actually have sufficient? There are 150 distinctive relics and 43 bow+relic combo synergies on prime of that, and Yeon can summon 5 Apostles to carry out final expertise and set off passive perks. 

As for the roguelike parts, Ira‘s six levels include procedurally generated maps and weapon drops come at random. Early Entry suggestions appears largely constructive on Steam, the place of us have been offering suggestions since August 31, 2021. We’ll learn the way the ultimate model shapes up quickly.  

Joseph Luster

Joseph has been writing about video games, anime, and films for over 20 years and loves occupied with instruction manuals, discovering obscure platformers, and dreaming up a world the place he really has area (and time) for a retro recreation assortment.

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