In the event you had been keen on roguelike deck-building RPG Hand Of Destiny and its sequel then you definately could be within the newly revealed superhero ways RPG Capes. It’s in improvement at Spitfire Interactive, a freshly based studio made up of former Hand Of Destiny devs. Not one of the characters within the trailer appear to be carrying their blankets round their shoulders, however it’s value a watch all the identical.
Launching in early 2023, Capes is ready in a metropolis that was taken over by supervillains 15 years in the past. The purpose of the sport is to coach up a brand new technology of rookie heroes and take again the city from the varied nefarious crims. Spitfire say you’ll be capable of mix superhero strikes to take dangerous guys down, whereas transferring round ranges strategically in a turn-based tactical style. It’s a bit harking back to the XCOMs, natch, and likewise sounds eerily just like Katharine’s preview of Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Firaxis’ superhero XCOM-like which was additionally just lately pushed again to an early 2023 launch.
Hand Of Destiny’s creators Defiant Growth had been shuttered in 2019, with founder Morgan Jaffit crediting the closure to the video games market altering too shortly for the corporate to adapt. Spitfire Interactive is made up of key members of Defiant’s former workforce who labored on the Hand Of Destiny sequence, together with Jaffit.
Jaffit beforehand labored on the wonderful and equally superheroic Freedom Power when he entered the trade. I reasonably just like the sound of Capes as a result of it jogs my memory considerably of the ol’ Batman storyline No Man’s Land. Successful territory again from supervillains is one thing I can get behind, and an attention-grabbing idea for a tactical technique sport.
Alec (RPS in peace) turned greater than a bit pissed off along with his character’s masked rival in his Hand Of Destiny evaluate again in 2015, however in any other case thought it was a fairly good sport. “Hand of Destiny’s deepest foundations are compulsion loops,” he mentioned, “knowingly exploiting the human starvation for extra and higher gadgets and numbers and to maintain on cleansing up a map/board/menu till no extra choices stay.”
Capes is earmarked for a 2023 launch on Steam someday between January and March, however no agency particulars past that but. Up, up and away!