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Ampersat

Ampersat

Released: 5/6/2022

Ampersat is a shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing old-school/retro and modern sensibilities. This is a handcrafted adventure with much appeal to fans of Roguelites. A labor of love from a solo developer, Ampersat distills some favorite childhood gaming experiences into a fresh, fun hybrid that sees you killing a lot of monsters, finding a lot of loot, freeing captured letters (um, what?) and growing from a world-weary warrior mage into a powerful smashing/blasting machine! Main Features: - More than 50 handcrafted levels, many with exploration and light puzzles - Optional endless procedural area - Original gameplay elements based around freeing and capturing letters - Flexible character progression with extensive skill tree - Hundreds of unique pieces of loot find, buy, sell and augment - Upgradeable town hub - Tackle stages in the order you choose - 50 unique creature types with individual AI, 10 fiendish bosses

Ampersat is a shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing old-school/retro and modern sensibilities. This is a handcrafted adventure with much appeal to fans of Roguelites. A labor of love from a solo developer, Ampersat distills some favorite childhood gaming experiences into a fresh, fun hybrid that sees you killing a lot of monsters, finding a lot of loot, freeing captured letters (um, what?) and growing from a world-weary warrior mage into a powerful smashing/blasting machine! Main Features: - More than 50 handcrafted levels, many with exploration and light puzzles - Optional endless procedural area - Original gameplay elements based around freeing and capturing letters - Flexible character progression with extensive skill tree - Hundreds of unique pieces of loot find, buy, sell and augment - Upgradeable town hub - Tackle stages in the order you choose - 50 unique creature types with individual AI, 10 fiendish bosses

Ampersat is a shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing old-school/retro and modern sensibilities. This is a handcrafted adventure with much appeal to fans of Roguelites. A labor of love from a solo developer, Ampersat distills some favorite childhood gaming experiences into a fresh, fun hybrid that sees you killing a lot of monsters, finding a lot of loot, freeing captured letters (um, what?) and growing from a world-weary warrior mage into a powerful smashing/blasting machine! Main Features: - More than 50 handcrafted levels, many with exploration and light puzzles - Optional endless procedural area - Original gameplay elements based around freeing and capturing letters - Flexible character progression with extensive skill tree - Hundreds of unique pieces of loot find, buy, sell and augment - Upgradeable town hub - Tackle stages in the order you choose - 50 unique creature types with individual AI, 10 fiendish bosses

Critics
76
Steam
84

Score Breakdown

76.0

Critic Average

1 reviews

84

Steam User Score

776 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-7.8
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
-7.8

Average of both sources

Review Timing

1 launch window (100%)0 late (0%)