
Yes, you can play it on PC, but mobile is its original, spiritual home.ĭownload Pixel Dungeon here 68. Do you loot an enemy’s corpse for treasure, and risk it turning into a powerful wraith? Do you try and open that chest, which might actually be a monster in disguise? If you can get over the difficulty, and accept the fact that there’s a heavy dollop of luck at play, you’ll find Pixel Dungeon to be one of the most involved roguelikes around. These risk-reward trade-offs are what make Pixel Dungeon so compelling. You can identify them with rare scrolls, or, if you’re feeling brave, you can just try them out and hope for the best. These might be good – healing or invisibility – or bad, such as vertigo of paralysis.

With each new run, your items and potions are reset, and many start with unidentified properties. If you burst into flames from using an unidentified item, finding water will quench the fire. You can jump into chasms to reach lower floors, at the cost of hit points. You can find seeds, for example, which you can grow into trap-like plants. But by experimenting, you’ll constantly discover new, unexpected mechanics. You’ll defeat ghouls and rats, open chests, buy items from shops, cast spells, find hidden doors and face a boss once every five floors. The premise is uncomplicated enough: as a Warrior, Mage, Rogue or Huntress, your goal is to strike deep into the earth to find an amulet, searching for stairs on each floor you encounter. The Outer Worlds is also available to Game Pass subscribers.Pixel Dungeon looks like a pure and simple roguelike, but once you’re a few floors into its underground dungeons, you’ll release just how deep and complex a game it is. The game is out now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The Outer Worlds will be released for Nintendo Switch on March 6, 2020.

Next: Obsidian Confirms The Outer Worlds DLC For 2020 It's just a shame that The Outer Worlds is being released during a relatively busy time on the Switch, as it's launching on the same day as Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX and is only a few weeks removed from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which is shaping up to be the biggest Switch game during the first half of 2020.

The Outer Worlds can fill the Fallout-shaped hole in the Switch's library. The Switch has yet to receive any Fallout games (outside of Fallout Shelter), which means that fans of the Bethesda style of RPG have had to be satisfied with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The people who purchase the physical edition of the game will receive a box with a code in it, which means that The Outer Worlds is digital only on the Switch. The more frustrating news that has come out about the Nintendo Switch version of The Outer Worlds is that there won't be a proper physical version of the game.
