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Abyss Chaser is an Indie, Action Roguelite Dungeon Crawler where you cleave and blast through waves of demons as you explore the demon infested dungeon; fun!

Hack and Blast Demon Slaying Combat:
You start with a sword and a pistol, and each one feels powerful and worth using.
Hit monsters with the sword to build up sword power.
Shoot monsters with the gun to build up gun power.
Once a weapon is charged, it can unleash a powerful attack.
The Sword power up is a powerful charge attack, while the Pistol power-up is rapid fire power shots; nice!
Also, as you shoot enemies, they take more sword damage; very nice.
This creates a nice interplay between the gunplay and the sword play, encouraging you to use both as you battle through the hordes of hell.
Fun!

You get magic too, angelic sigils you lay down to debuff enemies around you.

You have a dash as well, 2 pips, with a 4 second cooldown for both, right at the start.
And in Abyss Chaser, when you dash through enemies, you hurt them!
Take that demon scum!

Destroy Demons, Get Rewards:
As you cut down demons and clear rooms, you collect shards of power.
These provide stacking buffs for your current run.
Might: Sword damage, hp, and stun duration
Focus: Gun damage, reload speed
Occult: Spell power, range, and amulet duration

After clearing a room, you get your reward.
It might be an upgrade, it might be a chest key, it might be a healing potion, but it will be useful.
The upgrades are things like +0.5 to bleed duration, + 50% Vulnerability damage, +1 second to vulnerability duration, handy and useful upgrades like that.

The Souls are your within run currency here, used at shops to buy potions, hp boosts, a map, handy stuff like that.

Demon Dungeons:
The dungeons in Abyss Chaser are made with Procedural Generation, providing a random dungeon for each run, helping to keep the action and run interesting, as you never know exactly what will be in each room.

There are plenty of room types: spell rooms, combat rooms, boss rooms, merchant rooms who wants souls, locked chest rooms, which need a seal breaker key to open, and bike rooms where you can get some healing and supplies.
In the combat rooms, more monsters spawn in as you clear the room, sealing you in until either they or you are dead.
Many of the rooms have destructible barrels with loot in them, fences you can break that block enemy movement, as well as explosive TNT and red plants that you can use to blow enemies apart.
Some rooms have ballista you can break, bear traps, and spikes; the ballista and pillar spikes do not hurt you, but the bear traps do, and root you too, so watch your step!
There are also water rooms, which you can cross with a dash, or shoot across, providing some more interesting terrain to mix the combat up.
And after you clear a room, all the drops fly to you; very nice.

Meta Progression:
As a Roguelite, Abyss Chaser has significant stacking meta progression power you amass in between runs.
Your meta currency is souls, converted to violet gems, used in the HUB screen between runs.
You can unlock:
The Armory
The Garage
The Tattoo Workstation: Uses ink; stacking buffs to main attributes
You also collect Abyss Dust, used in the Garage for bike upgrades.
You can buy some tough guy tonic for a buff for your next run too; ok.
You also unlock a shotgun after clearing the first lvl.
It is very nice.

Note: This is the early demo version of Abyss Chaser, and thus any encountered bugs or other oddness is not representative of the final product.
Still, Abyss Chaser is an Indie, Action Roguelite Dungeon Crawler where you cleave and blast through waves of demons as you explore the demon infested dungeon.
It’s fun, and I had fun playing it.
Abyss Chaser is easily worth a wishlist and a watch.
Watch?

It’s available on itch currently.
https://bitrunnerdev.itch.io/abyss-chaser

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3273740/Abyss_Chaser/
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