Real-time dungeon generation roguelike Mistrogue: Mist and the Living Dungeons in early access!

Polyscape Inc. located in Tokyo, Japan, is launching a new roguelike action game with living dungeons that transform again and again before your eyes. ‘Mistrogue: Mist and the Living Dungeons’ is currently available on Steam (Windows/Mac) in Early Access ($19.9/£16.50/€19.50). A launch trailer has also been released:

About Mistrogue
This is an ambitious project developed in almost six months by a team of six people. Players can enjoy a variety of play styles thanks to controller support and Steam Deck compatibility. The Early Access version includes three dungeons and will allow players to play the story to completion in Japanese, English and Chinese. The full release is scheduled for Fall 2023. A port for the Nintendo Switch™ is also planned.

In « MISTROGUE: Mist and the Living Dungeons, » you will play as Mist, a treasure hunter who explores living dungeons using a variety of skills and items. The terrain, landmarks, monsters, traps, and everything else inside the living dungeon can suddenly transform before the explorers’ eyes, completely changing the situation in real time. Face the living dungeons by developing your best skill and using the « labyrinth stones » to create a path to the chosen location, while fighting against the constant onslaught of monsters and traps.

The « living dungeons » repeatedly react to Mist’s actions and create gadgets. For example, there may be platforms with enemies or treasure boxes that suddenly appear when you approach them, bridges that collapse when you cross them, ground that moves in all directions, terrain that allows you to climb up and down using elevations, etc. You may fall off the path in some places if you run with all your might, but you can use dodging to roll and get through the place.

Due to the strange powers of living dungeons, Mist’s level is reset every time he enters the dungeon. Therefore, if Mist is defeated during exploration, some items and money obtained during that run will be lost. Dungeon structures are constantly changing, so players should not let their guard down while exploring.

You can use items and change equipment during a fight. Choose your equipment and spellbooks carefully, depending on the situation. However, items and skills have a cooldown time, so you can’t use them continuously in a row. You can gather many enemies in one place, stun them all at once with a spellbook, or use knockdown attacks to knock down enemies.

You can use the « Maze Stone » item or special skills from specific equipment to create retreat paths or knock down strongpoints with the enemies in them, as you see fit. Use the unique aspects of the puzzle freely to get out of the maze.

Mist can equip four types of equipment: weapons, shields, bracelets and rings. Weapons, shields and bracelets have inherent skills. Mix them effectively to increase the synergy between skills over and over again. With this feature, you can advance exploration with your own most powerful builds based on their preferences or the enemies they face, such as an attacker-type build with a high critical rate, a thief-type build specializing in evils and agility, or a tank-type build specializing in defense and healing.

Rings do not confer any skills, but they increase certain parameters. Rings are distributed randomly, so you must find the one that suits you best to optimize it.