At PlayStation Experience, independent developer and publisher, Stormcloud Games, announced Brut@l, a modern re-imagining of the classic ASCII dungeon crawler that fuses old-school gaming with a fresh 3D visual style to create something unique for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system.
Brutal Announcement Trailer:
Choose your hero: Ranger, Mage, Warrior or Amazon then descend into a procedurally generated world constructed entirely from ASCII. Your goal? Reach the 26th floor, vanquish the fearsome Guardian of the Dungeon and claim his crown.
Sound easy? It won’t be. It will be Brut@l.
Craft and enchant weapons, brew and drink strange potions, risk their effects and level up your hero based on the play style that suits you. Most of all, survive for as long as you can as you battle Trolls, Orcs, Rockmonsters, Lycanthorpes and many more in this Brut@l roguelike.
Share the adventure by exploring Brut@l’s dungeon with a friend in local co-op, laying waste to the hordes of enemies that stand between you and floor 26, evoking the nostalgia of all night gaming sessions from years past.
Get creative with Brut@l’s Dungeon Creator, an intuitive editing tool that lets you build, play, share and even die in your very own dungeon.
Frank Arnot, Managing Director of Stormcloud said: “Growing up in the 1980s I developed my love of videogames playing the classic ASCII dungeon crawlers that have influenced a whole generation of roguelikes and role-playing games.
Now, with Brut@l and the power of the PS4, the team at Stormlcoud and myself are delighted to bring the core elements of those ASCII classics to a whole new audience in full 3D with modern lighting and visual effects.”
Brut@l is coming to PlayStation®4 early 2016.