{"id":23904,"date":"2023-02-01T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/monster-train-devs-new-game-inkbound-reinterprets-hades-and-it-works\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:00:06","slug":"monster-train-devs-new-game-inkbound-reinterprets-hades-and-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/monster-train-devs-new-game-inkbound-reinterprets-hades-and-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Train dev&#8217;s new game Inkbound reinterprets Hades, and it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Inkbound totally gets it. It understands what makes a Roguelike really compelling and exciting. This is the new game from Monster Train developer Shiny Shoe, so perhaps that&#8217;s no surprise &#8211; because if any game can claim to have taken the Slay the Spire formula and made something memorable out of it, something of its own, it&#8217;s Monster Train. Still, it&#8217;s not an easy thing to do. <\/p>\n<p>The magic revolves around, I think, an equation of powerfulness. It&#8217;s in allowing the player to break the game in their favour if they gather the right abilities and upgrades and power-ups, just as you can in Slay the Spire, and just as you can in Hades. It conjures that beautiful moment where you suddenly make light of all the heavy work that&#8217;s come before, and for a glorious moment, nothing seems to be able to touch you. And Inkbound absolutely understands that. I&#8217;ve made myself coo with delight.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned Hades there &#8211; Inkbound is much more like Hades than Slay the Spire. There are no cards but hotbar abilities, and as in Hades, your abilities can be transformed and modified. Also, you&#8217;re in a 3D world and you run around it in real-time. And there are NPCs to talk to with illustrated character portraits. And when you progress from a chamber, you choose which kind of chamber comes next. It&#8217;s very familiar; it&#8217;s almost as if, having &#8216;done&#8217; Slay the Spire, Shiny Shoe looked at the newest popular Roguelike when working out what to do next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/monster-train-devs-new-game-inkbound-reinterprets-hades-and-it-works\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inkbound totally gets it. It understands what makes a Roguelike really compelling and exciting. This is the new game from Monster Train developer Shiny Shoe, so perhaps that&#8217;s no surprise &#8211; because if any game can claim to have taken the Slay the Spire formula and made something memorable out of it, something of its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23905,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[2524,6913,4755],"class_list":["post-23904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-popular","category-ps4","tag-gets","tag-inkbound","tag-totally"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monster Train dev&#039;s new game Inkbound reinterprets Hades, and it works | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Monster Train dev&#039;s new game Inkbound reinterprets Hades, and it works for free, here on XtremeServers. 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