Need to know
What is it? A 1-2 player beat 'em up in the roguelike structure of Hades, with hand-drawn art.
Expect to pay $25
Developers Guard Crush, Supamonks, Dotemu
Publisher Dotemu, Gamirror Games
Reviewed on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, Intel Core i7-10700KF CPU, 32GB RAM, Samsung 870 Evo 4 SSD.
Multiplayer Up to 2-player co-op.
Link Steam
There's surprising rhythm to Absolum's simple combat. When I levy a beat down on a squad of goblins it feels like I'm playing a five-piece drum set. Punch, punch, then elbow into an overhead sword slash, which launches a gnoll off its feet. Then my teammate sprint-leaps into the air, spinning their bow staff to juggle the hyena for another two seconds, setting up my magic sword uppercut finisher. Annihilated.
