Malys is the next game from Stray Gods developer Summerfall Studios, an Australian outfit co-founded and helmed by former Dragon Age writer David Gaider, and it was described as the "last hope to keep the studio alive" when we spoke with Gaider last month. Things took a turn when its Kickstarter campaign failed, but Summerfall's gone ahead and released the game in Early Access on Steam, and it's off to a promising start as a novel little roguelike card game.
There's a lot of Slay the Spire in Malys, especially in its sprawling map of routes and encounters, but the presentation is wholly distinct – inky, graphic novel-style vignettes with heavy, escalating music – and many core card game rules have seen some upheaval.
