I'm getting deja vu, folks, because a first-person PvPvE dungeon-crawling RPG is topping the Steam Next Fest trends. This time it's Dungeonborne, a rather fittingly named riff on last year's Dark and Darker, which has left the door open for a competitor like this by still not being on Steam following a legal spat with Nexon.
So far, Dungeonborne is a fairly familiar extraction RPG. Make a character, choose a class, build a loadout, then pop into an easier solo world or harder group world in search of loot and XP. If you die, whether that's to a monster or a trap or another player, you lose all the stuff you have on you. This frames the genre-defining decision-making that goes into each excursion – what to bring with you, and what to keep in storage for a rainy day, and boy does it rain a lot. If you find some great loot, you can escape using portals which spawn in as a battle royale-style field corrals the lobby into smaller and smaller spaces, further stoking the fires of PvP.
