I was quite taken with MOBA-style action roguelike Shape of Dreams when it dropped a demo during the first Steam Next Fest of the year, and it seems a lot of other people are also loving it now that it's out. Within 24 hours of its Steam launch on September 10, publisher Neowiz, which you may know from the Belle Époque Soulslike Lies of P, says Shape of Dreams sold over 100,000 copies.
Shape of Dreams is essentially a PvE MOBA infused with the randomness and chaos of Risk of Rain. We spoke to the co-founder of developer Lizard Smoothie earlier this year to ask about the vision for the game, and it was basically described as a bunch of League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm nerds getting together and making the roguelike of their dreams. Amusingly, the studio's origin story is very close to Risk of Rain developer Hopoo's: two college students bashing a game together and getting carried away.
