Oh dang, they're making Devil Daggers 2.
Celebrating 10 years of an arena shooter designed to kill you within minutes, developer Sorath announced that work on a sequel to Devil Daggers is underway.
"Today seems like a good day to announce that we are working hard on Devil Daggers II," the developer casually said in a Steam post.
Sorath also thanked "the 350,000+ people who played Devil Daggers over the last 10 years" and offered a "special shout out to the 1,472 who reached 500 seconds."
First of all, how has it been 10 years? It feels like eight, tops. Second of all, not even 1,500 people could pull this off? That makes me feel a little better.
Devil Daggers is a brutally simple first-person shooter about surviving escalating hoards of enemies for as long as possible. You've got an endless supply of magic daggers for bullet-hose, shotgun-blast, rocket-jump purposes, but that's basically it. Daggers, your legs, and a stick to bite down on. The goal is to run around a dark room, shoot demons, and survive while trying not to spend too much brain power eyeballing the timer positioned tauntingly at the top of the screen.
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Anyone who's played Devil Daggers will probably tell you that things usually start to go to hell after a few minutes. Nevermind 500 seconds, which is just over eight stonking minutes. You'd be hailed as King Shoot of Gun Mountain just for reaching 300 seconds.
The game does its best to catch you off-guard with enemies of varying sizes and speeds. There are flying skulls, horrible centipedes, and an orb. Eventually your tiny arena becomes so packed that just moving around feels like finding hay in a needle stack. It is a casserole of violence. Devil Dagger is a fabulous test of awareness above all, and it's exciting to hear, out of absolutely nowhere, that there's more on the way.
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