MythForce

MythForce seems like the videogame version of all those cartoons you loved as a kid, like He-Man or She-Ra. The game even has its own animated intro and theme song! I was so excited to start playing once I saw this. It was apparent that a lot of time and love went into this intro, so they must have put this much work in, but can it live up?

-  Alana Dunitz

This roguelite has a team of four different mythic characters to play as they feel like they have walked right out of a round of Dungeons & Dragons. Each hero has three different special attacks that they can do besides their basic attack. In the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, you will see icons denoting these and what buttons to hit to use them. If you are playing with a controller, the shoulder buttons will be used for these. If you are more of a keyboard person, you can use the keys along with the mouse.

You don’t unlock any new abilities as you play; instead, you will just find boosts and upgrades to improve the weapons that you already have. However, it is annoying when most of these upgrades are for your secondary weapon, which is way weaker than your main.

The gameplay in MythForce is a very simple loop; all you do is select a character, click embark, and then you are put into a randomly generated selection of rooms. Destroy all the enemies that you can find to unlock the gate, then repeat. You will be able to upgrade your abilities as you explore to increase your stamina recovery or add health regen. At some point, you will run into a boss if you haven’t already fallen to an enemy, and if you successfully defeat them, you will move to the next world. Or if you die, you will have to start all over again from the beginning.