I often found great guns that would last me a whole run early on, at low green or blue rarities. Solid groundwork, but the looting aspect of Arcadegeddon is a tad imbalanced. Equippable Hack upgrades act as Boons do in Hades: incremental but meaningful stat boosts that last as long as your run does. You’ve seen this scale before: blue is good, purple is great, gold is where the magic happens. Weapons abound in breakable crates, occasional enemy drops, and colour-coded chests.
It was not until I decided to explore further that the many roguelike trappings of Arcadegeddon clicked proper. With this simple structure being the focus of the single-player experience, I concentrated on missions to progress in time for embargo. After accomplishing such a task, players can then either continue onwards or end their current run to claim rewards. Plug takes on a mission with one of the gang leaders, then heads into Arcadegeddon to carry the task out. After an initial tutorial, Gilly tasks the player with recruiting various gangs to aid in the arcade’s fight against the FFC. This is to stay true to my experience: I only realised Arcadegeddon was a roguelike five biomes in. First, though, you may find it odd that we’re getting to gameplay five paragraphs in. That’s not to say the action is bad! We’ll get to that. If only the action ramped up quite as well. Bursts of colour are frequent even in greyer biomes, and the music ramps up well with the action. The soundtrack flows between futuristic hip-hop and trap, with some tracks even composed by Illfonic CEO Charles Brungardt, a Grammy winner himself. Character models pop with uniquely androgynous designs, alongside fun cosmetics. Think the 3D cartoonish look of Fortnite or Splatoon, but with more rounded edges and stylised sets.
Arcadegeddon sports a simple but effective aesthetic. I am behind the cover that is RAM.Īnd what a pretty frame it is.
The tale is nothing to get invested in, but it’s a nice framework for gameplay nonetheless. I was pleasantly surprised to see Plug’s quest actually progress between missions, with short cutscenes here and there to further the action. It’s a simple story, but more than expected for a multiplayer-centric title. With his magnum opus on the fritz and a hostile takeover looming, Gilly entrusts Plug with recruiting the local gamer gangs and saving Arcadegeddon. The levels of Arcadegeddon are now littered with FFC goons, hell bent on taking the system over by any means necessary. Luckily, Gilly’s got one last wild game innovation up his sleeve: Arcadegeddon. You play as Plug, a young arcade-goer whose favourite arcade, owned by their Uncle Gilly, is at risk of going under at the hands of the evil Fun Fun Co. Dubbed by the developer as “an ever-evolving multiplayer shooter,” Arcadegeddon is a joyous mishmash of a few tried and tested ideas.
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