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EARTH – January 13, 2021 – 30XX, the new Megaroguelike action platformer from Batterystaple Games, follows in the footsteps of its acclaimed predecessor enjoyed by more than 200,000 players on Feb. 17, 2021, by springing into Steam Early Access.
Alongside the classic roguelike Arcade Mode and permadeath-free Mega Mode campaign,
30XX empowers fans to design the levels of their dreams with Maker Mode. Modeled after the tools used to develop the game, this level editor allows the community to craft custom stages and share them with the world.
Includes no-permadeath mode and level editor. Updated on 19 February 2021
Developer Batterystaple Games has announced that 30XX, the sequel to its enjoyable Mega-Man-X-inspired procedural rogue-like 20XX, will enter Steam early access on 17th February.
30XX s predecessor - which released for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch back in 2018 (following around four years of Steam early access development on PC) - is a bit of a treat, transforming Capcom s classic Mega Man X run-and-gun formula into a delightfully replayable procedurally generated platform rogue-like.
Although 20XX s procedural algorithm, which constructs stages by assembling pre-designed level chunks, could be a bit hit and miss, its tight platforming action (featuring a choice of two distinct heroes), entertaining bosses, and a wide array of abilities to keep each run fresh made it easy to overlook the occasional wobble - and it even managed to pack in optional co-op play for s