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ArcRunner
ArcRunner is a beautiful Cyberpunk-styled action rogue-lite set in the far future on board a huge space station where the controlling AI has gone insane, and its up to you to traverse the Arc to find and destroy it.
Details
- Released
- April 16, 2023
- Developer
- Trickjump Games Ltd
- Genres
- Fighting · Shooter · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Indie · Arcade
- Publisher
- PQube
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ArcRunner Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
ArcRunner is a brilliant cyberpunk-inspired roguelite that just keeps giving. The art style might not appeal to everybody but the combat mechanics and enemy patterns will appeal to most.
I’d like to say something more original or outstanding about ArcRunner, but in so many ways it’s as generic of a cyberpunk third person roguelite shooter as it gets. Solid visuals, a decent soundtrack, enjoyable but not outstanding gameplay, though impacted by a low variety that becomes evident when grinding through near identical scenarios one after another.
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As it stands, ArcRunner is not a bad game. I don’t think it’s truly dire by any stretch of the imagination, even with the font being kind of awful. But it’s just not a very good game either. It’s fine. And just fine doesn’t get much more than a tepid recommendation. There are a lot of games in this genre, and a lot of those are more fun to play with.
If Cyberpunk 2077 and Returnal made a baby and raised that child in a roller rink from the 1990s, you would have the general vibe of Arc Runner. This 3rd