Chained Beasts Opens To Very Positive Steam Reviews
A co-op roguelike built around a movement penalty rather than movement freedom is holding an 82 percent positive rate across 388 Steam reviews, which is the kind of constraint-driven design the genre has mostly avoided.
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Chained Beasts launched October 16 and reached Very Positive on Steam by October 18, with 388 reviews and 82 percent positive. Featherweight Games built a co-op roguelike for up to four players in which gladiators are linked by chains that restrict movement but can also hook, trip, and bind enemies. Steam users praise the chain constraint and the payoff when ally coordination clicks.
The chains do more than tether players together. They tangle on arena pillars, and a player caught that way cannot move. The same chains can hook an enemy's leg to trip them or wrap around and bind them, so the restriction and the attack share one tool.
Runs carry damage past the fight: characters accumulate wounds in the arena, sometimes losing an eye or fighting through hallucinations, and the strong medicine that heals them carries a high risk of side effects. Fame built over successive battles leads to bosses and arena heroes.
Chained Beasts is on Steam, PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch with cross-play. The Steam release sale price is 1,690 yen, 35 percent off the 2,600 yen list price.
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