Disclaimer: Played close to the end of its Early Access phase.

Do you remember the original Phantasy Star's dungeons? Or maybe Shining In The Darkness? Or that old Windows 98 screensaver of the maze? StarCrawlers is an RPG with optional roguelike elements where the dungeons take on that same first-person perspective through dungeons that only permit travel in cardinal directions. Build up a squad of characters in a futuristic setting and get powers ranging from eldritch tentacles of doom, to covering a screen in explosives and/or explosions, to constantly making enemies trip over the traps you've laid.

Each character has three separate skill trees that you can mix-and-match as you please, and there are 8 characters (of which you can take 4 on any given mission even if you recruit extras) so there's lots of potential for replayability, even before you account for the extra difficulty settings and optional permadeath. The randomized loot is plentiful enough that you generally get good stuff for your characters, and nobody is locked to particular types of equipment so you can't get completely useless equipment.

A fantastic game and a very creative re-imagining of an old genre, updated with modern graphics and the ability to free-look and interact with your environment. Highly recommended, although you may want to wait for the full release - as it stands the Early Access version does not conclude the story, so you just get to the point where you stop getting story missions (but continue to get procedural random ones).

Disclaimer: Played close to the end of its Early Access phase. Do you remember the original Phantasy Star's dungeons? Or maybe Shining In The Darkness? Or that old Windows 98 screensaver of the maze? StarCrawlers is an RPG with optional roguelike elements where the dungeons take on that same first-person perspective through dungeons that only permit travel in cardinal directions. Build up a squad of characters in a futuristic setting and get powers ranging from eldritch tentacles of doom, to covering a screen in explosives and/or explosions, to constantly making enemies trip over the traps you've laid. Each character has three separate skill trees that you can mix-and-match as you please, and there are 8 characters (of which you can take 4 on any given mission even if you recruit extras) so there's lots of potential for replayability, even before you account for the extra difficulty settings and optional permadeath. The randomized loot is plentiful enough that you generally get good stuff for your characters, and nobody is locked to particular types of equipment so you can't get completely useless equipment. A fantastic game and a very creative re-imagining of an old genre, updated with modern graphics and the ability to free-look and interact with your environment. Highly recommended, although you may want to wait for the full release - as it stands the Early Access version does not conclude the story, so you just get to the point where you stop getting story missions (but continue to get procedural random ones).