Unhappy Raccoon, the highly anticipated sci-fi roguelike, finally launches
XD Games and Big-Cat Studio have announced that their highly anticipated action sci-fi roguelike Unhappy Raccoon will finally be launching tomorrow, October 8th. After a few beta test runs and numerous other successful tests, the full game will be in players' hands in only a matter of hours.
Unhappy Raccoon has been in the sights of many a roguelike fan for quite some time, pretty much since being announced earlier this year. Since then, there’s been a fair few beta tests that have gotten players really excited for the unique spin on the genre it introduces.
The general vibe of Unhappy Raccoon is pretty darn different, taking players on a spacefaring adventure featuring a cast of loveable animal-based character designs, each with their own unique abilities that you can take into the battlefield. As you blast apart hordes of various enemies, you’ll explore randomly generated levels that hold a ton of different challenges and even more rewards.
Upon beating these levels, you can then invest these rewards into different upgrade paths that will make each run consecutively easier until, if you’re lucky, you’ll reach the true ending and complete the game. Even then, as is the case with a lot of modern roguelikes, that’s when the true game begins and you unlock various challenge modes and new difficulty modifiers.
Unhappy Racoon is especially unique in the fact that your characters and their abilities will also be affected by in-game story choices you make along the way as you play through, changing their views and personalities with each major decision you’re forced to choose. This makes for a good way to immerse yourself within the story, tying in the gameplay and the narrative in one pretty little bow.
If you’re looking for the next big mobile roguelike up there with the likes of Dead Cells or FTL, Unhappy Raccoon might just be your next favourite game. If you’d like to check it out, you can download it tomorrow for free at either of the links below.
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