Grinding different characters to maximize the lethality of a blow is already enough of a time-waster in games like Diablo. Add in the tasty, bite-sized quests and city-building of Stardew Valley, and you have a recipe that could threaten global productivity—and that’s exactly what Lynked: Banner of the Spark does.
Announced on stage during Gamescom Opening Night Live, Linked: Banner of the Spark is the debut game from developer Fuzzybot. It’s basically a mashup of almost every genre that’s currently hot. Medal of Honor veteran and creative director Max Spielberg described it as a “cooperative action hack-and-slash with a few roguelike and city-building elements.”
The director then explained that the studio “blended these ideas together to create this cozy yet highly kinetic action game where players can battle, build, and befriend a crew of cute robots.” The trailer below gives us a taste of this dichotomy, split between evil robot bashing and cute robot catering.
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Lynked is set in the distant future of the year 3000, where the world has not yet become an inhospitable wasteland, but humans are still in danger – probably because of an evil robot army. So, as one of the last remaining humans, you must work with the cuddly robots to build a “sustainable” city while killing the black sheep (and using their remains to further build your settlement).
Lynked: Banner of the Spark may have me constantly striving for better builds and buildings when it hits Steam Early Access on October 22nd.
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