Beacon
Beacon is a sci-fi themed Action Roguelike. Played as a top-down shooter, you must fight your way through a randomly generated hostile world, all the while trying to locate your emergency distress beacon and…
Beacon is an indie developed by monothetic, released 30 April 2018 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Beacon is
Beacon is an indie game developed by monothetic and released in 2018. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You step out of the confined pod, disorientated and blinking. As your vision clears, a desolate view forms to greet you. The burning wreckage of your ship - your home - lies scattered cruelly across the surface of an alien landscape. You must have come down hard. Picking your way through the remains of the ship, you look for answers, a weapon, a radio. Instead, you find a body. Your body. Well, you think, at least the cloning bay still works. Unfortunately, it seems like that’s about all that does. If you want to get off this planet, you’re going to have to explore it. You need to find equipment. You need to build a beacon. The forests look hostile, but you’ve got your gun. And if the worst…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Beacon launched on 30 April 2018, within three weeks of God of War, God of War (2018), Frostpunk and The Forest.
Released around the same time: God of War, God of War (2018), Frostpunk, The Forest.
Official trailer
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