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Damocles Gaze

12 minutes to gaze into your soul and go as deep as you can into its landscape - just how far will you go? What will you find? Damocles Gaze is a radically tight roguelite top-down shooter where every run…

28 September 2021

Damocles Gaze is an arcade developed by PUNKCAKE Délicieux, released 28 September 2021 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Damocles Gaze is

Damocles Gaze is an arcade game developed by PUNKCAKE Délicieux and released in 2021. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on SUGAR.

The premise, in the publisher's words

12 minutes to gaze into your soul and go as deep as you can into its landscape - just how far will you go? What will you find? Damocles Gaze is a radically tight roguelite top-down shooter where every run takes 12 minutes. No matter how many times you die, no matter how good or bad you are, the run ends only after the 720 seconds went out.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Damocles Gaze launched on 28 September 2021, within three weeks of Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6 and Death Stranding: Director's Cut.

Released around the same time: Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6, Death Stranding: Director's Cut.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Damocles Gaze come out?
Damocles Gaze was released on 28 September 2021 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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