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Meritous

Meritous is an independently-made PC game, a cross between a top-view dungeon crawler and a bullet-hell shoot-em-up. In it, you control main character Merit, who travels through an enormous 3000-room…

31 December 2008

Meritous is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Lancer-X/ASCEAI, released 31 December 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Meritous is

Meritous is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Lancer-X/ASCEAI and released in 2008. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Meritous is an independently-made PC game, a cross between a top-view dungeon crawler and a bullet-hell shoot-em-up. In it, you control main character Merit, who travels through an enormous 3000-room labyrinth, the Orcus Dome, in order to find three artifacts called the PSI Keys, and restore them to their proper locations. Although enemies fire copious amounts of bullets at you, you don't shoot back- instead, you have an attack called a PSI Circuit, which you charge up to unleash a shockwave that hits enemies and nullifies their shots. As you charge up the PSI Circuit, target reticules appear on nearby enemies, the circle indicating they're in range, and the cross indicating you've charged…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Meritous launched on 31 December 2008, within three weeks of Spelunky Classic, Skate 2, Crayon Physics Deluxe and Dissidia Final Fantasy.

Released around the same time: Spelunky Classic, Skate 2, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dissidia Final Fantasy.

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When did Meritous come out?
Meritous was released on 31 December 2008 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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