Conglomerate 451 Released
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Conglomerate 451, RuneHeads and 1C Entertainment’s cyberpunk dungeon crawler with roguelike elements, has left early access and is now live on Steam, priced at $16.99 or your regional equivalent, including a 15% launch week discount. This Steam announcement has the latest patch notes, and this here trailer shows off some gameplay:
Here’s the official description:
Description
Conglomerate 451 is a grid-based, dungeon crawling first-person RPG with roguelike elements set in a cyberpunk world.
You are the CEO of a Special Agency, instructed by the Senate of Conglomerate city to restore the order in sector 451, where corrupted corporations have established their turfs. Thanks to the last constitutional decree, you are allowed to create human clones. Build your own team, manipulate DNA, train your agents, equip them with high-end weapons, choose what cyberlimbs to implant, and send the squad to the field with only one goal: eradicate crime and restore order at any cost.
Key Features
- Manage your resources - Make use of your own personal R&D department to research advanced technology, unlocking new features, powers and options for progression
- More than just body mods - In addition to upgrading weapon and armor proficiencies, augment your body with interchangeable cyber implants that completely change your agent’s skills and utility
- Pain and Trauma system - Even the smallest wounds can have a lasting impact. By taking damage in combat, agents risk generating permanent Traumas that will follow them between missions
- Story or Endless Mode - It's your choice. The Story Mode brings you in a world filled by events and a war with corrupted Corporations and their propaganda. In the Endless Mode, the game will create endless content for you
- Perks and Mutations - Your agents can acquire special skills (Perks) and obtain Mutations
- Drugs and Disorders - buy synthetic drugs to temporarily empower your agents, with the risk that they develop Mental Disorders
- Procedural cyber dungeons - Experience the dungeon crawling you love, mixed with future technology as you take on procedurally-generated dungeons and missions
- If you die in the game... - Each mission could be your last thanks to agent permadeath. Consider every move, because if an agent dies in battle, they will be lost forever
- Hack the world - Enter cyberspace mid-mission and hack your way ahead of the competition to get crucial intel and give yourself the advantage
- Collectables and Achievements - find collectibles around the dungeons and bring them to the Collector to discover the truth
And a message from the developers:
Hey guys,
the day that we all have been waiting for and striving for has finally arrived to our purple-lid doorstep! Conglomerate 451 is here with version 1.0 which concludes its Early Access cycle! We just to like to say couple of things to you - the community.
I'm Matteo - one of the two Runeheads developers. I'm writing this few sentences to say thank you to all players that helped us during these 9 months of Early Access.
It was a crazy journey: a lot of fun, a lot of work (a lot of nights working on the game, also), a lot of ideas that you suggested to us.
It was our first early access, we never did in the past. But we appreciated every single feedback, every single word you wrote us.
Sometimes it was really hard; we had some drawbacks (like when my PC died), but your passion and your enthusiasm for Conglomerate always helped us to keep going.
The game, in May when we started the EA, was a small seed. Now it's a mature title, with a lot of features and ideas.
We really hope you will enjoy it as much we enjoyed chatting with you, listen to your suggestions and your amazing ideas.
So, thank you from both of us: you are breathtaking (uh, can I say that or there is a copyright? :D).
BUT, that's not the end of our journey! It's a start: we want to keep improving the game in the next months. There are other ideas we want to put into it, and more challenges we want to face.
Keep talking to us, giving your ideas: we always will answer you.
So keep in touch: Conglomerate City needs you.
Matteo and Moreno - Runeheads
