Circuit Overload buries its ship under damage numbers and fusion recipes
A dark, painted megastructure, a neon interface and 36 weapon fusions make this co-op bullet-hell roguelite look busy in the best way.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Somewhere under all the damage numbers in Circuit Overload there is a ship. The busiest screenshot of the lot has a hexagonal guardian with a glowing blue core parked on the left, a cyan shield ring in the middle, and a swarm of red and white drones stamped with 192, 36 and 37 so thickly that the player's interceptor is more rumour than sprite. That guardian is The Gatekeeper, and the objective bar above it says to flank the blue shield. Liraz describes the game as a bullet-hell roguelite with weapon fusions, bosses and online co-op, and the screenshots back up all three at once. The HUD ca...