Shattered Realms wants you buried in numbers and lightning before the first boss
A dark fantasy roguelite ARPG that judges its own combat by how many damage numbers it can stack on screen at once, for better or worse.
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.
Every screenshot of Shattered Realms looks like the moment just after something has gone very right or very wrong, and you are asked to work out which from the wreckage of numbers left behind. Spellbound Studios is pitching this as a dark fantasy roguelite ARPG, and the images do nothing to argue against that. Isometric camera, corrupted stone corridors lit mostly by the things trying to kill you, a Guardian of Aetherhold standing in the middle of it all looking, frankly, a bit outnumbered. One shot has a fire ring spinning around a character while two separate block numbers hang in the air...