Overclock

by beebanco

OVERCLOCK   The corporations need somewhere to test their new hardware and half-baked software, and runners come cheap. You earn credits by living through wave after wave on a proving ground where enemies come in crowds and the arena has its own ways of killing you. Mix modules from three corporations into builds none of them planned for, solo or with up to three friends, in this top-down co-op roguelite.   The Fight Writes the Music   Every shot, dash and explosion feeds into the track as you play, and the more you shoot, the faster and denser the electronic score gets.   Buggy Builds, Patched Bosses   Most modules ship with a bug. Implants are sold as-is and untested, so one of your stats is guaranteed to take a hit until you deal with it. Level a module up in the shop between waves, and at levels III and VI it picks up new mechanics.  Want a bug-free module? You'll have to hunt down a boss for the patch    Corporations   CRYOTEK · Absolute zero tolerance. Cold is control. VOLTA · The city runs on us. So do you. HARDPOINT · Nothing to hack. No chips. No patches. Just recoil.   6 Runners   Ranger. Dual pistols, alternating fire. Good everywhere, best nowhere, and fine with that. Juggernaut. Shotgun from the hip. The plan is simple: get up close and empty both barrels. Netrunner. A fragile hacker with a smart pistol. Aim roughly their way: smart rounds steer themselves, and every hit resets your script cooldowns. Ghost. A sniper in a dark hood. One bullet, three bodies in a row. Don't stand in front of him. Engineer. Turrets and drones do the fighting, and anyone who breaks through the perimeter gets finished off with plasma. Ronin. Dives into the crowd with a monoblade and cuts everything in a wide arc. Survives on regeneration alone. Nothing to reload.   Progression and Endless Mode   When a run is over, you keep the data it earned and spend it in the menu to unlock new modules and runners. Clear all 25 waves and beat five bosses to open Endless Mode, where the run never ends: the deeper you go, the more the image glitches and tears, and the corporations start sending disposal squads to shut you down.