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Infamous Keepers is a reverse dungeon crawler where you have to survive after mass layoffs and oh no is this a games industry metaphor
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Infamous Keepers is a reverse dungeon crawler where you have to survive after mass layoffs and oh no is this a games industry metaphor

Rock Paper Shotgun·Oisin Kuhnke·about 1 month ago
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Image credit: Goblinz Studio Infamous Keepers, I think, might be a game about the games industry. It's not about making games explicitly, not in the slightest. It is a tower defence roguelite , one where you run a dungeon, with this as the narrative setup, however: "Your employer, the Dungeon Company, has recently gone through massive layoffs, putting their dungeons to the test by closing the portals that connect them… if a team of heroes makes it all the way through, you can kiss your career goodbye." You do have to replace a few words to get back to our reality, but there's certainly a resemblance to the one we live in. Beyond being a metaphor, Infamous Keepers is also a spin-off of Legend of Keepers , which too saw you fending off intrepid heroes from the spoils of your dungeon. Where Legend of Keepers was more of a reverse Darkest Dungeon , Infamous Keepers keeps the management aspect but trades it for some isometric tactical plotting.…

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