A grid based dungeon crawling first person RPG working roguelike elements and all set in a vast cyberpunk world – Conglomerate 451: Overloaded is certainly covering multiple aspects. If you’re tempted by how this mash of genres is able to come together, you’ll find it available to purchase and download right now on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.Â
Priced at £8.39 and coming to Xbox well under the radar, Conglomerate 451: Overloaded from 34BigThings and RuneHeads sees you playing out matters as the CEO of a Special Agency – and you know they are special as they require full capitalisation.Â
You find yourself instructed by the Senate of Conglomerate city to attempt to restore all order to the world, or at least to sector 451 where the most corrupted of corporations have established themselves. It’s going to be a hard task, but it’s one that you won’t have to fight alone.Â
You see, in Conglomerate 451: Overloaded you are able to create human clones, and that means you can whip them out with ease, building up your own team of fighters, messing around with DNA strands, training them, throwing high-end weaponry their way and putting them out into the field with one goal in mind – to eradicate crime and restore order. Okays, so that’s two goals, but with one comes the other.Â
If you hadn’t already guessed, there’s a lot going on with Conglomerate 451: Overloaded now that it has broken out from Steam and hit Xbox. You’ll be found managing resources, unlocking technology, working the perks and mutations lines, running through either a Story or Endless mode, and discovering exactly how each procedurally generated cyber dungeon plays out.Â
With hacking opportunities at the heart of the action, and plenty of hidden secrets to hunt down, if you’re looking for a meaty whack of gaming action, Conglomerate 451: Overloaded on Xbox is sure to provide it.Â
Key features include (deep breath):
- Exclusive contents – unlock the power of the new cyber limbs!
- 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. Enhancements and Disorders – buy enhancements 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.
Sold? Get yourself over to the Xbox Store right now. And if you’re not quite sure if this cyberpunky grid based dungeon crawling first person roguelike RPG is for you, hold tight for our full review.Â
Game Description:
Conglomerate 451: Overloaded is here! Face a cyber world in a grid-based, dungeon crawling first-person RPG with roguelike elements. 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.