Unfortunately, Dust & Neon feels skewed towards hard even on Normal difficulty, which is compacted further by a distinct lack of variety. It feels pretty good each time, and this combined with weapons that feel impactful makes for a very fun time as you mow through the levels. You hold the left trigger to pop out, aim and shoot. You have a dodge on cooldown but that’s really it.ĭust & Neon does have a fairly decent cover mechanic whereby you’ll automatically duck when near cover. These fights I always found just a little annoying, since your gunslinging cowboy can’t exactly move quickly to avoid projectiles. With each new run you’ll take whatever you’ve managed to unlock and head back out into the world, blasting your way through four distinct(ish) environments to rank up enough to face the area boss. The Keep is your hub, where you return after each mission or death, and can purchase upgrades for your current clone or unlock new weapons and permanent buffs using scavenged Cores. You have pistols, shotguns and sniper rifles, all of which come in randomised colour-coded varieties either in chests or purchased from a vendor in Exile Keep. The story, such as it is, exists to provide some kind of context to why you’re a robotic cowboy in a world that looks like two carnival floats had a collision.Īs a top-down roguelite shooter, Dust & Neon succeeds in providing satisfying shooting and feedback with a small range of guns. The whys and wherefores are a little thin on the ground here. And you’ve been brought back from the dead to help your slightly insane creator rid the West of the robot scourge. You’re a biomechanical clone derived from spare parts and human tissue, with the gaps filled in by rabid rat flesh, apparently. And Dust & Neon would be doing exactly that, if it didn’t fluff the landing just a little. So a game that combines a robot apocalypse with a futuristic Wild West should be ticking all my boxes. And I like a good western, Stetsons, spurs, six-shooters, and all that five-gallon jazz. Zombie, alien, natural disaster, robot, I’m not fussy.
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