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It's slower, more contemplative than Hyper Light Drifter - but the boss battles and set pieces strewn cleverly across the randomly-generated dungeons and overworld, through the tech-magic of one-man-band developer Wizard Fu, have the potential to be hugely evocative.

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There is also, of course, the gameplay itself, and although the inspirations are again clear - classic Zelda (a boomerang-style top-hat, blinks, bombs, and of course the special sword are the main backbone of the kit), plus a few modern trappings - Songbringer's combat is still its own.

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Songbringer begins by having you input a six-letter code and with that, the entire world is procedurally generated - the same code will create exactly the same world, but with literally millions of combinations the option to share the world you experience with someone else is completely yours. Hyper Light Drifter is the obvious parallel - gritty synthwave, scorched futurescapes dripping in as much style as they are the ubiquitous three-pixel space-rain, and of course the brooding, could-be-Stephen-King's-Gunslinger protagonist with the big old sword.Р”В«ut despite the rapidly shrinking scope of what can be done within that mini-genre, there is something here. This is the latest addition to the moody, sword-swinging, world-wandering subcategory of indies that is now leaning towards a genre of its own. If there's one word for Songbringer, it's slick. Take it as a starting point for your adventures today, and let us know some of your own personal discoveries in the comments below. Here's a small selection of our personal picks from the show floor, though it's obviously far from a definitive list. We would say that, of course, given that - disclaimer time! - the event's run under the umbrella of our parent company Gamer Network, but look at our faces: we're being completely honest.

Scanner Sombre is currently half-price - Р’Р€4.50 - in the Steam Summer Sale.Happy final day of Rezzed! We've already had a couple of days of fascinating games, insightful talks and general fun times at what's fast becoming our favourite show of the year.

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The final update for Scanner Sombre will be the new virtual reality mode, demonstrated in the video above, before the team moves onto making something new - in addition to continued support for Prison Architect. In other words this can relatively comfortably be chalked up to experience. To continue to keep it going: that's the bread and butter, and it enables us to take risks and do more interesting work that gamers are ready for or are not ready for.' That would be the height of folly, to leave it now. 'What the true stupidity would have been is if we'd stopped working on. We would have been out again on our ear, we wouldn't have any money. 'But in the olden days it would have been. 'We took a punt, it didn't work out for us but it's not the end of the world,' added Mark Morris. 'There's something about the nature of the game itself, how it's very weird looking and very short and a one-time only thing, that made a lot of people pass on it,' he said. It's that fleeting sense of entertainment - a few hours next to Prison Architect's endless replayability - Delay believes might have put people off. We were fond of Scanner Sombre but did say it was 'insubstantial' in our review. Scanner Sombre was built much more quickly than Prison Architect, in around nine months, as a kind of creative palette-cleanser for Introversion. 'It's not the best game we've ever made - we knew it wasn't - and we knew it was niche but we didn't think it was going to be that niche - crazy, crazy, nobody's-interested-in-this-game niche. 'I didn't think that was possible after ,' said Delay in a video chat with other Introversion boss, Mark Morris. It sold, Introversion said, around 6000 copies. But the two-million-plus-sales success of Prison Architect skewed expectations about what Scanner Sombre would sell. Scanner Sombre was released in April and was Introversion's first new game in years, Prison Architect having engulfed the small British studio since 2011. 'It's bombed in a big way,' said Introversion's head game maker, Chris Delay. Eerie, colour-spraying exploration game Scanner Sombre has 'bombed'.

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