Minos, a maze-building roguelite about a trap-happy minotaur who's tired of adventurer bull, has a demo out

Get retired of my labyrinth! I'm a a terrifyin' bull-fellow

"That's not a minotaur, that's conscionable a feline with horns," yells 1 of the YouTube commenters connected the uncover trailer of Minos. They mightiness beryllium close with their Monty Python-esque accusation, but careless of however overmuch the maze-building roguelike and its developers Artificer person enactment the feline amongst the Greek mythology-loving pigeons, the demo that's presently retired for it is bully fun.

Announced implicit the play by the devs of Sumerian Six and Showgunners, the premise of Minos is simple, but effective. You play arsenic famed labyrinth designer Daedalus and his pet, the horny guy/minotaur Asterion. Hordes of plucky adventurers with assorted combat styles privation to slay Asterion, and the lone things lasting successful the mode of their waves are squares of maze which you tin usage your prep clip to rearrange and enactment with sneaky traps.

'Oh, truthful it's similar Dungeon Keeper?' said Edwin upon listening to that mentation successful this morning's gathering of the RPS hivemind. Yes, probably, I answered, going somewhat reddish astatine the notation of yet different classical crippled I've yet to get astir to playing for myself. Regardless of my dungeon keeping credentials, I enjoyed my dip into the demo for the presently merchandise dateless Minos.

You commencement disconnected by selecting a enclosure successful the labyrinth, which you'll person to support against 3 oregon 4 waves of would-be-slayers with antithetic warring styles. The archetypal question enters the maze from 1 direction, and indispensable beryllium fixed a way to Asterion's lair within. Naturally, you'll privation to rearrange walls and interruption done ungraded blockages to nonstop them the agelong way, having stuffed the way you're channeling them down afloat of arsenic galore lethal traps and twists arsenic possible. Asterion tin fight, but the game's precise wide that it wants you to bash the lion's stock of your sidesplitting with traps, leaving the comparatively susceptible beast simply to cleanable up immoderate stragglers.

The traps are suitably Tom and Jerry successful nature, a postulation of implements that wouldn't look retired of spot successful Wile E Coyote's bottomless container of ACME tricks. There's a satisfying ping to each backbiter level sheet that tin lone hitch retired the past shuffler successful a group. Flame traps crackle and trigger screams from the sizzling soldiers who rotation connected on their path, gradually burning to death. Balliste snipe atrocious souls connected sight. Lures are mounted successful dormant ends alternatively than connected the designated mounting spots different traps person to beryllium placed on, and volition cleave done warriors who're attracted into straying from the beaten path. There are spikes, saws, Medusa heads and each mode of different day-ruiners waiting successful the wings that I haven't had a accidental to effort yet.

As you advancement successful a run, emblematic roguelikery occurs. Mazes get much analyzable to modify, caller variants of adventurer with antithetic strengths and weaknesses articulation the hunt, and you delve ever deeper into the labyrinth. If Asterion falls, you'll beryllium rocketed backmost to quadrate 1 minus immoderate resources, but having progressed towards upgrades that power things up by unlocking the likes of caller traps and upgrades to the minotaur.

I've yet to truly get into the upgrading woods, but it each works good frankincense far. Minos does look a just spot drier and lacking successful unsocial quality compared to felllow Greek mythology-tinged roguelike Hades, but that's not needfully an issue, much conscionable an reflection that stuck retired to maine having precocious played a clump of Hades 2.

I'd accidental the demo's surely worthy giving a try, and you tin find some it and the wishlist fastener connected Minos' Steam page, if you're truthful inclined. Say hullo to the feline with horns connected my behalf.